virtual terminal?

[ron]

We run a package with Progress on a Solaris server.

Quite a lot of data is entered into the system using data files and Reflections scripts on a PC. That works just fine - but we have a new requirement to do something similar directly on the server.

Does anyone know of a product that would run on the server that behaves like a terminal to Progress code - and takes "keyboard input" from a file? :drink:

 

[bendaluz2]

Sounds like you need to run what I would call a "transaction server" on the solaris box to look for data files and then process them through the system. You could easily create this with a progress procedure and have it running persistently, sleeping most of the time and waking up at intervals to look for files and process them. I dont know of any product you could buy to do the same, though others might.

Hope this helps

Originally posted by ron
We run a package with Progress on a Solaris server.

Quite a lot of data is entered into the system using data files and Reflections scripts on a PC. That works just fine - but we have a new requirement to do something similar directly on the server.

Does anyone know of a product that would run on the server that behaves like a terminal to Progress code - and takes "keyboard input" from a file? :drink:

 

[ron]

We aren't allowed to update the DB of the package we use - except via the supplied application, which is CHUI.

In batch mode this is easy - we do it on a PC and use Reflections scripts.

In the new situation we have to do this work directly on the server - so Reflections can't be used. We need a utility that runs on Solaris and "looks" like (say) a vt400 to Progress - but which we can control via script logic.