RE: Green Screen access for customers - suggestions?? -- MIDRANGE-L

There are several TN5250 clients available that are inexpensive and provide
only terminal emulation. 
Some of them are not Synapse Net Wolf. <VBG>  List member Albert York has
one, and there is a shareware product put out by Mochasoft.  Seems to me
that you can also set C/A up for only terminal emulation. TN5250 clients are
very small, easy to install and don't claim to be a part of your operating
system.  Many of them have all their resources in one directory and make no
registry entries on certain MS operating systems.

If you go with TN5250, bear in mind that there's still FTP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A. Manske [mailto:manske@pconline.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 12:04 PM
> To: 'MidRange AS/400'
> Subject: Green Screen access for customers - suggestions??
> 
> 
> Hello; I am a Sr. Project Lead at a distribution company.
> We have customers that would like to dial into our AS/400
> have restricted access through the AS/400 security
> and be able to change their SRP's.
> 
> Here is the issue; we do not want to use Hyperterm; too 
> clumsy and not very nice to look at.
> Our preference would be Client Access - 
> I am unclear of the IBM licensing issues with regards
> to this option; not to mention the thing that concerns us the most
> is the security issues with regards to being able to do file uploads
> and downloads.  
> 
> With this in mind, is there a way to set CA up so that you do not
> have access to upload/download; short of burning your own copy
> and leaving out the *.EXE's that perform those functions; or 
> having to go to each customer site to install CA and "remove
> features" after the fact.  This all in all would still not stop a 
> savvy "geek" to get a full copy of CA and still have access to 
> upload/download by re-installing it.
> 
> Bottom line, is there anything our there that functions like
> the old dumb terminals we all grew up with (ok I'm dating
> myself, I have worked on a S/3 , S/34, S/36, S/38 (mod 8)
> talk about needing a whole floor for a system)
> 
> It does not matter if they call our server or the AS/400;
> I am just looking for thoughts and ideas to how this 
> could be accomplished economically for our customers
> and simplistic for the company so the knowledge can
> be passed on painlessly.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help..
> 
> 
> 
> Mark A. Manske      [mailto:manske@pconline.com]
> Sr. Project Lead
> Minter-Weisman
> 
> 
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