Launching an application from a CSP Page

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Chip Gore · Sep 20, 2022

Hi -

I'm looking for some help in getting an OS level application on my server to startup from a csp page and I'm just missing something.

I have a routine (and I've tried the same code from an instance method, with the same results) that will launch an application at the OS level using the $zf(-100,keywords,program,parms) from a terminal session, but it won't/doesn't seem to work when I call the code from a #server() call from my webpage. I don't know if there is some combination of keywords or perhaps a different version of the $zf() call that should/would work.

I am open to any suggestions at this point.

Product version: IRIS 2021.1

$ZV: IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2021.1 (Build 215U) Wed Jun 9 2021 09:39:22 EDT

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2022-09-20T09:41:32-04:00

Warlin Garcia · Sep 20, 2022

Have you tried "jobbing" the routine from the CSP?

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2022-09-20T11:06:43-04:00

Chip Gore · Sep 20, 2022

Jobbing had no effect. :(

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score 1 · Answer 3 · 2022-09-20T10:27:31-04:00

Does your CSP application have sufficient Call-out Privs? Check the audit log to see if there are any security failures from the #server() call

score 0 · Answer 4 · 2022-09-20T11:14:56-04:00

The #server() call seems to be doing what I expect, it returns a value that I "alert();" and I'm getting that value back, so it's not crashing in there and I'm not seeing anything in any logs :-/

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2022-09-20T11:50:37-04:00

@Chip Gore - if it is returning the value and you get it back, then I don't understand what you mean by "it won't/doesn't seem to work when I call the code from a #server() call from my webpage." What isn't happening resulting in your classification of "not working"?

score 0 · Answer 6 · 2022-10-12T09:29:48-04:00

This is on windows? The windows terminal runs as the desktop user, but the csp page is running as the IRIS superserver which doesn't have access to your windows desktop. If you look in Task Manager you will probably see an entry for your running OS application. You just can't directly interact with it. Windows XP used to show you a popup that would open the alternate desktop, but newer windows versions don't do that anymore.

score 0 · Answer 7 · 2022-10-12T11:41:41-04:00

Are you just calling out to a command-line utility -- like calling PGP to decrypt a file? Or are you trying to launch a GUI application that the user will interact with?