MainFrame Automation with Robot

[sai krishna]

Hi is there any possibility to automate Mainframe application with robot Framework? If Yes, Can you please specify the related things needs to pointed out

[David]

What exactly do you need to automate within or regarding the mainframe? Need more info to answer your question.

GUI app? CLI app? network protocols?

[Michel Lawaty]

And what do you want to know, Sai ? 

Technical Requirements which Robot Framework needs?

Please be more specific about your question and use case.

[Francisco Niño]

Hi Sai,

My team is currently implementing test automation using Robot Framework(http://robotframework.org/) to test mainframe jobs. 

There's no much on the subject on the internet yet.

We are using the ability of the mainframe to execute jobs via a FTP connection using the "quote site filetype=jes" instruction. 

Then we use a modified version of the robot framework FTP library to drive our test.

It pretty much works setting up jobs, submitting those jobs, monitoring its execution and at the end verifying the results (could be compare files or verify database information).
Initially our setup is focused on the testing of batch applications (No CICS tests yet)

[David Boyes]

On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 3:32:46 AM UTC-4, sai krishna wrote:

Hi is there any possibility to automate Mainframe application with robot Framework? If Yes, Can you please specify the related things needs to pointed out

We have been working on a 3270 session driver and a remote execution server for testing mainframe apps. The 3270 driver mostly works (requires x3270/s3270  to manage the terminal emulation). We think it could use a bit more work in how sessions are specified and scripted, but YMMV.

 The real gotcha is going to be higher levels of abstraction, ie, how do you describe various concepts like "log into TSO and run X, returning Y". The panel-driven nature of the 3270 makes this challenging in that field input is dependent on screen size/capability.

We'd be interested in some feedback on this approach.

[Samuel Cabral]

Hi, my company developed a robot framework library for this:

https://github.com/Altran-PT-GDC/Robot-Framework-Mainframe-3270-Library

enjoy =)

[muneeb awan]

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