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LANSA Composer provides a set of activities that are designed to permit a Processing Sequence to connect to and interact with an aXes Terminal Server to navigate, populate and interrogate IBM i 5250 screens. Using the aXes Terminal Server activities, a Processing Sequence can interact directly with existing IBM i 5250 applications running on the same or a different server system. The Processing Sequence can execute activities to perform such operations as:

  • connect Connect (and logon) and disconnect the 5250 session.
  • interrogate Interrogate the values of current screen identifiers and field values.
  • set Set the values of 5250 screen entry fields.
  • send Send function keys such as ENTER and F3.
  • perform Perform multiple operations with a single activity by using aXes terminal operation scripts.

The aXes terminal server activities are individually described in:

Terminal Server Activities.
This chapter provides an overview and considerations for using these activities.


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