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

From: Jim Smith <jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/09/23
Message-ID: <8GqrlGAcaAK0Ew+T_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk>#1/1


In article <342771C5.2E10_at_btinternet.com>, Richard Goalen <Richard.Goale n_at_btinternet.com> writes
>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.

It doesn't.

An alternative to the 1st approach is to use database pipes to pass commands from forms to an daemon running on the server

-- 
Jim Smith
Received on Tue Sep 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST

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