Re: Is the following automation possible?
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Hello Rene,
Thank you for your message and information.? Question:? On REDIT and WINMMG can I upload them via the built in wc3280 and CMS method?? Are they binary or ASCII or ?????
BTW, How do you transfer files via the RDR?? I've not seen a discussion on this method.
Again Thank You.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 12:23 AM, Bertram Moshier wrote:
I'm wondering; is it possible to automate VM/CMS file editing a file by using KEdit on Windows, instead.
In 2008, Robert O'Hara wrote a small Windows program to achieve that purpose. It is called VMconsole.exe. It is essentially a modified telnet client.
You connect to VM/370 using it with a command like this:
vmconsole.exe 127.0.0.1 3270
It will started a 3215 connection to VM/370. You logon to your virtual with it and you edit a file with the command:
redit fn ft [ fm | A ]
This will transfer the CMS file to Windows and open the Windows local copy with Notepad. After you save the local copy and quit Notepad, it will be sent back to CMS to replace the current file.
I just tried it, replacing Notepad with KEdit, and it seems to work.
If you want to try it on your side, download the ZIP archive VMconsole.zip from the Files section of this group.
The ZIP contains vmconsole.exe, vmconsole.cfg (in which you may change notepad par kedit), and two EXECs (REDIT and WINMSG) that you need to transfer to your VM/370 virtual machine, either via the card reader or the tape vmconsole.aws.
Cheers,
Rene FERLAND, Montreal
P.S. -- This program was written before EE was made available.
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