Screen scraping a 3270 terminal?

Ansar Mohammed ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 14 09:41:33 UTC 2008


I have no solution, only heartfelt condolences.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Aaron
> Vegh
> Sent: January 9, 2008 12:51 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: [TLUG]: Screen scraping a 3270 terminal?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers!
> Aaron.
> 
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