[Mpls-pm] Mainframe communications in Perl?

[Joshua ben Jore]

On 2/22/06, Jim Anderson <jim at acadcam.com> wrote:
> I have a potential need to use a perl program to run an application on a
> mainframe (using a 3270 protocol) and grabbing some of the screen data
> that shows up.
>
> Does anybody have any idea if this is possible?  I'd need to establish a
> connection, log in, start the remote application, fill in a field, push
> the request, and then save the results that come back.  I would probably
> want to make multiple data requests in the same session.

If nothing else, how about Expect?

Josh