BlueZone Host Automation Object Help

Welcome

Welcome to BlueZone Host Automation Object Host Help.  The BlueZone Host Automation Object is a Component Object Model (COM) software component for 32-bit Windows platforms.  BlueZone Host Automation Object can be utilized by any COM container application like Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word to enable communications between PCs running BlueZone Display emulation software products and IBM mainframe and iSeries systems.  With BlueZone Host Automation Object, applications can execute common tasks on various host systems, automate user input, obtain data from host systems, initiate file transfers, and more.

The BlueZone Host Automation Object is a language-independent software component.  Programs written in Visual Basic®, Pascal, C, C++, etc. can invoke the BlueZone Host Automation Object to communicate with the host system.  In addition, the BlueZone Host Automation Object can be incorporated into many popular word processing, database and spreadsheet macros, and run by any ActiveX scripting engine, including the BlueZone Scripting Host.

The BlueZone Host Automation Object utilizes capabilities of BlueZone's File Mapping (Shared Memory), DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) and HLLAPI (High-Level Language API) interfaces.  In addition to the container’s properties and methods, the BlueZone Host Automation Object adds objects, properties and methods that enable interaction with the BlueZone session and the host system.

In order for the BlueZone Host Automation Object to communicate with a BlueZone Display emulation session, you must enable BlueZone's DDE interface.

SEE  Configuring BlueZone to Work with the Host Automation Object

Advantages of using BlueZone Host Automation Object

• Easier to implement than HLLAPI or DDE and provides greater functionality

• Allows easy integration with any COM compliant application

• Language Independent

Disadvantages of using BlueZone Host Automation Object

• BlueZone Host Automation Object  is a development tool that requires familiarity with programming to implement

The following is an example of a VBScript that loads the BlueZone Host Automation Object:

The following is an example of the BlueZone Host Automation Object Loaded in a Microsoft Excel VBA Macro:

SEE  BlueZone VBA Help for more information.