I want to connect to IBM mainframe thru VB.net and run jobs present in mainframe directly through VB.net and view the output back....
Can any one please help how to connect to IBM mainframe and run jobs directly through vb.net....
I presume you are not looking to duplicate the functionality of ISPF GUI mode.
One method would be to use FTP directly to the JES internal reader as discussed in this thread. It is possible that the mainframe security folks will disallow this, I know mine did.
Another method would be to screen scrape ISPF.
Instead of screen scraping ISPF, you could use the submit command in TSO and run SDSF in TSO to retrieve your output. You could also write Rexx or Java to run on the mainframe to give you your output in a form you desire instead of having your VB code conscious of the ISPF and/or SDSF panels.
You could use a CICS web service that submits batch jobs via the SPOOL API, retrieving the results might be more of a challenge. You might have to store the output in a z/OS Unix file and retrieve it from there.
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I want to capture voice of users using IVR built on Orchestration Designer and store it in file system as wav files. As far as I know, there is a way to do that by using Speech Servers such as Nuance,but, since it is expensive we want to find an alternative way. I have been searching internet for week, but could not find anything related. Is there a way to capture voice using java or voiceXML? Is it even possible without using speech servers?
you could use recoding node to record the voice. '.wav' would be saved in data/temp in your application but it would be deleted once your session is over. You need to write customize java code to copy and paste from temp to your local dir before the session gets invalidated.
I have an requirement to execute macro-script kept on remote machine. DCOM Configuration setting is not set to allow communication between two computers. Even it's not possible to change the DCOM setting in my scenario.
Can I achieve the same requirement using Remote Desktop connection and then invoking macro script (through VBA code)?
I don't know exactly how to invoke script kept on remote machine using VBA?
Any idea/suggestions welcomed!!
This may not exactly answer your question, but may give you an idea.
I faced a the same problem with an application built in Access and the only way I could achieve this is by programming the macro I wanted to run into the application and then let the application periodically check a table on a share drive for "Go" command every few seconds.
On the share drive there was a table like this:
command_id | user | command
======================================
8 | "john.doe" | "update_me"
And all the applications were checking this table. If the app identified itself as user "john.doe", it decided to run the pre-programmed macro "update_me" and delete the row afterwards to prevent it from running again.
You can easily program more advanced stuff, like parameters, periodical execution etc.
It's not perfect, but it works quite nicely. Currently, I have the table on the SQL server and the command request takes cca 0.01s and I use it very often.
I need a simple tool to visualize the status of a series of processes (ETL processes, but that shouldn't matter). This process monitor need to be customizable with color coding for different status codes. The plan is to place the monitor on a big screen in the office making any faults instantly visible to everyone.
Today I can check the status of these processes by running an sql statement against the underlying tables in our oracle database. The output of these queries are the abovementioned status codes for each process. I'm imagining using these sql statements, run periodically (say, every minute or so), as an input to this monitor.
I've considered writing a simple web interface for doing this, but I'm thinking something like this should exist out there already. Anyone have any suggestions?
If just displaying on one workstation another option is SQL Developer Custom Reports. You would still have to fire up SQL Developer and start the report, but the custom reports have a setting so they can be refreshed at a specified interval (5-120 seconds). Depending on the 'richness' of the output you want you can either:
Create a simple Table report (style = Table)
Paste in one of the queries you already use as a starting point.
Create a PL/SQL Block that outputs HTML via DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE statements (Style = plsql-dbms_output)
Get creative as you like with formatting, colors, etc using HTML tags in the output. I have used this to create bar graphs to show progress of v$Long_Operations. A full description and screen shots are available here Creating a User Defined HTML Report
in SQL Developer.
If you just want to get some output moving you can forego SQL Developer, schedule a process to use your PL/SQL block to write HTML output to a file, and use a browser to display your generated output on your big screen. Alternately make the file available via a web server so others in your office can bring it up. Periodically regnerate the file and make sure to add a refresh meta tag to the page so browsers will periodically reload.
Oracle Application Express is probably the best tool for this.
I would say roll your own dashboard. Depends on your skillset, but I'd do a basic web app in Java (spring or some mvc framework, I'm not a web developer but I know enough to create a basic functional dashboard). Since you already know the SQL needed, it shouldn't be difficult to put together and you can modify as needed in future. Just keep it simple I would say (don't need a middleware or single sign-on or fancy views/charts).
I am looking for information on using mstscax.dll in VB. The goal is to create a utility that logs into a remote service in the same manner as remote desktop. However, my utility is not required to show the desktop.
I have a series of commands that I will start off with that will look for users, reset logins, shadow, and message. I have been using a batch file on my RDP to perform these functions, but we are already looking for more functionality and power than what the batch commands can offer.
I am googling 'mstscax.dll' but the results have been less than satisfactory although I continue to search. Does anyone have any good references? Is this even going to be possible?
If you are looking to list or perform operations on remote desktop sessions, you might find the Cassia library helpful. The library can list users logged on to a server, disconnect or logoff sessions, shadow sessions, and display message boxes in a session, among other things. (Note that the shadowing functionality requires a pre-release version of the library available on the project's build server -- use the artifacts link.)
I think you're supposed to use the msrdp.ocx control rather than that dll, though I've personally never used either so can't say for sure.
Edit: Add link
Here's a codeproject article about automating RDP:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/RemoteDesktop_CSharpNET.aspx
I am using citrix to access a application remotely. I am not able to use winrunner as it dosent identify objects as application is not installed on working PC. Is there any tool to automate such application
Citrix has a product called EdgeSight. Tevron has a product called CitraTest.
Have you looked at using AutoIt? It has a built-in recorder to record your keystrokes and mouse movements/clicks, which you can then dump into a script and playback. You can also reference certain windows that present and preform special actions against such as hiding them or, adding/removing controls...really just about anything you want. They also have a great community forum see here
Is tevron Citrab Test tool is an open source tool?
Citratest will work for what you are describing, but it is not open source.