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Bruce,decisions...
I gather that the virtual terminal APIs enabled you to streamline an
interactive process that lacked source code by perhaps reducing the
number of inputs or steps for users to complete. I'd like Booth to
respond to how well that might fit to his situation. Based on the
little he shared, my interpretation was that the organization is
looking to provide a web interface for interactive users, who
otherwise wouldn't need IBM i user profiles.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:39 PM Bruce Vining <bruce.vining@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I do not know anywhere near enough about Booths situation to give anawkward
opinion one way or the other. I do know that several years ago a
company contracted with me to automate a process that was
interactive only. They did not have the source for the application,
there were no APIs available to bypass the interactive application
processing, and they were, at
times in the day/night/week, having to get management (well,have
authorized personnel anyway) to sign on to the system and run
through a few screens selecting this and that, removing items, and
the like which was a basic pain for productivity.
At their request I wrote a RPG program (no Java, no webfacing, no
communications at all other than to the application) to simply drive
that application as if the program was an authorized user. The
program did
access to various tables to control what it did in terms of "fillingfairly
out various application panels" in a script like fashion. Using
virtual terminal APIs did mean getting to know 5250 data streams (at
least to the extent of how the application presented and received
data), but it didn't take that long to accomplish (OK, and I had
worked with 5250 data streams in the distant past). Whether this
approach might be practical here, I don't know. It could be if what
the users currently need to "do" is
well understood, the data they provide is currently available (or
can be made available) to the program, and there aren't a ton of
errors in the data causing the users to really make interactive
that
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 10:24 PM Jack Woehr <
jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If you can pop a java window, you can pop TN5250J with a macro
file
5250can be dynamically generated and takes the user to the Yes/No prompt.wrote:
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 2:13 PM Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 10:53 PM Booth Martin
<booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
on a
The steps before opening a 5250 session are not on 5250. They
are
web page.
From my perspective, the only thing that opens 5250 sessions is
a
receivedemulator (a program that handles 5250 data streams).
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