How to Connect to Mainframe from VB6.0

Hi friends,

I need to connect to mainframe system from VB application and then I have to call a CICS transaction by providing some input values to the transaction.

Then the CICS transaction will provide the output values. I have to fetch those output values.

I am not supposed to directly fetch the data from Mainframe DB2 database.

Any idea how to proceed.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Sumit Ghose

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First thing you need to find out is your access method. Some people access server systems through TelNet or something similar, although I am in no way a knowledgeable person in this :-)

Speak with the people who want you to do the accessing...ask them what method the access is to be done through...then come to us and ask how :-)

Do they use a Terminal Emulator program to connect to the DB2 db? If so then most TE's have scripting and/or DDE support and the newer ones have VBA support too.