Re: IBM i ACS and EHLLAPI bridge

Hi Matt,

Yes, that's the "bridge" I was referring to... and it is installed.

What do you see in the menu Configure, Preferences, Start Options menu of IBM i ACS... is it also greyed out ?

Can you tell me a bit more about "your programs"... how are they written (is this VBScript in Excel or something else ?).

Could you share a piece of code that just connects and sends a few keys, and reads some data back ?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Matt Shea <matt.shea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 22:23
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Subject: RE: IBM i ACS and EHLLAPI bridge

Paul

Have you installed the additional ACS EHLLAPI Package (acshllapi.exe)? It doesn't come in the standard ACS package. Once we installed this, our programs started working again.

https://www-01.ibm.com/marketing/iwm/iwm/web/dispatcher.do?source=swg-ia

HTH.

Matt

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date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 20:02:47 +0000
from: Paul Nicolay <paul.nicolay@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: IBM i ACS and EHLLAPI bridge

Hi,


Can anyone position the EHLLAPI bridge in relation to IBM i ACS (which refers to it on the Configure, Preferences, Start Options menu) as it isn't clear to me.


I'm trying to connect from within Excel using VB Script to the emulator (and I was under the impression that the bridge should support this) to do some basic input/output to the emulator but somehow this doesn't really work (however it detects the emulator is active, so there's a basic link).


The piece of code I have in an Excel macro is...


Dim autECLOIA As Object

Set autECLOIA = CreateObject("PCOMM.autECLOIA") autECLOIA.SetConnectionByName ("A") autECLOIA.WaitForAppAvailable autECLOIA.WaitForInputReady Set autECLOIA = Nothing

.. and runs fine up until the WaitForAppAvailable which waits forever.

Kind regards,
Paul?
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