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Tejas
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accessing net via job

Post by Tejas » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:41 pm

How can one access a webpage, give search parameters, run the search and get the results - all through a mainframe job?

Veera
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Post by Veera » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:01 am

Tejas,

Well i have seen running the MAINFRAMES JOBS from WINDOWS OS....or thru
other languages interface like JAVA .... WELL I AM NOT REALLY SURE IF
WE CAN ACHIEVE WHAT YOU HAVE ASKED FOR :) .

May be IF some one has done something on this already will able to guide us
or give some pointers.

I am just curious regarding your requirements...so taught of asking few things.

Your requirement seems to be different, well can you let us know few more
details reg ur requirement.

1--> Do you mean something like what search engines (GOOGLE) do ???

2--> Then where are you expecting your results to be stored in a dataset or
you want the results to be shown on any online screens ..other languages
connectivity ....

3--> Narrowing the search parameters is one more query which needs to be
given a tough taught...


Thanks,
Veera.

Tejas
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Post by Tejas » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:12 pm

Was kind of a qierd problem :

The requirement was to pull out monthly data from a web based tool - since direct access to database was not permitted.

I have seen mainframe jobs calling unix scripts which in turn thru xml passed the parameters to the fields, to run a function. Was thinking on haing a similar thing, but based solely on jcl/cobol.

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