Re: Submitting server applications from Windows 95 clients with forms 4.5
From: Richard Goalen <Richard.Goalen_at_btinternet.com>
Date: 1997/09/23
Message-ID: <342771C5.2E10_at_btinternet.com>#1/1
Date: 1997/09/23
Message-ID: <342771C5.2E10_at_btinternet.com>#1/1
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):-
- 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.
- 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