Hi Everyone, I am working on a mainframe automation. I am familiar with the UiPath terminal package used to automate terminals, I am not using terminal session activity to start the application, so I cannot use the other activities in the package. Are there other ways, activities, or packages to in…

Just take a look for below and try it. lets check which will work in your case. Because there multiple options. Please go through it. Screen Scraping: If you can’t directly interact with the terminal session, you can still use screen scraping techniques to extract information from the mainframe …

[image] Rohan_Goswami2: I am not using terminal session activity to start the application, Any reasons for this?

Hi Peter, I checked with the client they don’t have the necessary details to establish the connection. Are there any other ways I can automate the mainframe? Thanks

Automating terminals and using activities from the package had good results, when running later in the productions. So, we recommend taking such positive effects, if ever it is possible. [image] Rohan_Goswami2: don’t have the necessary details to establish the connection still have a chance …

As of now, the Mainframe is started via command prompt using UiPath.

Ok, lets avoid a ping-pong [image] Rohan_Goswami2: the Mainframe lets be more specific: the Client? which client?.. [image] Rohan_Goswami2: is started via command prompt then we would investigate if the mechanism behind the scenes can be explored and may give hint on using it for ter…

[image] Rohan_Goswami2: client client in terms of MainFrame client Application. We hope that it was interpret in the same way

[image] Rohan_Goswami2: I am not using terminal session activity to start the application Why not? That’s what you’re supposed to do. I highly recommend using Direct Connection, not a third party terminal.

If you are not using terminal session, you can look for APIs. Check with your client if there are APIs available for the screens you need to work on. You will need to install WebAPI package in studio and use HTTP request activity for API calls.

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Rohan_Goswami2 (Rohan Goswami) May 23, 2024, 12:28pm 8

The client is referred to the Business Owners, Thanks for the inputs. I am able to find a workaround.

Thank you.

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