IBM Standard EHLLAPI

EHLLAPI is a standard programming interface which allows programmatic access to a host emulator session. Functions are provided for reading host screen data (such as the characters and attributes), for sending keystrokes, and performing other emulator-related functions.

The EHLLAPI interface is a single call-point interface. There is a single callable API through which all EHLLAPI functions are requested. On each call to the interface the application provides a function number which identifies the function requested, a pointer to a data buffer, a pointer to the length of the data buffer, and a pointer to a return code (see EHLLAPI Call Format).