RE: CA/400 Woes

Personal Communications is available from IBM Direct (PC sales not AS400)
for about 200USD.  It works great.  Noice emulator, none of the hassles of
Client Access.
Carl

At 10:57 AM 11/24/97 -0600, you wrote:
>David
>
>At 06:53 PM 11/23/97 -0600, you wrote:
>>At 11:04 PM 11/23/97 UT, Brian Lawson wrote:
>>>Life is too short for the hassles of Client Access.  I have wasted days
>>>(maybe 
>>>weeks) of my time with Client Access.  Unless you need ODBC then use a
>>Telnet 
>>>Client until IBM gets it right.  If they want the AS/400 to be the "Server
>>of 
>>>Choice" then they have spent too long fixing this.
>>
>>Does anyone know if there is a way to JUST install the TN5250 part of
>>CA/400?  I don't need the rest... just terminal emmulation.
>>
>>I'd use a simple telnet or the shareware TN5250 that I found, but I kinda
>>like the way I've customized the CA emmulator.
>
>AFAIK, you need to install the Base portion, no matter what. Contrary to
>what I usually say about this kind of thing, it's one of the "benefits" of
>using servers, I suppose.
>
>You *might* try using the Graphical Access piece—no additional license.
>It's "OK", but lacks the neat features of PC5250. Personally, I'd not want
>to lose PC5250.
>
>Maybe get the Personal Communications *product*, separately from CA. Anyone
>used this approach?
>
>HTH
>
>Vernon Hamberg
>Systems Software Programmer
>Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
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>
>
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