Re: AS400 Access from Internet

[Glenn Gundermann <ggundermann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Herb,

The following is heresay since I don't have first-hand knowledge of this but was
told by someone who I believe is in the know.

IBM's Workstation Gateway (WSG) is free and already on the AS/400 although it
lacks some function and IBM has not enhanced it in quite a while and does not
plan to.  My plan is to configure WSG myself and get it going for the same 
reason
you wrote.

A more robust program is I/Net's Webulator/400 but there's a $ cost.  You load
the software on the AS/400 and a plug-in to the client browser and away you go.
You have a lot of customization of the appearance and keyboard mapping etc.

You can get a trial version of Webulator.  I plan on doing this as well to
compare the differences between this and IBM's WSG to justify the cost.

I have nothing to do with either company, just a plain old end-user.

Hope this helps.

Glenn Gundermann
Ronald A. Chisholm Limited
Toronto

Herb Henry wrote:

> Company just received their 9406/170 and is interested in connecting to
> the Internet.  What they want is their remote employees to loggon the
> Internet and access the AS400 from there.  That way they don't have to
> fuss with dial-up lines or accessing from clients' sites.
> I have not found much of anything that I could determine would be
> useful.  If anyone could shine some light on the situation/references, I
> would greatly appreciate it.
> Thank You.

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