Capturing data from CICS screen automatically

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

I have to do some transactions in CICS region and check for a date field whether it is current date or not. I have to do a huge number of transactions in different CICS regions. Can we develop a tool which will automatically do all the transactions and give me the snap shots of the scrrens after the transaction is done so that it can be worked on to check the requjired field.

ofer71 · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:43 pm

What do you mean by "do all the transactions "????????

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superk · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:11 pm

You probably can devlop one, but such tools already exist.

We use BMC Mainview AutoOPERATOR OSPI (Open Systems Protocol Interface) to do exactly what you want.

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

Cna i know in what language or tool is it developed. Can i get source code of it. Its very urgent for me. Please help

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

Hi Superk,
probably you did not get want i wanted to say. Let me mention it very clearly.

I have 50 regions.
I have to do one trasaction say 'abc' in each of these regions.
Now for each transaction in each region, i have to check a date field on the screen that appears after the transaction is fired.
This i have to do for all the regions and make a note of (or say copy the details) where i find date as not today's.

Now in this process, I have to go to each region manually and do the transaction, and check the date and come out.
Now can this be done by a tool which will give me the region name and the copied text or screen shot of the screen that appears after the transaction is fired.
Please help me in this.

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

please reply me on this

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

superk,

can you help me on this?

superk · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:19 am

OSPI can do what you want.

ofer71 · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:52 pm

We did it using our emulator's macro.

O.

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

can i get the source code of OPSI?

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

hi ofer71,
can you tell me where can i get the code of the tool that you are talking about?

William Thompson · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:31 pm

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

I think i did not understand

ofer71 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:23 pm

I was talking about 3270 emulator; In my case, we use IBM's Personal Communication (aka PCOM), which comes with extensive macro language.

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harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

ya i got it and i could find how to do it. but not able to copy and paste the screen that i want to make a note of.. can we do this ?

ofer71 · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:05 pm

In my emulator, we can change the "print" option to print into a file - instead to printer. That's how we do it.

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William Thompson · Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:10 pm

You will have to check your emuulator to see if it is possible.

harshal · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 21

You mean i can print the screen into a file?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:31 am

Hello,

Yes, many 3270 emulators will "print" the screen into a file on the PC.