Screen scraping a 3270 terminal?

[Christopher Browne]

On Jan 9, 2008 12:50 PM, Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have a client who wants me to scrape information from a number of
> web-located resources (they're all internal to their network). That's
> doable, but among the resources are two 3270 terminal sessions that
> have to be logged into, navigated through and then scraped.
>
> My normal procedure is to use curl to snatch and parse HTML from a
> site, and it will suffice for the rest of the job. But how does one
> programmatically parse through an old green screen application?
>
> I found a vendor called Jagacy (jagacy.com) that provides a Java-based
> solution, but it seems to be GUI based... and I'm not that good with
> Java anyway.
>
> Any other thoughts would be appreciated.

I had some involvement with such a project Many Moons Ago; the vendor
then was Attachmate, who are still around (<http://attachmate.com/>).

The other vendor that I know has "history" in this is Hummingbird, who
sell "Host Explorer."

These are the sorts of products that ought to be suitable, as long as
you can match their tooling against what you need to integrate with.
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