Re: tn5250 Newbie Questions....

[Carey Evans <carey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Bottorff <prenzl@futureks.net> writes:

> When I log onto our AS/400 I am immediately shunted over to a COBOL app,
> end of story. I cannot get a regular, interactive AS/400 session.

You could try entering QCMD in the initial program field of the signon
screen.  However, this is probably disabled.

> However, the client we use, WRQ Reflection, has a "transfer" option
> which produces a nice raw file transfer dialog box with quasi-SQL
> capabilities (and COM capabilities).

WRQ Reflection uses the OS/400 Host Servers:

    http://support.wrq.com/techdocs/1415.html

tn5250 doesn't have any support for these.

For getting at these services from your own programs, the only free
software I know of is IBM's own Java Toolkit for AS/400.  You can get
binaries or source from the web page here:

    http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jt400/

and write your own program in Java (or Jython, or Jacl, etc.).

-- 
         Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

            "Quiet, you'll miss the humorous conclusion."
+---
| This is the LINUX5250 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to LINUX5250@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to LINUX5250-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to LINUX5250-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---