Re: Connecting a Thinkpad to the AS/400

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go with the Ethernet!!!!

At 01:35 PM 7/26/97 -0500, Bob Cozzi wrote:
>So, I'm giving up on trying to successfully connect my IBM Aptiva to the 
>AS/400 using an IBM 5250 PCI card and Client Access/400 for Windows 95/NT 
>version 3.1.2.
>
>I'm going to connect using my ThinkPad, and hope that works.
>
>So my question is (Neal are you there?) what can I use to connect to the 
>AS/400? I only have a twinax adapter on the AS/400. I want have it work. (I 
>know that's a big request for Client Access, but what else is there.)  I 
>have to do emulation and file transfer (upload and download). That's it.
>
>Should I get a 5250 PCMCIA card, if so who's?
>
>Or, do I need to get an Ethernet adapter on my AS/400 and a 3COM card in my 
>ThinkPad?
>
>Which one will work more often? And/or is there another option?
>
>
>Bob Cozzi
>P.S.  Client Access does not download data to the PC the same way (using 
>the same translation tables) as PC Support did. PC Support, in my opinion, 
>did it correctly, CA/400 does it incorrectly. Specifically, if I do a 
>STRCPYSCN to a database file, then I download that file to the PC using 
>Client Access, the transfer generates errors. In addition, the data is NOT 
>the same as it was with the exact same file, downloaded with the good old 
>PC Support  RTOPC.EXE program. 
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Carl J. Galgano
cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.   
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