Hi all,
Are there any 3270 screen scraping libraries out there for Ruby? And
do you have any suggestions on how to write one?
Regards,
Dan
Some time ago when I needed to support 3270, I ended up using s3270 from
http://x3270.bgp.nu/ – this provides a scripting access to 3270
protocol. You send 3270 requests to its standard input and it spits info
and screen dumps to the standard output. In my TSC-ACT project at
TSC Acceptance Testing Framework (TACT) download | SourceForge.net I have 3270 integration via
s3270, however there’s no official release yet (no easy installation and
documentation yet). You can see an example of how I interact with s3270
via IO::popen() in here:
TSC Acceptance Testing Framework (TACT) download | SourceForge.net
Please contact me off-list if you are interested in more details.
Gennady.
On Mar 21, 7:14 pm, Gennady B. [email protected]
wrote:
Some time ago when I needed to support 3270, I ended up using s3270 fromhttp://x3270.bgp.nu/-- this provides a scripting access to 3270 protocol. You send 3270 requests to its standard input and it spits info and screen dumps to the standard output. In my TSC-ACT project athttp://sourceforge.net/projects/tsc-actI have 3270 integration via s3270, however there’s no official release yet (no easy installation and documentation yet). You can see an example of how I interact with s3270 via IO::popen() in here:TSC Acceptance Testing Framework (TACT) download | SourceForge.net…
Please contact me off-list if you are interested in more details.
Gennady.
Thank you for this. I will definitely take a look.
Dan
On Mar 21, 12:16 pm, Daniel B. [email protected] wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any 3270 screen scraping libraries out there for Ruby? And
do you have any suggestions on how to write one?Regards,
Dan
If your emulator is Attachmate Extra, it has a built in
macro language that can read the screen and type in
data. This language can be invoked from Ruby or from
the DOS-prompt with the command “ebrun”.
Back in my mainframe days, I used the HLLAPI (aka WHLLPAI, aka
HLLAPI32) interface of the terminal emulators to interact with the
mainframe. Worked beautifully…
If you’re interested, I’m willing to extract the low-level code from
my old projects.
gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Erik V. [email protected]
wrote:
Back in my mainframe days, I used the HLLAPI (aka WHLLPAI, aka
HLLAPI32) interface of the terminal emulators to interact with the
mainframe. Worked beautifully…
Ah yes! HLLAPI days 
Regards,
Sean