IBM Mainframe scrape in dot net core application

Question

I have a requirement where I need to scrape the IBM mainframe(HOD) screen in a Dot net core web application with React JS as the front end.

I am using IBM UtilityBridge which is a COM component. I am able to make it work in my local machine on a console application but the problem we have is to make it work in a Prod environment. I want to explore option where the server in dot net or python and a HOD session in the client machine interact with each other if that is possible at all?

I can't quite understand the final question. Can you rephrase? — Hogstrom, Feb 25 '21 at 15:06
I want to explore options where a server code in dot net or python can interact with a Mainframe session opened in a client machine — Abhinav Singh, Feb 26 '21 at 06:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '21 at 15:07

Instead of building the wheel from scratch, you should utilize the Host on Demand API. A 3270 telnet session has multiple layers of data in the data stream. Trying to rewrite that in .NET or Python is unreasonable (and expensive). Get a license of IBM HOD if you're company does not already have it (this is part of the IBM HOD, PCOMM 3270 emulator package).

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSS9FA_14.0.0/com.ibm.hod.doc/doc/SessionManager/SessionManagerAPI.html

IBM Mainframe scrape in dot net core application

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