Re: TNAPI (was Virtual Terminal API's) -- RPG400-L

Albert worked with me via email and was really helpful. We are lucky that
even though he’s retired he checks his email.

I have to code some waits and Dow loops looking for the next screen to
arrive.

So everything is working now. Albert gave me some other things to try and
I’m sending him more logs. If he finds a bug in his API I will give him
access to my IBM I to test.

I remember working with him 10+ years ago when I first tried his API. He’s
still giving great support.

Thanks Albert

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:52 AM Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Yes Albert, thank you. I'm trying :-). I don't know if any other people
go through this but the system people on the other side are uncooperative.
Actually that's too nice. They can be real jerks.

Art

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 9:46 AM Albert York <alfromme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Art. This is Albert.

If you’re not able to get the developer to give you the information that
you requested then try using DSPFFD on the display file. It should give me
the information I need.

Thanks,

Albert

On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I emailed Albert and he responded! That's great. I sent him my logs

and

he agrees what we are seeing is strange. He asked me to get info from

the

developer. Believe it or not the guy isn't cooperative and I doubt I'll
get the info Albert wants.

Art

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:20 AM Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I wonder if I'm having a problem because I am

using

TELNET to go to another system.
I tried changing the TNAPIFUNC to start to the other IP Address but

that

didn't work. I have to look at that some more.

Art

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:43 AM Kevin Bucknum <

Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

I had not used this before, but it looked interesting so I gave it a
try. I was able to get it into our main application and move around
without any major problems. I would have to get deep into something

to

get to a numeric field, so I threw together a small test and it works
for me. I did have to tweak TNAPIFUNC. It is hardcoded to 127.0.0.1

and

the box I am working on doesn't allow unnamed display connections.

This

looks interesting but it looks like I would have to know more about

the

5250 stream to use it for anything productive.

My test - https://code.midrange.com/3cbbfd852b.html

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

-----Original Message-----

From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of

Art

Tostaine, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 6:30 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: TNAPI (was Virtual Terminal API's)

Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
6:34 PM (32 minutes ago)
to RPG
With TNAPI I got through our login screen, typing TELNET to the

other

system, signing on there, and pressing enter a few times, but I

fail

once I get

to the first field in the user program. It's a menu and a 3 digit

numeric.

I tried SendtoLoc and also SendScrn but none of them are putting

003

in the

field.

Here is the log with some stuff removed.

R/T FUNCTIONS
Select: 000

##########################################################
######################
2018-08-07-19.02.05.328 SENT: 003

2018-08-07-19.02.05.355 RECV: 06,22 1 127.0.0.1
c XXX Inc.

Option can not be bl

ank||

I See the 003 being sent but it's not on the screen capture. Looks

like the

Enter is going. But the app says operation can't be blank. If I

runi

it manually I

can enter 003 and press enter and it works.

Thanks, Art

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