Re: Capturing screen data from secondary program

If you are using CA/400 5250 emulation or some other then you should be 
able to use the HLLAPI API's for screen scraping.  Look at the IBM site 
for more info on the Client Access API's

If you're open to commercial options our iSeries 5250 Integrator product 
can probably help.  Takes about 5 minutes to configure a screen for 
scraping. 

We also have offerings that can capture info from a non-5250 Window 
application screen as well. 

Feel free to contact me directly with any questions or if you would like 
more discussion. 

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message: 3
date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:44:56 -0700
from: "Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Capturing screen data from secondary program

If we have a menu option that allows a user to run a program and that 
program displays a code on the screen, is there a way for us to capture 
that 
code without having access to the actual program running?

here is the issue, one of our financial companies is Comdata which has 
provided us with a copy of their software which will generate an express 
code for a monetary advance which we will give to our drivers.  This 
express 
code (comcheck code) is displayed on the screen.  we need to capture this 
and write it to our payroll files so we can ensure that the driver has the 

amount deducted from their paycheck.

Since we do not have access to the underlying code, we cannot modify it to 

write out the information, and I am hoping that there is a way for us to 
capture it from the screen.

Suggestions, comments, or just tell me I'm nuts.


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