Aha! I got another reply on the ooRexx help list and this works:
connList = .OLEObject~new("PCOMM.autECLConnList")
conn = connList~FindConnectionByName("A")
say conn~name conn~connType conn~codepage conn~started conn~ready
This results in:
C:\Users\myname\Documents\testdir >rexx testhacl.rex
A DISP3270 1047 1 1
At least I have a learning path to follow now (HACL has a LOT of
functions/methods), so thank you very much. Now I can use a language I already
know for the functional structure and set up the automation I need.
Still a lot to learn, but that's the job.
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2023 11:14 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Using EHLLAPI from ooRexx
No luck I am afraid:
5 *-* str = autECLConnList(1)~Name
Error 43 running C:\Users\myname\Documents\testdir\testhacl.rex line 5:
Routine not found.
Error 43.1: Could not find routine "AUTECLCONNLIST".
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
Rony G. Flatscher
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2023 3:46 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Using EHLLAPI from ooRexx
Just noted that the mailer ruined the syntax:
autoECLConnList = .OleObject~new("PCOMM.autECLConnList")
autoECLConnList~Refresh
str = autECLConnList(1)~Name
---rony
On 30.06.2023 09:22, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
> On 30.06.2023 08:46, Farley, Peter wrote:
>> Thanks for the link David, but that seems to be tied intimately to
>> x3270, and I need it to work with PCOMM.
>>
>> Also investigating PCOMM HACL (Host Access Class Library) as an
>> alternative, using VBScript (<*Sigh*>, yet another language to learn).
>
> Judging from
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/personal-comm
> unications/15.0?topic=SSEQ5Y_15.0.0*com.ibm.pcomm.doc*books*html*host_access08.html__;Ly8vLw!!Ebr-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!OHS9_k-XSvFBFZyLGLsofx1K3_bpc7Pb70Zhae2AclS3_irQqT4UewjjkGikadAo6rgTf_y3zKD0tgb45uP95EcVnD0QEVU4$
> > there are OLE APIs which should allow you to use the Windows version of
> ooRexx as it supports OLE.
> That is the reason why you can code in ooRexx for MS Excel, MS Word,
> MS Powerpoint and the like, just look up the ooRexx samples in
> "ooRexx\samples\ole\apps" where you would see also samples for
> OpenOffice/LibreOffice via OLE.
>
> So looking at the VBA example:
>
> |Dim Str as String Dim autECLConnList as Object Dim Num as Long Set
> autECLConnList =
> CreateObject("PCOMM.autECLConnList") autECLConnList.Refresh Str =
> autECLConnList(1).Name|
>
> try the following in ooRexx:
>
> autoECLConnList = .OleObject~new(|PCOMM.autECLConnList")|
> autoECLConnList~Refresh
> str = autECLConnList(1)~Name
>
> Does that work for you?
>
> ---rony
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On
>> Behalf Of David Crayford
>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 11:48 PM To:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Using EHLLAPI from ooRexx
>>
>> It may be easier to
>> usehttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/py3270/py3270__;!!E
>> br-cpPeAnfNniQ8HSAI-g_K5b7VKg!LslIz3RHy9Ct1CC2dStYVdn9sNVor2JieWkv62q
>> KTHeNjTV8BP_GG59tue0S-FF-h_YqPRXXtxsO4U4NUCOrg08$
>>
>>> On 29 Jun 2023, at 10:56 pm, Farley,
>>> Peter<0000031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have sent this question to the ooRexx help list but have not yet
>>> seen an answer. Hoping someone here has been down this path and can help
>>> cure my ignorance.
>>>
>>> I have an automation task before me that needs some complex 3270
>>> screen interactions, so I was hoping to use ooRexx from the company laptop
>>> (Windows 10) using the EHLLAPI interface to PCOMM.
>>>
>>> I started with a simple logon script to learn the connection/setup
>>> requirements, and after (I
>>> thought) successfully executing rxfuncadd for the EHLLAPI interface,
>>> the first actual call to EHLLAPI (for the Connect function) gets
>>> oorexx error 43.1, cannot find routine EHLLAPI, indicating to me that the
>>> rxfuncadd did not really work.
>>>
>>> Then it occurred to me to ask how does rxfuncadd know where to find
>>> the EHLLAPI DLL? Is there some environment variable that needs to
>>> be set pointing to the PCOMM directory where the DLL is stored?
>>>
>>> There is some old Rexx EHLLAPI interface material in the PCOMM V6
>>> documentation available on the web, but I now have PCOMM V14 on my
>>> machine and it seems that the Rexx examples have disappeared from the V14
>>> documentation (at least I didn't find any).
>>>
>>> I am a little "lost at sea" here, so I would appreciate any help or
>>> RTFM you can provide. Or better yet a publicly available set of example
>>> scripts for EHLLAPI interactions with PCOMM.
>>>
>>> Peter
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