Re: Connect to AS/400 from Advan

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I thought it might be telnet, but nobody here has told me for certain.  If it
is telnet, would I be able to use one of the telnet clients I've heard about
on this list before?

I've asked about TCP/IP access, but we just don't have it yet.  They do have
something called Metaframe here, but are limited by the number of lines and
the "stability of the Citrix server".  I've been told that this is much more
preferred for remote AS/400 access than Advantis.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
At 15:44 11/21/2000, Dan Bale wrote:
>I'm likely going to soon see some additional workload which will require me
 to
>access our AS/400 from home on a temporary basis.  The most likely option I'm
>going to have to be able to do this is to dial up into Advantis and login to
>our AS/400 from there.  One of my colleagues has described his experience
 with
>this as extrememly unreliable in terms of his ability to stay connected; he
>says it's not his end of the connection that's failing because his other
 modem
>connections work just fine.  Establishing and re-establishing a connection
 can
>be very time consuming.  And the keyboard mapping apparently uses a
>mainframe-like setup.
>
>Does anybody have suggestions to improve my working environment within the
>constraints of Advantis?  Especially with the keyboard mapping, which I
>understand is a real nightmare.

You're apparently either talking about using telnet or TN3270, both of
which provide less than wonderful support for 5250. I use CA Express via
TCP/IP, and it's quite stable. If you can connect via TCP/IP, I'd expect
that you could use it also.

Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/
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