Overview

Welcome to Interaction Host Recorder, the CIC application for creating host profiles. Host profiles are the scripts Host Server uses to navigate terminal emulation screens. The host profiles you publish to the Host Server can be used by the Host tools in handlers, as shown in the following two figures:

Configuration with MS SNA Server

Configuration with Direct Telnet Connection

1. A host profile that you created in Interaction Host Recorder is published to the Host Server. The profile contains information about connecting to a host, moving between screens (transitions), and areas in the screens where information can be read and written.

2. Host tools in handlers send commands to the Host Server. These tools can request that Host Server use the profile to open a connection to the host, navigate to certain screens, and read and/or write data. HostServerU.exe executes the commands sent by the host tools. The connection is opened and a terminal emulation is maintained on the Host Server. The Host Server can maintain thousands of these connections simultaneously.

3. The mainframe host does what the Host Server tells it to do. As far as it knows, the Host Server is just another human user typing commands.

As far as the logic involved in the host connection is concerned, connections to the SNA Server can be considered to be the same as connections to the host in a Telnet configuration.

See Introduction to profiles for an overview of the how you can create hot profiles in Interaction Host Recorder.

March 7, 2019