[Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses?
Hello all I have seen a couple of people now trying to use this command. Does anybody have any ideas on it's use or do they use it? If so then how? The reason I ask is that I do beleive we can do this within the emulator as well. That would work for linux environments as well :-)) If there is enough interest in this I will give it a try for the next release? Also if anybody has any technical documentation on this and would share it with me that would be great. Regards Kenneth --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Tn5250j-general mailing list Tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tn5250j-general
Re: [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses?
Hello Kenneth, I've been looking on this issue also, because STRPCCMD is used by almost all of our customers. So, I think we should implement it next to the scanning solution. I was wondering though if the streamdetection should do a callback to an interface, or should immediately run the command as it is so basic/standard functionality that a callback would be overhead. Not sure though what to scan for. Wim. Kenneth Pouncey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/06/2005 09:36 Please respond to tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net To tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses? Hello all I have seen a couple of people now trying to use this command. Does anybody have any ideas on it's use or do they use it? If so then how? The reason I ask is that I do beleive we can do this within the emulator as well. That would work for linux environments as well :-)) If there is enough interest in this I will give it a try for the next release? Also if anybody has any technical documentation on this and would share it with me that would be great. Regards Kenneth --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Tn5250j-general mailing list Tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tn5250j-general
Re: [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses?
Wim I have been thinking about this ever since Ignacio posted to the list. My idea was to implement our own STRPCCMD command maybe called STRPCCMDJ or something stupid like that. Here we just attach a scan listener like you do in one of the modules maybe My5250 and take care of it that way. When we get the command we can parse it and anything that has #!STRPCCMD x in it we just execut it. Was going to be one of my sample/examples :-) Technical question? Is there a special stream passed back for this type of call? If there is would it be the -128 code that Ignacio posted? If it is where did he get the information from? Also what do they use it for? Sorry but can not really think of a use. Am just a lowly programmer and not into the solutions that you and the others out there do. Cool!!! Let's make this sucker jump through some hoops now that the code base is stable. This could turn out to be a lot more flexible that what CA provides as well. We could also allow a custom implementation to be loaded from the command line so the clients can load their own modules to handle this in their own way. Regards Kenneth Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Kenneth, I've been looking on this issue also, because STRPCCMD is used by almost all of our customers. So, I think we should implement it next to the scanning solution. I was wondering though if the streamdetection should do a callback to an interface, or should immediately run the command as it is so basic/standard functionality that a callback would be overhead. Not sure though what to scan for. Wim. Kenneth Pouncey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/06/2005 09:36 Please respond to tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net To tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses? Hello all I have seen a couple of people now trying to use this command. Does anybody have any ideas on it's use or do they use it? If so then how? The reason I ask is that I do beleive we can do this within the emulator as well. That would work for linux environments as well :-)) If there is enough interest in this I will give it a try for the next release? Also if anybody has any technical documentation on this and would share it with me that would be great. Regards Kenneth --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Tn5250j-general mailing list Tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tn5250j-general --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Tn5250j-general mailing list Tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tn5250j-general
Re: [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses?
Actually Kenneth, it is even simpler I think. The STRPCO command actually doesn't do anything (anymore). Just the STRPCCMD fails if you have not issued a STRPCO in advance. It is just client access that scans for what is in the stream on STRPCCMD and indeed scrapes the command and runs it and does an enter. As such it seems the screen has never been displayed. HTH, wim Kenneth Pouncey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/06/2005 10:52 Please respond to tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net To tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject Re: [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses? Wim Well first off that test screen you have is pretty cool :-) Second it looks sort of like what we did for the scanner. So basically what it does is this. 1) Sends the screen with a special command modeled after our scanner stuff. 2) if it does receive this and PCO is active then it will read the screen and not display it. Even sending an Enter key afterwards could be. Would actually need to sniff the interaction but I think that is what it does. 3) If it is not active just display the screen like it says. Basically turning on and off the scanner by a 5250 screen command. This stops other emulators from continuing. Very simple indeed. The solution was elegant. Like I said in one of the previous messages to Pete. It is not the 5250 data streams themselves but how the client interprets and manipulates what is there. Now that is cool!!! Regards Kenneth Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kenneth, I'm completely with your proposal about the STRPCCMDJ as it will allow for so much more than STRPCCMD. The problem being however you application has to run on TN5250j. Most of the customers use e.g. third party software where the STRPCCMD is programmed in the application. so they can not change it. The call is used for the most stupiest stuff you can imagine. e.g. open an image or a word document; Whatever. You imagine it they do it somewhere; That is the main reason I think we need to implement standard STRPCCMD