On 30.06.2023 08:46, Farley, Peter wrote:
Thanks for the link David, but that seems to be tied intimately to x3270, and I
need it to work with PCOMM.
Also investigating PCOMM HACL (Host Access Class Library) as an alternative, using
VBScript (<*Sigh*>, yet another language to learn).
Judging from
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/personal-communications/15.0?topic=SSEQ5Y_15.0.0/com.ibm.pcomm.doc/books/html/host_access08.html>
there are OLE APIs which should allow you to use the Windows version of ooRexx as it supports OLE.
That is the reason why you can code in ooRexx for MS Excel, MS Word, MS Powerpoint and the like,
just look up the ooRexx samples in "ooRexx\samples\ole\apps" where you would see also samples for
OpenOffice/LibreOffice via OLE.
So looking at the VBA example:
|Dim Str as String Dim autECLConnList as Object Dim Num as Long Set
autECLConnList =
CreateObject("PCOMM.autECLConnList") autECLConnList.Refresh Str =
autECLConnList(1).Name|
try the following in ooRexx:
autoECLConnList = .OleObject~new(|PCOMM.autECLConnList")|
autoECLConnList~Refresh
str = autECLConnList(1)~Name
Does that work for you?
---rony
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]> On Behalf Of
David Crayford
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 11:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Using EHLLAPI from ooRexx
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On 29 Jun 2023, at 10:56 pm, Farley,
Peter<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have sent this question to the ooRexx help list but have not yet seen an
answer. Hoping someone here has been down this path and can help cure my
ignorance.
I have an automation task before me that needs some complex 3270 screen
interactions, so I was hoping to use ooRexx from the company laptop (Windows
10) using the EHLLAPI interface to PCOMM.
I started with a simple logon script to learn the connection/setup
requirements, and after (I thought) successfully executing rxfuncadd for the
EHLLAPI interface, the first actual call to EHLLAPI (for the Connect function)
gets oorexx error 43.1, cannot find routine EHLLAPI, indicating to me that the
rxfuncadd did not really work.
Then it occurred to me to ask how does rxfuncadd know where to find the EHLLAPI
DLL? Is there some environment variable that needs to be set pointing to the
PCOMM directory where the DLL is stored?
There is some old Rexx EHLLAPI interface material in the PCOMM V6 documentation
available on the web, but I now have PCOMM V14 on my machine and it seems that
the Rexx examples have disappeared from the V14 documentation (at least I
didn't find any).
I am a little "lost at sea" here, so I would appreciate any help or RTFM you
can provide. Or better yet a publicly available set of example scripts for EHLLAPI
interactions with PCOMM.
Peter
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