RE: PC connection via twinax ?

Mochasoft is $250.00 USD for an unlimited site license.  A single PC can
connect to multiple AS400s.  You can automate a silent install and
distribute via floppy.  It also supports SSL 56bit.  We use it here for all
users and CA Express for IS personal who need the other baggage.  Check out
www.mochasoft.dk  Of course this is not twinax.  We have a 10+ year old
Emerald 5250 board.  The old DOS software it comes with work under 95/98 as
well.  Put that into a PC running something like PC Anywhere and hook up to
your AS400 as CTL01 port 01 switch 0.  You now have a very dependable system
console that you can attach to remotely.  Forget about the other crap that
IBM is supplying.

JMHO

Christopher K. Bipes      mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Operations & Network Mgr  mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.                  http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive     Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928    Fax: 707 586-1884

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Bull [mailto:Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 12:35 AM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: PC connection via twinax ?


I must say that I too must join the band of CA/400 malcontents.  I have
tried and used several other products over the years.  My favourite was IBM
PC Comms, rock steady, simple to use and quite similar to CA, so a very
short learning curve.  My main complaints with CA are - the client is too
big and complex for simple 5250 eml, when that is primarilty all I need - I
use FTP for file-transfer, and the LicPgm for the AS/400 is way too
expensive for simple 5250 eml.  IBM should provide a FREE pc 5250 eml, with
no bells and whistles;  strip out ops nav, data transfer, ODBC and all the
trimmings - those that want or need it, ok, let them buy it, but I should
not have to rely on freeware to sign on to my AS/400s, or be forced to spend
megabucks on CA.