Re: TN5250 server for linux ...

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since nobody has responded to this, I'll give it a shot:


On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Paulo Roberto Garcia wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>   Is there any TN5250 server program that can do may linux box to comunicate
>   to an IBM 5250 terminal ? 


Most IBM 5250 terminals are Twinax.  Do you know of a twinaxial local
workstation controller for the PC?  If not, how would you attach the 5250
terminals?

Or are you just trying to connect via ethernet?   If so, Mike Madore was
working on a "tn5250d" for awhile, I don't know if he ever finished it.


>   I have some cobol programs running on my AS/400
>   an I'd like to run these same programs in my linux box. Can you help me ?
>   I hope so !!! :)))
> 

Attaching 5250 terminals to your Linux box would not enable you to run
your COBOL programs on it.   In order to run COBOL programs, you'd need a
COBOL compiler...  then you'd have to copy the source over and recompile
it.   You'd probably have to make numerous changes, since the architecture
of the AS/400 and Linux machines are RADICALLY different.

Once you got them running with a Linux COBOL compiler, of course, you
would no longer need 5250 terminals... you'd simply use the standard 
terminal types for Linux.


Perhaps a more appropriate option would be to look at an OS/400 emulator,
or similar product?  I've never seen one for Linux -- but some exist for
Windows NT.



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