UiPath Terminal Session Integration with IBM HOD Client

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I had the same issue, back in 2019.
HOD profile was not supported as per the WS Profile

How to establish Terminal connection for IBM Application running *.hod profiles

Hi @Dave, Indeed yes, it seems that many organizations are migrating from .ws profile to .hod profiles. As Uipath didn’t have direct integration of HOD profiles, hence the terminal application couldn’t be used as it is with WS, yet… i believe. As per the workaround, i used or relied on couple of ways Uipath able to open the application and click identify on the whole window, hence i utilize the Send Hotkeys (Tab/Enter) and Type Into text Also in some instances I capture the text at a speci…

However in recent Terminal Activities, version 2.01 onwards (if not mistaken)
We can opt for Direct connection to the Terminal Server using IP and Port 23 (Telnet)
This way, i do find it (and tested & deployed in production env), it is much stable and efficient.

Only drawback is that, if you need to use UI automation to click any buttons in IBM HOD application, then you need startup the application to do so.
I do recommend for alternative way to perform the button actions, if possible
either use IBM i-Series or etc