Universal Send Data to Virtual Terminal
The Universal Send Data to Virtual Terminal utility (UNVVTSND) facilitates working with a virtual terminal session. A virtual terminal session is essentially an interactive job that is associated with a 5250 terminal. The primary use case for this utility is to allow the scripting of an interactive job session from a batch environment.
Functions
The UNVVTSND command provides the following basic functionality:
- Open a virtual terminal session
- Close a virtual terminal session
- Send data and key presses to a virtual terminal session
- Retrieve data from a virtual terminal session
- Validate the current state of a virtual terminal session (e.g., the existence or nonexistence of values on a current screen)
- Message handling facility (respond to “Display Program Messages”)
Detailed Information
The following pages provide detailed information for UNVVTSND: