JPH0675882A - Collection/delivery system between terminal and host - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically execute a collection/delivery processing to plural data between a terminal and a host. CONSTITUTION:On a terminal side, a terminal side environment definition file 9 for storing data which becomes an object of collection or delivery, and information of a data transmitting/receiving file is arranged, and also, the inside of a terminal side collection/delivery processing program 7 is provided with an environment definition information read-in processing part 22 for expanding information in the terminal side environment definition file, an automatic collection/delivery control processing part 23 for controlling a collection/delivery processing in accordance with its information and information from a host, a data input/output processing part 24 of the file in which the data which becomes an object of collection and delivery is stored, a data communication processing part 25 for transmitting and receiving the collection /delivery object data, and an environment definition information updating processing part 26 for updating the information in the environment definition file.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data collection / distribution system between a terminal and a host computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional data collection and distribution system of this type, when performing complicated processing such as handling a plurality of data at a time, a normal operation instruction from a terminal operator,
Or, much manual work such as selecting data to be collected and distributed has occurred.

[0003]

A data collection and distribution system between a terminal and a host computer requires processing of a plurality of data at a time due to the complexity of the entire system. Furthermore, some data is only distributed and some data is distributed. Is only the reception,
In addition, certain data are required to provide detailed services such as collection and distribution. In addition, unattended operation may be required due to nighttime batch processing and the like, so that the manual operation of the terminal operator may not be permitted. However, the conventional collection and distribution system described above has a drawback in that it is not possible to simultaneously satisfy such detailed service and automation.

[0004]

According to the terminal-host inter-collection distribution system of the present invention, a terminal-side environment definition file for storing data to be collected or distributed and information of a data transmission / reception file is arranged on the terminal side. An environment definition information read processing unit that expands information in the environment definition file in a terminal-side collection and distribution processing program; and an automatic collection and distribution control processing unit that controls the collection and distribution processing according to the information and information from the host, An input / output processing unit for a file that stores data to be collected and distributed, a data communication processing unit that transmits and receives data to be collected and distributed, and an environment definition information update processing unit that updates information in the environment definition file are provided. It is characterized by that.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1 showing an embodiment of the present invention, the present embodiment has a host computer system 1 having a host side communication management program 2 and a host side collection / delivery processing program 3, and a host side data storage file 4. ,
Consists of a plurality of terminal systems 5 each having a terminal-side communication management program 6 and a terminal-side collection / delivery processing program 7, a terminal operator input / output device 8, a terminal-side environment definition file 9, and a terminal-side data transmission / reception file 10. To be done.

FIG. 2 is a detailed diagram of the terminal-side collection / delivery processing program 7 in the terminal-host collection / distribution system of the present invention. In the figure, the terminal-side collection / delivery processing program 7
Is an environment definition information read processing unit 22, an automatic collection / delivery control processing unit 23, a data input / output processing unit 24, a data communication processing unit 2
5 and the environment definition information update processing unit 26.

The environment definition information read processing unit 22 reads the environment definition information from the terminal side environment definition file 9 and expands it in the program. The data input / output processing unit 24 inputs / outputs collected / delivered data to / from the terminal side data transmission / reception file 10, and the data communication processing unit 25 transmits / receives data to / from the host computer system 1 through the terminal side communication management program 6. The automatic collection / delivery control processing unit 23 uses the data input / output processing unit 24 and the data communication processing unit 25 to send data to the host computer system 1 according to the information developed by the environment definition information reading processing unit 22 and the information from the host side. Data is transmitted or data is received from the host computer system 1. Environment definition information update processing unit 26
Performs status update processing at the end of transmission / reception of each data.

In FIG. 3 showing an image diagram of the environment definition information, the terminal side environment definition file 9 stores transmission / reception file definition information 32. Send / receive file definition information 3
2 can be provided in plural, and each of the transmission / reception file definition information 32 includes a data identification code 33, a transmission file definition 34, a transmission status 35, a reception file definition 36, and a reception status 37. .

