RE: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!

We hadn't tried on any other platform yet, that isn't good that they are
hard coding it. We where thinking they where developing it for all of their
supported distros (RedHat, Suse, and Turbo).

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!


On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:59, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
> I just heard about this from a co-worker of mine. There is a beta 5250
> client for Linux. I had a look at it, and it is pretty fast. It will not
> work on OS X however :-(. There Ops Nav isn't there, just the 5250 so far.

> 
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/linux/

Hi Mike

It's RedHat specific, unfortunately for me.  Well, it's RPM based so I
guess it might work on SuSE too. I converted it to a .deb file to put on
my Debian box and the programs fail saying they can't find certain
binaries, even though they are on my path - it's looking specifically in
/usr/bin for them. It looks like hard coding to me :( Even when I put
stuff in what it thinks is the right location I can't get a connection
to our AS/400 as it complains about my password (which *is* typed
correctly) and eventually disables my profile :( I'm sticking with
tn5250 for the time being...

The other new thing for Linux on this front is the latest beta of
iSeries Access for Web. That supports all the Linux browsers I've tried
(Mozilla, Firebird, Galeon, Opera & Konqueror) which makes a pleasant
change. 

Regards, Martin
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