Vista is a wonderful product but I don't think it is able to query a database.
I just searched the Help and got zero hits on SQL or database, and the one hit on query was about querying its own options settings. You can read or write a sequential file from Vista. If you could get the data from your database to a flat file you might be able to make it work. Its scripting language appears to be "self-contained" with no way to break out of the Vista sandbox. You really need a scripting language that either supported database queries directly, or allowed you to escape out to a .NET language or something like that. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting On 2013-10-01 12:25, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > We currently have E-Term for IBM from DCSi. I personally don't like it and really am open to any emulator. A few of use (myself included) have Attachmate Reflection for IBM. It seems to have several options, one being a .NET API. Without really knowing about it it seems like that might do the trick. I guess I'm wondering in general what type of "interfaces" people have written and what emulator and API was used? I've never used E-Term, but I have PCOMM and Vista TN3270 on my machine, and both offer scripting support. Our relatively old version of PCOMM supports the use of VBScript, and Vista has its won macro language. Passport PC to Host also offers macro support. I haven't specifically checked the macro/scripting support of any of the products to determine whether they would be able to query a database and return a result to the macro/script. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
