RE: Running interactive program on a batch type

The short answer to your question "are there possibilities" seems to be YES,
and I wouldn't think you need MI to do it.

I am not quite sure what you want,
but if you want to submit a program which must run interactive since it
requires workstation input, but is doing so heavy things that it really
ought to be batch,
then I know it can be done, although I don't know the details how to do it.

The interactive program running in batch allocates a work station, but of
course no data appears on the work station. Data required by the program to
be entered from the work station can be taken e.g. from a file. My own guess
(I havn't verified this) is that there might be APIs that can do the trick
of intercepting the data sent to the work station and simulate data being
entered.

If you check a product called Robot/Replay on www.helpsystems.com
you will see that this tool allows batch scheduling and run of interactive
programs.

Regards, Kaare
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-----Original Message-----
From: mi400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:mi400-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of sas
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:13 AM
To: mi400@midrange.com
Subject: [MI400] Running interactive program on a batch type


Dear All ,
Since the Interactive processor is limited :(
Are there any posiblities how to run an interactive program on a batch type
?
Thank you,
Regards,
Sas




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