Problem:

The COBOL program can have parameters passed to it as allowed by the CHAINING phrase:

PROCEDURE DIVISION CHAINING PARAM1 PARAM2

Those parameters are passed in the Runtime command line like this:

wrun32 myprogram ABC 123

Which passes “ABC” and “123” for param1 and param2 respectively.

With Thin Client that is done similarly in the acuthin command:

acuthin server:port myalias ABC 123

How is this accomplished in the URL generated for AcuToWeb?

Solution:

The "&aliasArgs=" option may be added to the AcuToWeb URL to pass parameters to the COBOL program.  For example AcuToWeb may generate this URL for the above program:

http://localhost:3000?hostgw=localhost&portgw=8009&alias=myalias

To send the ABC 123 parameters use:

http://localhost:3000?hostgw=localhost&portgw=8009&alias=myalias&aliasArgs=ABC 123

(Note that you can separate multiple parameters with , or a space which the browser will convert to .)