Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last
40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT.
Twice I have been called in at 0000 something in the morning because
some IDIOT thought it was a "good" idea. Not only didn't they tell
anybody they were buying some product that did it they never thought
something would change. 20 or so years ago we went from TCAM to VTAM
and actually had two "applications" die one of the people claimed it
was my fault (he had signed off on the change request no less). One
presented such a security exposure that when I found out I just went
to the auditor and let me have a run at the people. Nothing gets
people motivated more than a visit from an IRATE auditor with a
security exposure. I just let the auditor go at them for a couple of
weeks as the vendor who wrote the screen scraping software was no
longer to be found. I had a good laugh at that one. The people were
almost traumatized (good for them). Before they went out and bought a
replacement I had the auditor pass me the manuals under the table and
found issues with the solution. They had to find another solution.
Mean while they had to manually login and programmers had to monitor
the beast as the application was reasonably important.
The auditor thanked me privately and I continued to pass him jewels
like that it made him happy and he looked more important to the
powers that be,
Ed
On May 21, 2012, at 4:39 PM, zMan wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Longnecker, Dennis <
[email protected]> wrote:
Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA
side
for screen scraping TN3270 applications. Last year, because of
performance
problems, we switched from IBM Hats to a different JAVA based screen
scraping product four WebSphere screen scraping. Recently we ran
into
some application issues, and after over a month of e-mail and
telephone
calls for support and no response, we decided we better switch it
out.
What might people be using out there for TN3270 screen scraping on
their
java applications?
Don't do it, it hurts...
Seriously, it's a major pain, and very fragile.
No, I'm not answering your question, just suggesting that you're
headed for
madness in that direction...
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