Charles,
I would not rush to judgement on this.
*IF* it can script a response to a 3270 screen, say enter part number
and it send the part number to the host and what ever is returned
from the host should be readable and then the script could do its thing.
I have a difficult time with this myself but it probably should be
doable but it may be difficult.
Ed
On Oct 1, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
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
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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.
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