RE: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!! -- MIDRANGE-L

>I don't know why they charge for emulator access other than to have a way 
>to charge shops for each user accessing the system.

Last I heard, Rochester charges for emulator licenses because Rochester has
to pay for emulator licenses. The emulator isn't an iSeries product, it some
from Raleigh (if memory serves) and Rochester has to move internal "funny
money" to Raleigh for the license. So to keep from showing a loss on the
emulator they change a (nominal) fee. 

The parts of Client Access that they write (file transfer, ops nav,
odbc/oledb, etc.) they don't have to pay for and as such they don't charge a
fee for.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Whisonant [mailto:Chris.Whisonant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 4:40 PM
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Subject: Re: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!


Not necessarily. If you have an iSeries you always are able to install the 
iSeries Access emulator. However, if you try to connect to an iSeries on 
which you haven't added licensing info. for iSeries Access you will be 
unable to connect through the iSeries Accesss emulator. Other 5250 
emulators will work fine without requiring licenses.

I don't know why they charge for emulator access other than to have a way 
to charge shops for each user accessing the system. No biggie for some of 
my systems - I just don't pay for the licenses and can use iSeries 
Navigator and another emulator. 

One other feature that is licensed is data transfer.

Chris Whisonant
Comporium
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IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - iSeries Technical Solutions V5R2
IBM Certified Associate System Administrator - Lotus Notes and Domino 6
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So the one thing they normally charge for, they have available free?

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They don't charge for the client software. However, to access a server 
using iSeries Access 5250 emulator you do have to have server licenses per 


connecting user. Most, if not all, of the iSeries Navigator functions do 
not require licenses.

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I think he express software they don't charge for, you jsut have to have
licensing for certain functionality on the AS/400 end, right?

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> As far as charging goes, that's a good question.  After all, what parts 
of
> iSeries Access for Windows are no charge, and what part are chargeable
> items?
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> Rob Berendt
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> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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> Even if they decided to support SuSE and Turbo, there are still dozens 
on
> Linux distros that they don't support.  Even if they made it work on 
every
> Linux, it still wouldn't work on the BSDs, Solaris, OS X, etc, etc.
>
> I wish IBM would release these things as open source products!   Then,
> none of these compatibilty issues would be a problem.   What does it 
gain
> IBM to make their free software proprietary?   Why limit people if 
they're
> not going to make money on it anyway?
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> Or were they planning to charge for the Linux versions in the future?
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> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
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> > 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).
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