RE: Thin Clients and the AS/400

Webulator is not bad but if you are viewing it from a 5250
terminal/Rumba/PC5250 perspective I think you will be
disappointed.....nothing against Webulator but it is the functional
differences between a browser and terminal emulation.

However, with the network stations you may use the browser to access Notes
(you may want to check if there are some gotchas- I seem to remember issues
with calenders) and use the Telnet client to access AS/400 screens.  I know
this doesn't solve your question of one interface but you can do it with
one device relatively simply.  The TN5250 that comes with the network
computer is fairly nice and falls somewhere between a terminal and PC5250.

FYI - JDE recently (June 98) gave an endorsement of the series 1000.....you
can find more out at
http://www.pc.ibm.com/networkstation/news/seagull.html.




Andrew Reed <areed@magsoft.com> on 09/22/98 02:18:55 PM

Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

To:   "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
cc:    (bcc: Mike Crump/IS/Ball-Foster)
Subject:  RE: Thin Clients and the AS/400




There are definitely some options for browser-based access to your
AS/400 apps. If you're not thrilled with WSG, you may want to check out
I/NET's (www.inetmi.com) Webulator. Webulator does on-the-fly conversion
of your AS/400 data stream to HTML for presentation via standard
browsers. I thought IBM was going to adopt Webulator as their standard
web access product for the AS/400, but don't know what's going on with
that. I am not affiliated with I/NET, nor do I sell their products.

More developers are providing web enablement for their software. Here at
Magellan Software, for example, we provide browser-based access to our
COLD and imaging repositories...

Andrew

     -----Original Message-----
     From:     Gary Feinstein
     Sent:     Tuesday, September 22, 1998 2:33 PM
     To:  MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
     Subject:  Thin Clients and the AS/400

     Is anyone using Thin Clients on their network?  I am about to
implement
     JDEdwards to a Wide Area network.  We also use Lotus Notes
(which will
     soon be running on AS/400 NT IPCS).  I'd like for all my users
to be
     accessing these two systems via a similar interface.  Whether
this is
     the way to go or not, I'm not sure but it sure sounds like a
     possiblity.  Is anyone using a browser to access thier native
AS/400
     applications?  How bout Notes?  I have enabled the Work Station
Gateway
     on the AS/400 however I'm not crazy about it.  Does Net.Data
enabled
     this functionality?  Any thoughts, comments, concerned are
welcome!
     Thanx,
     Gary Feinstein
     AS/400 Systems Manager
     Planet Hollywood International, Inc.
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