Use script variables

BlueZone scripts can accept variables which can be passed to BlueZone through object tag parameters. Up to nine (9) variables per BlueZone session can be specified starting with Var1 and ending with Var9. These variables can be inserted into the object tag dynamically based on the user’s login information. Technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and Java Server Pages (JSP) can be used to create HTML pages with dynamic content.

Configuration method: Manual configuration

Feature scope: Site-level feature

Scope

The following exercise shows you how to record a BlueZone script that can be used to automatically log a user in to a host by using two variables: one for user name and one for password.

In the following exercise, file references are for BlueZone Mainframe. If you are using BlueZone iSeries or BlueZone VT, substitute the appropriate file names and locations.

The steps involved are:

Record the BlueZone login script
Configure BlueZone to automatically play the script
Use BlueZone Script Editor to insert variables into your script
Add variables to the BlueZone object tag
Make the script available to your users

It is the responsibility of the reader to provide an Active Server Page script or some other method that will provide the dynamic interface to the web page that contains the BlueZone object tag.

Requirements

BlueZone Web-to-Host installed and working on a web server
That you are familiar with configuring BlueZone Web-to-Host and its terminology
An interface that can capture the user’s user name and password, and that can dynamically pass that information to an ASP script or similar dynamic scripting technology