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I'm 100% in agreement with Scott's take on the Open Access vs screen scraper differences with one small exception. The comment below "no way you can do it" is true in a limited sense but in fact some of the screen scrapers out there can in fact handle larger size subfiles than those that 5250 can support. They do so by running a script under the covers that effectively presses page down/up and buffers the responses. I'm not sure of the exact mechanics but I have seen it demonstrated.
I still think that OA based handlers, such as the one Scott's company offers, are _much_ better solutions - just thought as someone with no vendor affiliation I would comment before a vendor war broke out <grin>.
On 2013-10-07, at 11:28 PM, Scott Klement <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suppose you want to create a grid (more web-like replacement for a
subfile) that has 50 rows? Since a screen-scraper communicates by
outputting a 132x27 screen, and then interpreting it on the fly, there's
no way. Since a subfile can't have 50 rows, there's no way you can do
it in a screen scraper.
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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