I had a client in 2010 that used LegaSuite very successfully, but it was not really screen-scraping, it was a FEPI front end. The bad thing is it drove the CPU through the roof because 1 click of the mouse button triggered about 10 or 12 CICS transactions, tasks, under the covers. Quite a price to pay just so customer service does not have to touch type.
Screen-scaping is taboo where I am now. I did not think HATS did screen scraping. Could it be that the performance problem with HATS was the additional CPU overhead that inevitably occurs whenever you "put lipstick on the pig"? Another screen scraping workaround is MQ which has become the duct tape of the intranet. Believe it or not, MQ front ends many of the big legacy MF systems of the past we know so well and is used widely in the banking industry to interface to the ATMs and also in the airline industry. .NET has some nice plug-ins for MQ. CICS has a niffty CICS MQ Bridge which passes the BMS logical, not physical map, to the MR platform thereby eliminating most of the disadvantages of screen scraping. On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:31 AM, David Andrews <d...@lists.duda.com> wrote: > > Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA side > > for screen scraping TN3270 applications. > > We use the LegaSuite product to GUIfy existing green screen applications > and improve workflow. There are bells and whistles we don't use, > including something called "LegaSuite Integration". In one of the > manuals I see that "Java Connectors provide access to any application > using Java APIs". > > So I'll guess that LegaSuite might provide a scraping interface via a > Java API. That's a solution for which we have no known problem, so best > check with your friendly Rocket rep. > > -- > David Andrews > A. Duda & Sons, Inc. > david.andr...@duda.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- George Henke (C) 845 401 5614 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
