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Crystal Point OutsideView - Mainframe Automation

flavio.lara — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 19:49:00 GMT

Hello Experts!

We have a demand to automate a mainframe process.

My company uses an emulator named Crystal Point OutsideView and we have not been able to attach or map anything so far.

Does anyone know if can Blue Prism automate this kind of emulator?

We have tried "Generic HLLAPI" without success.

Any guess will be very valuable.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Flavio Lara

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Flavio Lara
System Analyst
Vallourec Tubos do Brasil
America/Sao_PauloBrazil
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RE: Crystal Point OutsideView - Mainframe Automation

zdenek.kabatek — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 06:49:00 GMT

Hi, Flavio,

I went to the web site to see if it supports HLLAPI but I could not find any information. So my recommendation is to contact them and ask them if it supports HLLAPI. If yes then it should work with Blue Prism if not then it won't work natively. But it exposes some API which you could use if you know how to write code stages or one of my clients automated it through saving content in the clipboard and parsing it, not sure though how they move within the screen.

Regards,

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Zdeněk Kabátek
Head of Professional Services
NEOOPS
http://www.neoops.com/
Europe/Prague
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RE: Crystal Point OutsideView - Mainframe Automation

flavio.lara — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:20:00 GMT

Hi Zdenek!

Thanks for your answer! Unfortunately OutsideView does not support HLLAPI. They provide a .NET API, so maybe the solution is to create code stages to interact with it as you said. I'll try some surface automation techniques as well.

Regards,

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Flavio Lara
System Analyst
Vallourec Tubos do Brasil
America/Sao_PauloBrazil
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