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HostOnDemand and 5250/3270 screen scraper applications

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Jan Willem de Lange

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Jan 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/3/00
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Hi All,

We are using Client Access for 5250 emulation and Netsoft for 3270 emulation
to a MainFrame. I read some announcements about HostOnDemand that it
integrates all of the 5250/3270/VT100 telnet emulations webbrowser based.
Questions: Does anyone know or applications that use screen scraping still
works???. Is the 5250 emulator a 'green' screen??? If not: are there any
workarounds??? We want to switch to HoD to get rid of all the different
kinds of client software.

TIA
Jan Willem de Lange

Michael Wu

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Jan 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/3/00
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Hi,

As far as I know about the HOD ver3, the 5250 and 3270 still keep the 'green
screen', but it depands on your choice. You can use tools also provide by
IBM to implement to WEB interface.

You can use the browser to connect to your Host everywhere, but 5250 still
has no print function on ver3, but now already has ver4, may be they already
solve this problem.

Regards
Micahel

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> Hi All,

Rich

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Jan 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/3/00
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Hi Jan,

Jan Willem de Lange wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are using Client Access for 5250 emulation and Netsoft for 3270 emulation
> to a MainFrame. I read some announcements about HostOnDemand that it
> integrates all of the 5250/3270/VT100 telnet emulations webbrowser based.
> Questions: Does anyone know or applications that use screen scraping still
> works???

As far as I know, HoD is a configuration of "Web Server" type host and "Web
Browser / Java" client. As such, I really doubt that the green screens work with
it; they generally are 5250 or 3270 protocol dependent.


> Is the 5250 emulator a 'green' screen???

Looks like a green screen, but really isn't.


> If not: are there any
> workarounds???

Not unless you re-write your screen-scrapers as Java applets to interpret the
HoD data stream...

Kind Regards,

Rich

Rich

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Jan 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM1/3/00
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Clarrification to paragraph one above:

The green screens work fine with Host on Demand (HoD) because that's what is shows
you through the web client. I was referring to the green screen "scrapers" on the
client side which will not work through HoD.

Sorry for not making this clearer the first time.

Rich


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