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Status Submitted
Workspace Db2
Components Other/Unknown
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 30, 2024

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g.IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455), it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do.

For example:
Description=
"123456
[enter]
[pf1]
"04
"Pencils
"2,22
[enter]
[tab field]
"Y
[enter]
[pf3]

...

for 123456 is an imaginized order number and this adds the first position. As we receive many orders as csv or excel file, it was kind of easy to create these scripts even for orders with many hundred lines.

But using the iaccess client Emulator on macOS, it won't accept this scripts anymore, and trying to create a new one the recommended way using HAScript causes much more effort (and to tell the truth, my first attempts were not really successful).

Some of our scripts run over 20 rows each position and in some this scipts could extend the max. macro lenght so we had to set checkMacroSize to no.
it would be very much work to translate them, even if this is possible. Any suggestions why the simple scripts are not running anymore and wether to cope with them?

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