Comments on: Log AS/400 user key strokes http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/log-as400-user-key-strokes/ Wed, 22 May 2013 17:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: bvining http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/log-as400-user-key-strokes/#comment-50901 bvining Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:17:02 +0000 #comment-50901 Hi, Lynda

Yes, I have written the utility I referenced in my previous answer. One of my customers wanted to replace operator keystrokes for a transaction with a program to simulate the operator actions. The program essentially allows one to automate any operator actions so long as there are a well defined set of rules on what an operator is to do on any given green screen panel. As part of developing this offering I found it handy to log all incoming and outgoing 5250 data streams and also to log the screen images (where these images are similiar to the file output of STRCPYSCN) after processing the 5250 data streams.

I could customize this logging to meet your specific needs. If you would like to discuss this, my email is bvining@brucevining.com

We may very well have met when you were doing your residency. I do not recall off hand, but at that time my office was in Building 15-3. The same floor as many of the database developers you might have worked with.

Bruce Vining

]]> By: zbbwoc http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/log-as400-user-key-strokes/#comment-50897 zbbwoc Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:00:43 +0000 #comment-50897 Thanks for your comments. I am familiar with the STRCPYSCN, and you are right, I don’t want an intrusive method. I may take a look and see if I can somehow use it to get to my ultimate goal. Did you write the utility you referenced in your answer? Is it available? It is not necessary to track the key strokes with the back space. I just need a log (file) to know what exactly is being done, for documentation and trouble shooting reference purposes.

I checked your profile, seems we have been in the mid-range business for a quite a while (I started with the mid-range systems in 1975). I’ll have to check my notes of when I did my residency @ITSO to see if I met you when I was writing the Parallel Query Processing book in 1996. Small world isn’t it!

Lynda Bovinette

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