Re: IBM iAccess

I love the iAccess client on my Mac. It is a lot better for me than most of the other Mac Emulators, all of which has some annoying characteristic or other. Guess I am not in the majority! :) 

I actually still like the old PWC emulator that ran on Windows 95. It had great mainframe, iSeries, and even ascii emulation on it, and served my needs just perfectly. 

-Paul 

On Oct 17, 2014, at 09:13 AM, Jeffrey Tickner <jtickner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I started using this also on my Mac (10.9.5).
The IBM i Access Client Solutions.app that is supposed to launch doesn’t work, I put a shortcut to the acsmain.jar on my toolbar to launch
I don’t get any kind of terminal window, just the management window I can launch the emulators (etc) from.
The emulator seems to work pretty well from my usage so far.
The absence of the normal mac menu function, preferences etc isn’t a huge deal to me.

You would think with this new partnership with Apple that IBM would be offering better OSX support, like RDi!

Thanks

Jeff Tickner
Arcad Software

       >        >        > date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 18:29:10 -0400
       > from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx      >
       > subject: IBM iAccess
       >        > Since it is the official IBM solution I?m trying to use this new product on my Mac. To say I?m disappointed/underwhelmed so far is to put it mildly.
       >        > No hot-spot recognition that I can find (unlike TN5250J, Mochasoft and others).
       >        > Doesn?t even pretend to be a native app. Other Java based tools that I use appear just like any other Mac app. This one launches a terminal window (DOS prompt for the Windows?ites) which _has_ to remain active or the app dies. This despite the fact that it is documented as Mac specific.
       >        > Any other Mac users got any suggestions for me before I just give up and go back to wrestling with customizing TN5250J?
       >        >        > Jon Paris
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