Can Reports 3.0 run a host command?

Can Reports 3.0 run a host command like in Forms 5?
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Hi! Bill
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: Can Reports 3.0 run a host command like in Forms 5?
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can i user host command in pl-sql. if so then tell me how i can.

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User_resU wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to run openVMS host commands via Java using the code listed below, which essentially runs the following host commands, each in turn:
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1. Presumably this represents some sort of character user interface (CUI) which is console based.
finalCommand = new String[3];
finalCommand[0] = "terry :== \"hello\"";
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2. This represents an executable to which you are passing command line arguments.
This isn't a java problem because 1 and 2 are not even close to being the same.
Java won't do anything that you cannot get the application to do itself.
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1. Find a way to run the app such that it takes commands from a file. You put the commands in a file and pass that to exec()
2. Find a way that use stdio (the CUI might represent that but there is no guarantee.) You then use exec() to start the app then use the IO streams to pass the commands to it.
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