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Re: Feeding an interactive application?

Even though source not provided, you may be able to retrive source, if the vendor contract does not prohibit reverse engineering. Depending on how the prompt screen talks to the program, you may be able to seed the first iteration of the screen with data from another program, do whatever, end program, and repeat for other entry. 

The above is a long shot.
You could have the user with more than one session open. Other session gets the population for the 8 fields. 
User do some kind of cut & paste from one session to another.
Without having access to the RPG source, if you can retrieve the DDS source and rearrange the screen, it may be possible to get economies that way.
Have a situation, in which a user must enter about 8 key fields in a maintenance program to retrieve data that needs to be changed. This is a software vendor-supplied program (its RPG - but no source available).
We can extract the 8 fields the user needs from several databases. The question is...is there a way to "feed" this info to the maintenance program screen? We were thinking maybe using CL to read the extracted data from a file to "populate" the screen...and then have the user take over control and do the required maintenance. We figure we can cut the user's time required to complete this in about half. 

Anybody done this????
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