Re: Submitting server applications from Windows 95 clients with forms 4.5

Lorne Bakanec wrote:
>
> Looking for tips and advice on the following problem.
> We are developing forms for our windows 95 PCs
> which require submitting some
> cobol applications on our VMS server (which has our
> oracle database v7.3) I am looking for ideas on how
> I might implement this so that users would not
> require logging into the server separately and
> submitting their cobol applications
> to reply via e-mail remove NOSPAM from my address

I've done this in two ways before now (using unix server):-

1. Set up a table on the server to contain parameters to be passed to the cobol application. Use the form to insert values onto the table. On the server have a 'daemon' type application which every so often looks at the table and if it sees any unprocessed records sets off the cobol application using the given parameters.
2. Use the forms host command to execute a remote shell - not sure if this works with VMS.

Can look up the details later if you want

Good luck

Richard Goalen Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST