Dear Colleagues:
 
We, a state agency that supports a Community College system, use HP3000s
heavily.  There are, however, times when our users must login to another
agency's IBM mainframe to enter data (employee insurance registrations)
into their system.  Our users are requesting that we come up with a means
for them to enter the data (once) on their HP3000 and have it update the
other agency's IBM either in the background or in batch.
 
The obvious solution (at least for us) was to create a batch file to feed
the changes to the IBM system.  We do this with other agencies, labor
unions, and banks -- no big deal.  It turns out that the other agency
does not want to write a batch update/interface to their system.
 
I guess what I am wondering is, are there tools that might read a file
and feed it to the IBM as if a user were keying it in.  It would
obviously need to be smart enough to trap errors and keep itself
synchronized.
 
If there are other approaches, I would be pleased to hear them also.
 
Thank you for your thought and time.
 
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