behaviour. As a matter a fact the STRPCCMD functionality is implemented so simple it is even stupid. Look at the screenshots below Wim. Kenneth Pouncey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/06/2005 10:00 Please respond to tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net To tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject Re: [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses? Wim I have been thinking about this ever since Ignacio posted to the list. My idea was to implement our own STRPCCMD command maybe called STRPCCMDJ or something stupid like that. Here we just attach a scan listener like you do in one of the modules maybe My5250 and take care of it that way. When we get the command we can parse it and anything that has #!STRPCCMD x in it we just execut it. Was going to be one of my sample/examples :-) Technical question? Is there a special stream passed back for this type of call? If there is would it be the -128 code that Ignacio posted? If it is where did he get the information from? Also what do they use it for? Sorry but can not really think of a use. Am just a lowly programmer and not into the solutions that you and the others out there do. Cool!!! Let's make this sucker jump through some hoops now that the code base is stable. This could turn out to be a lot more flexible that what CA provides as well. We could also allow a custom implementation to be loaded from the command line so the clients can load their own modules to handle this in their own way. Regards Kenneth Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Kenneth, I've been looking on this issue also, because STRPCCMD is used by almost all of our customers. So, I think we should implement it next to the scanning solution. I was wondering though if the streamdetection should do a callback to an interface, or should immediately run the command as it is so basic/standard functionality that a callback would be overhead. Not sure though what to scan for. Wim. Kenneth Pouncey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/06/2005 09:36 Please respond to tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net To tn5250j-general@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject [Tn5250j-general] STRPCCMD - STRPCO uses? Hello all I have seen a couple of people now trying to use this command. Does anybody have any ideas on it's use or do they use it? If so then how? The reason I ask is that I do beleive we can do this within the emulator as well. That would work for linux environments as well :-)) If there is enough interest in this I will give it a try for the next release? Also if anybody has any technical documentation on this and would share it with me that would
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And from what do I start?
Can I also do it at the beginning
of next week?
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Wim
Yep sure do. That is how I do the hotspots for http/https and the
such for
launching the different browsers.
Is there anyway for you to give it a go and finish up parsing the command?
I
have to get studying and put out a release tomorrow. Next week is
for my exams
as I have put them off long enough.
I wrote routines in the OperatingSystem module to do the calls for execute.
It
will need to be changed to do a wait though but that is not a problem the
code
is still there just commented out.
On thing is for windows and others for linux and such. You could
always call
the command.exe like CA does and it will pull up a dos window. If
not then it
will just execute the code. Either one is fine with me.
Regards
Kenneth
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Hello Kenneth,
this all sounds logical to me. So I think it will do. Do you know
how to
to launch the command and possibly wait for it to finish? I'd suggest
the
Runtime.exec() and Process calls?
Wim.
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Wim
Yes I found that out after running a sniffer on CA. I will bet
it used to
though because it always says to run the PCO.EXE command on the PC
side. I
thought at first that was what was happening. Really did not
need to but
wanted
to know for sure.
Here are the codes that are specified in the data stream:
-128 -
-4 -
-41 - P
-61 - C
-42 - O
64 -
-125 - c
-128 -
-95 - ~
-128 -
-128 - --- This says to wait for process to finish a value
of -127
says not
to wait.
Here is the code I added to writeToDisplay:
case
-128: // strpccmd
if (screen52.getCurrentPos() == 2) {
System.out.println(got a -128 command for
strpccmd +
screen52.getCurrentPos());
int[] crap = new int[15];
for (int i=1;i11;i++) {
crap[i-1]+=bk.getNextByte();
System.out.println(crap[i-1] + - +
codePage.ebcdic2uni(crap[i-1]));
}
for (int i=1;i11;i++)
bk.setPrevByte();
//sendAidKey(AID_ENTER);
}
There is no break; after this command so it continues processing as
normal
with
the default:
This dumps it all out. I did not parse the command from the
screen yet
though.
Have kind of been thinking the best way to do this. I did not
want to
parse the
command text directly from the datastream but will wait to build the
full
screen
and set a variable to say we are in command mode.
At the end of the code right before we do the update of the screen
I will
check
for this variable of whether true or false and if true will call the
routine to
parse the command from the already translated screen.
This will also skip the call to update the screen so we see no flash.
Also
with
the aid of this you will not get that last screen while doing a signoff.
I was parsing from the screen and checking for the codes but what
I was
thinking
was that with different languages those codes might be different because
of the
translation from ebcdic to ascii. Thus the reason for parsing
it in
WriteToDisplay and not the place of scan method.
What do you think?
Regards
Kenneth
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Actually Kenneth, it is even simpler I think. The STRPCO command
actually
doesn't do anything (anymore). Just the STRPCCMD fails if you
have not
issued a STRPCO in advance. It is just client access that scans
for what
is in the stream on STRPCCMD and indeed scrapes the command and
runs it
and does an enter. As such it seems the screen has never been
displayed.
HTH,
wim
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Well first off that test screen you have is pretty cool :-)
Second it looks sort of like what we did for the scanner. So
basically
what it
does is this.
1) Sends the screen with a special command modeled after
our scanner
stuff.
2) if it does receive this and PCO is active then it will
read the
screen
and
not display it. Even sending an Enter key afterwards could
be. Would
actually
need to sniff the interaction but I think that is what it does.
3) If it is not active just display the screen
