Re: Very importand (feature) - please read -- LINUX5250

Hi Patrick
On Friday 27 July 2001 7:30 am, Patrick Bielen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well to begin i want to congratulate the programmers of the tn5250-software
> with their great work... the program is becomming more and more stable and
> user-friendly, and contains some very nice features (screen mapping
> 127*32).
>
> But there are three things i miss, and they are ....
>
> 1. Key-macros as in Client Access for windows.

I'm not aware of anything in tn5250 that offers this - I'd like it too. 
You'll have to see what the developers suggest as an alternative.

> 2. file transfer from or to an AS/400 as in CA for Win.

tn5250 *did* have an asdbget command to get AS/400 data in XML format, but 
that disappeared a while back (at least I don't have it from the current 
CVS). I get round it using standard AS/400 file export/import tools - 
CPYTOIMPF and CPYFRMIMPF. You can use them to get stream files in .csv (comma 
seperated values) and vice versa. I have a free (GPL) AS/400 tool to do a bit 
more in the way of formatting data into .csv format if you're interested - 
see my .sig for details

> 3. the possibility to connect (mount) to share-folders (windows-folders)

You want NFS, not Samba - Samba just won't work with NetServer shares :-(
Have a look at this post I made to the Midrange-L list a while back for more 
details http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200008/msg01002.html If you 
search on my name & nfs in Google's usenet archives, you'll probably get more 
info.  

One thing to be aware of is a ?bug? in the AS/400's implementation of NFS 
prior to V4R5M0 where the mount command in more recent Linux distros won't 
work - you need an earlier version of the mount binary to get your Linux box 
to see the NFS share. SusE 6.4 was okay, later versions not. Mandrake 7.0 was 
okay, but stopped working for 7.1 onwards. I'm using the Mandrake 7.0 binary 
on my Debian box to get NFS shares working okay. Another problem (that I've 
not been able to get round) is accessing folders in QDLS. Trying to work with 
them after they are mounted makes my box very sick indeed :-(

Once you get NFS going lots of fun things are possible. The RUNRMTCMD command 
on the AS/400 doesn't just talk to CA clients - it works fine with the rexecd 
server on Linux/Unix boxen too. I have PDM options set up to drop source 
members onto the IFS and open them up in Vim/GVim full screen - scrolling 
through 65/75 lines at a time beats SEU and means I print out a lot less.

Feel free to contact me off-list if you think this is getting too off-topic 
for Linux5250, though I expect most people on the list have had to sort 
through these issues too.

Regards, Martin
-- 
martin@dbg400.net / jamaro@firstlinux.net
http://www.dbg400.net  DBG/400 - DataBase Generation utilities 
Open Source test environment tools for the AS/400 / iSeries and 
miscellaneous database & spooled file management commands.
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