Hi all when
we are automating a mainframe application, we might come across the scenarios
like read data from multiple pages. If you are wondering how to go to next page
and how will identify that the last page is reached? then this is the right place
for you.
The mainframe data listing screen usually
comes in fixed size like 10 . The Items listed in a particular page will always
be 10 numbers. So, in last page there might be present 3 items then it will
show 3 items in that page and rest of the rows will be a blank. That is in our
case it will be 7 . The mainframe usually use ‘F8’ key to move to next page if
you press ‘F8’ key in last page there will be an error messages comes up like ‘
F8 is an invalid key’ then we could understands like we have reached to last
page . We could use this idea to
understands whether we reached to last page of the mainframe.
Lets look in Automation anywhere
Step 1 :
Login to mainframe – Use Terminal emulator Connect command to connect to any
terminals.
Step 2 :
Navigate to the listing screen- Use different combination of ‘Send Text’
Command and ‘wait for screen contains text’ command .
Step 3 :
confirm that we have reached to the
listing screen by using ‘wait for screen contains text’ command.
Step 4 :
Read the content of the page using ‘get text’ command .
Step 5 :
Press ‘F8’ key to go to next page using ‘send text’ command.
Extract the values required
using ‘get text’ command.
Loop it until the error message
comes.
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