Question: How to make zti log all host screens?

[pjfarleyiii]

I would like to be able to record all host screens in a zti session in order to prepare a python ati script that will navigate those same screens. I have tried in an --rcfile file setting DISPLAY to HOST and TRACE to ALL but that does not populate the zti.log file with the host screens.

Any help you can provide will be much appreciated.

[najohnsn]

Not something you can do today. If you write a program that goes through the screens using the ati APIs, you can get a log of the interactions. But manual interactions mostly do not get logged today.

The original IBM-internal ATI tool upon which much of the ati/zti function was based had this sort of recording feature. This is the first request I've heard of to have this function in ati/zti. A good idea for an enhancement.

[pjfarleyiii]

It is a real shame this feature is not already available. I have been browsing through the ati.py code to see if something could be quickly copied over to zti.py just to get the host screens, but I'm not seeing it yet. Will keep on looking in my spare time and let you know if I see something easy to do.