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*** WinBatch 2003a Released ***
Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:31 AM
WinBatch 2003a is now available for download. It is a free update for 2001a and newer customers.
It is mostly a maintenance/bug fix release.
Tue, 01 Oct 2002
Two NEW long awaited extenders are now available for download.
These are...
Enhanced HLLAPI Extender
The EHLLAPI extender allows a WinBatch script to take
control of a mainframe [e.g. 3270] or AS/400 [e.g. 5250]
terminal emulator session in Reflection IBM, NetManage
RUMBA, Attachmate myExtra! and in just about any other
terminal emulator that does 3270/5250 emulation and which
implements IBM's Enhanced HLLAPI interface. The HummingBird
HostExplorer software should work with this extender too,
but no copies of HostExplorer were avilable to test with
during the development of this extender.
Enhanced HLLAPI [High Level Language API] is a standard
method that IBM developed which allows application programs
to interfact with a mainframe or AS/400 terminal emulator
so that tasks like screen-scraping could be performed.
Using this extender, it is possible to read the contents of
the emulator display area and to send keystrokes & "AID"
keys [e.g. ENTER, CLEAR, RESET, the PF* and PA* keys, etc.]
in a way that does not depend on the built-in scripting
capabilities [or even OLE server functionality] of any
particular terminal emulation software. It is also possible
to search for text in the display area, to search for text
within defined fields, copy text to/from the display area,
copy text to/from a field, search for fields that may be
defined, interrogate the display area, interrogate a field,
intercept keystrokes, wait for notification that the host
has sent an update to the display area and many other tasks
can be performed, too.
If you've ever needed to have a WinBatch script interact
directly and seamlessly with a mainframe or AS/400 terminal
emulator, then this extender is what you need to do that.
EHLLAPI Extender download:
http://files.winbatch.com/wwwftp/wb01/wwhll34i.zip
and the
Windows Terminal Services Extender.
This extender allows a WinBatch script to directly enumerate,
interrogate and manipulate terminal services sessions on a
WinNT/2K/XP system that has terminal services enabled on it.
This functionality also works on a system that is running
the Citrix MetaFrame & MetaFrame/XP software, although the
extender does not have the ability to take advantage of any
Citrix-specific functionality enhancements. Additional
Citrix-related enhancements might be made to this extender
in future releases.
Terminal Services Extender download:
http://files.winbatch.com/wwwftp/wb01/wwwts34i.zip
In addition, a rather longish web page designed to get the
WinBatch novice off to a fast start using WinBatch is our HTML
offering this month. It can be found at...
http://www.winbatch.com/quickstart.html
Aug 26, 2002
NetWareX Extender Release v34005
New NetWareX Beta Released:
http://files.winbatch.com/wwwftp/wb01/wwnwx34i.zip
1. A bug has been fixed in nwGetConnInfo(). Specifically, the information
returned by request #'s 36 through 43 requires that the user have
console operator privileges on the server. However, this information
is seldom asked for and this in turn was causing nwGetConnInfo() to
periodically fail due to the user's lack of console operator privs and
the unconditional attempt to retrieve this information regardless of
whether or not it was being asked for.
The fix to the problem is to only call the API function
NWGetTaskInfoByConn() when request #'s 36 through 43 are specifically
being requested.
2. A documentation clarification needs to be made regarding NetWareX and
its compatibility with various versions of WinBatch[+Compiler].
The NetWareX extender, as of v34001, requires the use of
WinBatch[+Compiler] 2001N or newer. WinBatch[+Compiler] 2001A
through 2001M do not implement the extender feature level 1002 that
this version of the extender requires.
3. The functions nwListObjects() and nwSearchObjects() now support the
use of some new flag bits in the "Flags" parameter. These new flag
bits provide for additional control over whether or not [non-]container
objects are included or excluded in the list/search results. Refer to
the documentation for these functions for further details.
4. A new function named nwSendBcastMsg() has been added. This function
allows NetWare broadcast messages to be sent on the network.
5. Three new functions, nwGetBcastMode(), nwSetBcastMode() and
nwReceiveBcastMsg(), have been added. These functions allow for
getting and setting the broadcast mode [equivalent to the CASTON and
CASTOFF NetWare utilities], as well as for receiving stored messages
when automatic notification of message receipt has been disabled via
nwSetBcastMode().
Thursday, November 29, 2001 04:06 PM
*** New LAFFDB Extender ***
Light Ascii Flat File DataBase Extender just released.
Real database operations with standard Ascii/Ansi files. This includes CSV
and tab delimited files among others.
This is an early barely-out-of-beta version of this extender. Examples are
limited and the help file needs more ummm help.
But it does seem to run in most cases. Consider it an advanced beta...
Download link is....
Download
After many (many) months of diligent work, we are *finally* happy to mention that WinBatch 2001 has
been released.
More information may be found at...
http://www.windowware.com/winware/winbatch2001.html
It can be downloaded from
http://www.windowware.com/wwwftp/wb01
As this is the first wide public release, we do expect a few minor nits to show up in the next couple of
weeks. Test carefully.
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