Re: Feeding an interactive application?

This can be accomplished with the Virtual Terminal APIs but is not trivial 
if you have not used these APIs in the past. 

Bruce Vining




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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????