Re: IBM i ACS and EHLLAPI bridge

HI Bryan,

Thats a completely different macro language... the point is that we have hundreds of macro's written in VBScript in IBM i Access for Windows which are no longer supportted in IBM i ACS.

I believe/think that it should be possible to run these VBScripts macro's from within Excel (or maybe another tool) with minimal changes but I can't confirm/get it to work.

Kind regards,
Paul
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: IBM i ACS and EHLLAPI bridge

the ACS 5250 product is "based/similar" on the IBM HOD product.

you may find some macro programming help searching for that. I found:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSS9FA_12.0.0/com.ibm.hod.doc/doc/macro/macro.pdf

bryan

Paul Nicolay wrote on 3/9/2021 2:02 PM:

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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