The data identification code 33 is a logical identification name of data, and for one data, the transmission file 3
4 and the received file 36 can be defined. When the transmission process or the reception process is performed, the transmission status 35 or the reception status 37 is “unprocessed”, and the transmission status 35 or the reception status 37 becomes “processed” after the processing is completed. In addition, the transmission status 35 or the reception status 37 also has a status of “processing failure” during business processing.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 4, which shows the operation of the automatic collection / delivery control processing unit of the present invention, in a timely manner.

In FIG. 1, it is assumed that data collection and distribution processing is performed between the host side collection and distribution processing program 3 and the terminal side collection and distribution processing program 7. In addition, it is assumed that the session is opened automatically from the terminal side or the host side. After the session is opened, the terminal-side collection / delivery processing program 7 is automatically started, and the environment definition information reading processing unit 22 reads the transmission / reception file definition information 32 from the terminal-side environment definition file 27 and expands it in the program.

The automatic collection / delivery control processing unit 23, the data input / output processing unit 24, and the data communication processing unit 25 according to the request classification (collection / delivery request or distribution request) sent from the host side and the transmission / reception file information after the session is established. And the environment definition information update processing unit 26, and the operation as shown in FIG. 4 is performed.

First, according to the request classification from the host side,
A process selection 41 is performed. That is, if the request classification is “collection and distribution request”, it is determined to perform the reception process 61.

In the case of the transmission process 51, the transmission process from the terminal is performed for each transmission / reception file definition information 32. That is, if the transmission status 35 is "unprocessed", the data is read from the transmission file 34 (53),
When the data is transmitted (55) and this operation is repeated to end normally, the transmission status is updated to "processed" (56), and if it fails in the middle, it is updated to "processing failure" (56). When the process for one transmission / reception file definition information 32 is completed, the process proceeds to the next transmission / reception file definition information 32. In the same manner, the processing for all the transmission / reception file definition information 32 is performed, and the end processing (58) is performed until the session is closed.

In the case of the receiving process 61, the flow of the process is almost the same, but if the data is not registered in the host side even if the receiving status 37 for the receiving file 36 is "unprocessed", the receiving process is performed. However, the reception status 37 remains "unprocessed".

As described above, the transmission process or the reception process is performed from the terminal side according to the request classification from the host side. The data to be sent and received is registered in the terminal-side environment definition file 9 and the data whose transmission status or reception status is “unprocessed” is automatically selected. If you register in 9 and set the status, the transmission process for each data,
Reception processing or transmission / reception processing can be automatically performed.

Since the status is updated from "unprocessed" to "processed" after the processing is completed, even if the host side erroneously makes a "concentration request" or "delivery request" twice. , Double transmission from the terminal side or double reception at the terminal is not performed.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, the collection / delivery processing program is arranged on the terminal side to realize the automation of the collection / delivery processing. Furthermore, since the environment definition file is used to manage the transmission / reception file of a plurality of data and the status thereof, the collection / delivery processing can be performed on a plurality of data according to the occurrence status.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed diagram of a terminal-side collection / delivery processing program in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a detailed diagram of a terminal-side environment definition file in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of an automatic collection / delivery control processing unit according to the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 host computer system 2 host side communication management program 3 host side collection / delivery processing program 4 host side data storage file 5 terminal system 6 terminal side communication management program 7 terminal side collection / delivery processing program 8 input / output device for terminal operator 9 terminal side Environment definition file 10 Terminal side data transmission / reception file 22 Environment definition information read processing unit 23 Automatic collection / delivery control processing unit 24 Data input / output processing unit 25 Data communication processing unit 26 Environment definition information update processing unit 32 Transmission / reception data definition information 33 Data identification code 34 send file 35 send status 36 receive file 37 receive status

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A terminal-side environment definition file that stores information of data to be collected or distributed and a data transmission / reception file is arranged on the terminal side, and the environment-definition file is stored in the terminal-side collection and distribution processing program. Environment definition information read processing unit that expands the information of the above, an automatic collection and distribution control processing unit that controls the collection and distribution processing according to the information and the information from the host, and the input and output of the file that stores the data to be collected and distributed. An inter-terminal host inter-collection system comprising a processing unit, a data communication processing unit for transmitting and receiving target data for collection and distribution, and an environment definition information update processing unit for updating information in an environment definition file.