Screen scraping a 3270 terminal?

[James Knott]

Aaron Vegh 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.
>   

Many years ago, I used to support IBM's "Personal Communications" at
IBM.  IIRC, it could do that sort of thing with scripts, but it's been
quite a while since I've used it.

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