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 BlueZone Script Host and Debugger.
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.
Advantages of using BlueZone Host Automation Object
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Easier to implement than HLLAPI or DDE and provides greater functionality. |
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Allows easy integration with any COM compliant application. |
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A COM interface is available with the BlueZone Migration Toolkit that allows easy migration to BlueZone. This interface is
compatible with the following emulators:
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IBM Personal Communications |
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OHIO (Open Host Interface Objects) |
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Disadvantages of using BlueZone Host Automation Object
BlueZone Host Automation Object is a development tool that requires familiarity with programming to implement.