Re: Scripted iSeries TELNET

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The virtual terminal APIs documented at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/apis/vt1a.htm

With these APIs, and a knowledge of 5250 data stream, you can have an
application program do anything a user might do. In my applications I
generally provide an exit point where the user can easily alter the behavior
of the "programmed user" as different situations arise. The exit point is
very useful when automating "work with" functions -- I provide a recommended
default to the exit program and the program can either OK my recommendation
or override it based on it's own logic (which knows nothing of the APIs or
5250, just the business logic of what is called for).

Bruce
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Cool!  So what was the technique, Bruce?
>
> Dennis Lovelady
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> weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
> and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons."
>        -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
>
>
> > It's not as straight forward as with FTP, but to answer your question -
> > -
> > Yes, you can script a Telnet client session, on the i, from an
> > application
> > program. I have done this in the past for various companies --
> > scripting
> > Telnet sessions in some cases, system operator interactive scripting in
> > other cases (where no CL command interface existed to automate the
> > operation).
> >
> > Bruce Vining
> > http://www.brucevining.com/
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Mike Cunningham
> > <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > > Is there secret way to send scripted commands to TELNET like I can to
> > FTP?
> > >  I want to start a telnet session to a windows server, logon, run a
> > command
> > > and send the response to a file in QTEMP to be read and processed
> > > --
>
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