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Be careful with compatibility as Windows is concern. Some of these emulator cease to support new Windows OSes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Bale" <dbale@samsa.com> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: Looking for the perfect 5250 client... > O.k., this is it. I am looking for the "perfect" 5250 emulator client. In > short, I can say that the good features of Client Access (v3r2 is what I > currently use) make it an ideal client for me. But CA carries a lot of > baggage, and sometimes I am forced to use other 5250 clients because of > limitations. The one that I am currently forced to use as some clients' > AS/400s don't have CA installed, is a dud called ViewNow currently marketed > by NetManage (more on that below). > > The good that keeps me coming back to CA: > Primarily, when using the green screen, I don't even know the mouse exists; > I am definitely a keyboardist in this mode. I also use a *lot* of MS > Word-type of copying/pasting and cursor navigating in the course of my daily > work: > - Ctrl-C: Copy selected text into clipboard > - Ctrl-V: Paste clipboard > - Shift-Cursor: Select text in the direction of the cursor key being used. > > When editing source, I colorize comments quite a bit. I need an easy way to > do this. CA has a macro function available for this that I assign to a > popup keypad and to a few keyboard key combinations. I will *not* succumb > to copying attributes from a "color" source member set up for this purpose. > > The 27x132 mode is very readable. I do all my editing in this mode. > > Frankly, I don't think these features would be all that difficult to > achieve. However, my (admittedly limited) experience with other vendors' > 5250 clients has left me unfulfilled. I have yet to find one that will let > me do the customization I described above. (If any of you know of one, > please let me know!) The aforementioned ViewNow is a piece of cr*p, you > need a support contract to report bugs (!!!), and, anyways, NetManage isn't > enhancing or fixing it anymore (but they'll be glad to sell you Rumba). Woe > be to you if you type a non-numeric in a numeric-only field, or try to type > past the end of a mandatory field-exit field with this client; the Reset key > doesn't fix it, and we (finally) discovered that you have to SysReq and > return to get the keyboard to unlock. Bleaahhh. > > The other "new" thing I've encounted is connecting to remote AS/400s thru > VPN. I discussed this in a previous thread. The IP address points to our > server, and then a pre-defined port on that server "VPNs" to the remote > AS/400. CA v3r2 does not seem to support this. ViewNow does. Do other > clients support this? > > I am wondering if the open-source 5250 client I've seen discussed here would > allow me to do the customization I require "out-of-the-box". I would be > willing to develop something for it, if it is possible, and is within my > skillset. > > Comments would be most certainly appreciated. > > - Dan Bale > (I am *NOT* "Dale" > http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200105/msg00281.html ) > SAMSA, Inc. > 989-790-0507 > DBale@SAMSA.com > Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. > (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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