Terminal Emulation session with IBM Personal Communcations of AS/400

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Posted on 22 Mar 2021 10:14:20 by Chriskhansen

Hey,

Trying to setup a Terminal Session, and seemingly struggling to do so..

Using the "Open Terminal Session" from PAD, and HLLAPI as provider, and HLLAPI DLL PATH to: mypath/ehlapi32.dll

I set the session name to "A", and I am receiving the following error:

Robin.Core.ActionException: Error during Communcation emulator ---> Robin.Shared.Runtime.TerminalEmulationActionException: Exception of type 'Robin.Shared.Runtime.TerminalEmulationActionException' was thrown.

at Robin.BridgeToHLLAPI.HLLAPIActionsImpl.<>c__DisplayClass16_0.<Open>b__0()

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at Robin.Modules.TerminalEmulation.Actions.OpenTerminalSession.Execute(ActionContext context)

at Robin.Runtime.Engine.ActionRunner.RunAction(String action, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments, IActionStatement statement)

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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ZS440 262 on 22 Mar 2021 at 12:27:43

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Re: Terminal Emulation session with IBM Personal Communcations of AS/400

Hi @Chriskhansen
You need to start PCOM from the workstation profile (*.WS) first.
Make sure that PCSWS.EXE is present in the running process.
In this state, the Open terminal sesseion action will allow the PAD to access the PCOM.
If you are using the default installation
HLLAPI DLL path : C:\Program Files\ibm\Personal Communications\EHLAPI32.dll
Session name :A

try it.
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Chriskhansen 20 on 28 Mar 2021 at 19:58:37

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Re: Terminal Emulation session with IBM Personal Communcations of AS/400

Turns out - if I open the session from a .ws file, and make sure to NOT do anything at all (not even login), I can connect to this Session by granting the matching session name. So the solution is to open from the .ws and not do anything at all, and then connect using the name you have been granted. Seems a bit scuffed, but it works.