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  1. Hey guys! Here are some informations on how to automate AS400 tasks with AutoIT. AS400 are mainframes made by IBM and used mainly in professional workplaces. First you need to launch an IBM Iseries console to the AS400. It looks like this: As it is a regular window, you can use the "AutoIT Window Info" tool and functions like "ControlSetText", "ControlClick" to automate the login process. Notice that the name of the window (in the top left of the above screenshot) is "Session A". This is because it is the first Iseries window that is opened on the client computer. If you do not close it and open another one, the next one will be named "Session B". The third one "Session C"... Once you're logged into the Iseries console interface, the OS400 login window shows up: Use this code to create an autoIT object linked to the iseries console: global $oOIA = ObjCreate("PCOMM.autECLOIA") $oOIA.SetconnectionByName("A") global $oPS = ObjCreate("PCOMM.autECLPS") $oPS.SetConnectionByName("A") The letter "A" is a reference to the name of the session displayed in the iseries console window, as explained before. Change it to another letter if you have multiples iseries console windows opened at the same time. Then there are 3 main functions that you can use to interact with the interface: $oOIA.WaitForInputReady() ;waits for the interface to be ready for input. $oPS.SetCursorPos(6, 53) ;put the cursor of the interface to position X = 6, Y = 53 $oPS.SendKeys("hello world[enter]") ;write the text "hello world" where the cursor of the interface is then press the enter/return key $result = $oPS.SearchText("banana") ;search for the text "banana" on the interface screen. Returns "True" if found, "False" if not. The function "WaitForInputReady" is badfully not very reliable. For better results, use the fuction "SearchText" in a while loop to wait for a specific text to appear on the interface if you want to be sure that the interface is ready for input. With these 3 functions you can pretty much do anything you would do manually on an Iseries console. Special keys for the "SendKeys" function can be found using the virtual keyboard included in the iseries console software. Enjoy Original post (credit to @DangerousDan and @bwochinski) for helping me understand the above stuff ^^):
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