Re: AS/400 internet conection

TN5250E is a specification that extends the traditional TN5250 (telnet)
terminal emulation specification for TCP/IP.  IBM (late to the TCP/IP game)
hung on to micro-channel PC's, token ring, OS2, and SNA for far too long.
It has not even been a year that AS400 users have been able to name their
own device over TCP/IP having to live with randomly named telnet devices
(QPADEVnnnn) which made for an unusable system.

TN5250e(xtended) added some much needed functionality for TCP/IP users on
the AS/400:  New security and automation enablement has been added to the
AS/400 Telnet server
including exit program support, virtual device selection, printer
passthrough, session reconnect support, expanded national language
flexibility, and optional bypass of the sign-on panel.

For laymen it means we can now name our display and printer devices; print
using a named device (including more printer controls as compared to the
limited LPR/LPD support), and have an automatic signon.  Coming in V4R4
will be SSL (secured socket layer) support (yes, we will telnet over the
internet someday ma).

Disappearing now will be the Windows based clients that are based solely on
SNA typically using the the clumsy, hungry NSRouter.  Bye bye.  

Appearing are robust TN5250e clients boasting all you ever had over SNA but
with less overhead and fewer hassles (yes, I do know the dif between less
and few).  

There are many TN525e clients on the market today from shareware (http://
www.mochasoft.dk) to first party (I like Synapse NetWolf (http://
www.synapse.com) to IBM Express CA/400 ((http:// www.ibm.com).  Demos are
generally available from the net.

At 03:32 PM 4/14/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>     When connecting your developers over the internet, you can now use
>>     TN5250E and request specific devices, do SCS or HPT print jobs to the
>>     remote printer, and encrypt the signon using the QRMTSIGN *verify
>>     option.  We have tested with V4R2, and V4R3 and it works very well.
>>     It should work with any V4 release (appropriate PTF's required).
>
>Is TN5250E a product that is sold by anyone in particular? Can you download
>it from the net?


Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
(415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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