RE: iSeries Access on Ubuntu Linux

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, jim@xxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for the input. I tried tn5250 yesterday but it appeared that the fonts weren't resizable. I'll give the java version a try today. In addition to 5250, I would like to be able to use iSeries Access for the ODBC driver. I've found some other instructions to get that working, but haven't hit on the magic combination yet. If IBM wants to keep the i as a viable platform, they're going to have to get with the program and realize that people are going to want to access it from other platforms, and they need to make it simple(r).

tn5250 has several front ends. I wrote x5250 which is an X11 front end to tn5250 (lib5250 really). The latest version of x5250 includes resizable fonts. x5250 is designed to be very, very light on resources so that many users could run it on the same machine (the original development hardware was a 486 laptop which will still run x5250 if the laptop still worked). If you want to try x5250 grab it from:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250/x5250-0.5.3-pre1.tar.gz

I use x5250 all day, every day. My customers also use it. tn5250j is fancier, but x5250 is all of 258K on a 64-bit machine.

James Rich

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