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Conference microw::acmsxp

Title:ACMSxp product questions and comments
Notice:Refer to notes 1 through 11 for conference information
Moderator:DUCAT::ROSCOE
Created:Tue Oct 05 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:282
Total number of notes:1134

265.0. "ACMS-tasks and DEC-forms with VB" by NETRIX::"sikkema@mail.dec.com" (Arjan Sikkema & Mike Wiering) Tue Mar 18 1997 13:20

Hi all,

We are creating a new interface for an existing DEC-forms / ACMS program. It 
will run in Visual Basic 4.0. We want to use the ACMS-tasks from the "old"
system, but we don't use DEC-forms anymore. Instead we are creating a
web-based
interface with ASP (Active Server Pages).

Currently the main ACMS-task is started. It will end when the program is
finished. But during this task there is a lot of communication between ACMS
and
DEC-forms performed by this main ACMS-task.

We want to start the main ACMS-task (with Visual Basic) and then "trap" the
communication meant for DEC-forms because we don't use DEC-forms, but we use
Visual Basic. So we want all things happening on the screen to go to Visual
Basic in stead of DEC-forms.

So, all current screen-things:

EXCHANGE WORK
   IS TRANSCEIVE FROM RECORD
   SENDING ...
   RECEIVING ...

will currently go to DEC-forms.

Is there a way to "trap" this from within Visual Basic?

Your help will be appreciated...

Greetings, Mike Wiering & Arjan Sikkema

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265.1wrong notes conferenceCAMINO::ROSCOETue Mar 18 1997 21:598
    This is the ACMSxp notes conference.  Questions concerning ACMS should
    be entered in the clusta::acms notes conference.  It would be possible
    to do what you want using ACMSxp.  Essentially ACMSxp would "front
    end" the task call to the ACMS task.  Ask your question in the ACMS
    notes conference.  If ACMS cannot do what you need it to do come
    back and talk to us.
    
    rich
265.2ACMS or ACMSxpNETRIX::"sikkema@mail.dec.com"Arjan SikkemaWed Mar 19 1997 06:3419
Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

According to my "knowledge" we automatically need ACMSxp because we are using
Windows NT.

I think there's no ACMS for Windows NT and so we will have to use ACMSxp.

And I think the "xp" stands for "cross-platform", and since we want a
Windows NT server to communicate with a VAX, my guess is that we should use
ACMSxp anyway.

Am I right about this or should I read more documentation? :-)
(If it's the last option, can you provide any URL's? :-)

Greetings, Arjan Sikkema

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265.3ACMS Desktop is the answerCAMINO::CARRIEWed Mar 19 1997 12:1916
ACMS Desktop is designed to intercept DECforms calls for a PC based application.

For the solution you have in mind the ACMS Desktop application would run in the
Web server rather than down on the PC or Web client.

The ACMS Desktop engineering group is a part of the ACMSxp group - if you could 
provide some information into the ACMS Desktop notes conference they might be 
able to help you.

We have some development work in progress for ACMSxp that will automate much
of this type of application development so that you will be able to implement
an ACMSxp task group definition and have it compile down into code that will
run in the Microsoft IIS.  This task group would be accessible to the Active
Server pages software through OLE automation.

Ian
265.4xp if TP Monitor is neededMICROW::NEWCOMERThu Mar 27 1997 16:2619
    Re .2
    
    Yes, if you need the TP monitor to run on Windows NT as well as VMS,
    you need ACMSxp.  You can run the ACMS Desktop portion on Windows NT
    if you don't need a TP monitor on Windows NT.
    
    And the URLs are:  www.digital.software/acmsxp/
    			          "        /acms/
    
    Web servers have been successfully integrated with both of these TP
    monitors, you can see demos on an internal web page:
    
    	cscent6.nio.dec.com
    
    Click on the 'middleware' box and you'll see a choice for ACMSxp
    demo.  Also there's an ACMS demo there.  And 'www.thrifty.com' is
    a real application running a web server in front of ACMS.
    
    Eric