[ale] OT:Automated Oracle Screen Data Population

[Armsby John-G16665]

I apologize for being really off topic BUT...

Where I work, we utilize Oracle (8?) business modules (Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing, etc.).  The interface, believe it or not is a telnet session where the user hand keys data into text based forms and invokes obscure function keys to enter and retrieve data.  It is almost identical to the old TSO, IBM mainframe CRT terminals of the 70's and early 80's.  Disgusting.

SOMEWHERE I remember reading about some utilities which enable the user to create programs, scripts, or macros which mimic human entry into this type of database environment.  I was thinking of set up some sort of GUI based system, depending upon the utility, where we could efficiently enter the information, and then let the computer push the data into the telnet forms.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

John



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