Re: 5250 screen calls to browser

Joe:

If you are using IBM's Client Access as your 5250 emulator, go to "Edit", then "Preferences" and select "Web browser" from the menu -- then on the next screen you need to fill in the path to use to launch the desired browser. You can click on the "Browse" button to find it. In my case, I use Mozilla Firefox, so I navigated to c:\Program Files then the "Mozilla Firefox" directory, and selected "firefox.exe" -- so the path name inserted looks like:
C:\Program files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

To test it, on a 5250 screen, type "http://www.midrange.com"; on the command line and then click on this with the mouse.

So, just include any desired "URL" as a literal on the screen, (or it can be a dynamically displayed value stored in a table, and displayed in an output field on the screen, etc.) -- and IBM's Client Access 5250 emulator will let you click on it.

(To test this, you can just create a little DDS menu with SDA ...)

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 7/16/2015 1:43 PM, Joe W Holt wrote:

Anyone know how, if possible, to have a green screen make a call to the
system browser and passing a url supplied by the display?

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Regards,
Joe W Holt
Sr Programmer/Developer
Jack Onofrio Dog Shows, LLC
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