“I've heard that the mrc-Productivity Series BED version has an easy way for me to paint applications with my own HTML editor.

How can I set that up?”

In April 2004, mrc installed a much-anticipated feature into BED, the mrc-Productivity Series' GUI interface.

From a list of applications, the user can simply click to open a Web/Servlet application's HTML skeleton in their prefered client editor to perform screen painting. No longer does the user need to remember the long directory structure to locate their screen painting.

Just click on the palette icon to paint (See circled icon in image below). This feature is automatically installed with the latest updates for the mrc-Productivity Series and mrc-Lightning.

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The BED editor link logic only requires the following:
1. A mapped drive to the iSeries server.

2. The browser to accept cookies. The 3 values (Mapped Drive Letter, Path, Editor Program) are saved in a cookie on the PC. If the user deletes their cookies, then they will need to re-specify their info.

3. Active X enabled. "Initialize and script Active X controls not marked safe" set to "Enable" or "Prompt" for the security zone. Active X allows the browser to run executables on the client PC. By default, this feature is off, for obvious security considerations.

We need the browser to run the specified .exe on the client PC, hence the need for this. It is possible to specify "zones" where the iSeries is a trusted site and only enable the Active X for the trusted site.

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