Re: AS400 Access from Internet

[bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Clark)]

We use I/NET's Webulator/400.  I?NET is the company that originally
wrote IBM's WSG.
The only drawback is the HTML conversion of 5250 displays slows down an
already slow
dial up connection.  This can be minimized with the proper formatting of
the 5250
displays but... I understand that the Java based green screen emulators
are a little
bit quicker.  I am referring to products such as Jacada and Javantage. 
I don't know
this for sure because we have not experimented with them.

Glenn Gundermann wrote:

> 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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