Re: AS/400 client -- LINUX5250

hI,

Here is another one for you.

Cursor positioning is poor. The cursor always goes to the first input field
on th display. It does not go where the AS/400 program tells it to go. For
me this is EXTREMELY important. I have clients who will NOT accept software
that functions like this.

When writing AS/400 programs cursor postioning is all important and can make
the difference between a user friendly system accepted by the client and one
that is rejected. Personally I can struggle on with your tn5250, always
needing to tab to the field I want to input, but I need to test the cursor
positioning on displays written for clients. To do this I must reboot into
MS Windows and use the Client Access version.

I am forced to use Windows for AS/400 development because of this problem. I
rarely use Linux. I am even considering that Linux may be a waste of time
and reclaiming the disk space for use with Windows.

Things have to improve if Linux is ever going to catch on in the end user
market place!!!!!

Syd Nicholson
Castlehill Computer Services Ltd.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Romani" <antonio_r@libero.it>
To: <LINUX5250@midrange.com>
Sent: 13 December 2000 20:46
Subject: R: AS/400 client


Hi then!

Here some words about "tn5250 isn't reliable..." I mean that it's poor in
many functions usefull for the user, for example GUI printer configuration,
connections setting-up, automatization of log-ins, file transfer to and from
AS/400 using SQL queries, drag 'n' drop, copy and paste function, etc, all
futures daily required by the user job. In addition tn5250 doesn't come with
a menu for the keyboard setting-up with various standard keyboards
pre-selected, US, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, it doesn't have a fonts
database to enhance the compatibility with various systems, etc...
Ok, you can be a programmer, a power user, a system administrator, ok, but
the greater part of users in a Office contest, doesn't have many computer
skills and so it's impossible and difficult to use a non user friendly
interface, no?
If you see the GUI of Windows NT IBM Client Access or NS/Elite or Bosanova
TCP/IP client, you'll find out that these softwares are easy, easy to use
and easy to setting-up (to customize) in every part, from printer to screen,
etc...

BUG REPORT:

-I found that in tn5250 0.16.00pre2 (and 0.15.x) when i change the screen
dimensions, the quality of the displayed fonts isn't correct, I see all
confused, it's probably for an erroneous font re-scale?
-Some characters doesn't appear in the correct manner, the characters are :
� � � � � �, why?

REQUESTS

In which ways I could correctly configure my keyboard? (Italian one) For
example, to log-out from the AS/400 system I have to push the Command-11
button (F11), but it isn't work actually on my tn5250 client, the same if i
want to do an undo action, i must push the command-12 button (F12), but it
doesn't work. I'm sure that the keyboard must be configured, but it's not
much simple, isn't it? How I could do?

GREETINGS

Long life to tn5250 project! Excuse me for my words, but I didn't want to
splash with the mud the tn5250 project, it's only because I have some
configuration-problems" ARGHH!!!

That's all folks! Bye-Bye!!!
               0-NeT

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