The BlueZone Host Automation Object is a Component Object Model (COM) software component for 32-bit Windows platforms. BlueZone Host Automation Object is essentially a programmatic interface to BlueZone.
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 as well as other ASCII hosts. 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++, and so on, 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 the BlueZone 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.