RE: Connecting a blackberry to a i5

Are you stuck with the Blackberry solution?  The access I have with my Palm
based Treo over Sprint is awesome.  I get my email, have a VPN client and
can telnet with a 5250 emulator to ANY of our AS400s.  I don't know much
about the Blackberry, but understand they run a proprietary OS.
The best Smartphone I ever owned was the LG TP-3000, but it's lack of open
OS (ie Palm or CE) made it worthless.  I know there are some Symbian based
TN5250 emulators out there, but I don't think the Blackberry runs Symbian
either.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: York, Albert [mailto:albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 4:37 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Connecting a blackberry to a i5


I don't have a blackberry so forgive my ignorance. 

You can use any telnet client with the AS/400 , as long as it supports
VT100, which most do. I have to imagine that the blackberry has such a
client.

It won't be pretty but it will work.

Albert York                          


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[SMTP:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Handy
        Sent:   Friday, May 28, 2004 1:14 PM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        Re: Connecting a blackberry to a i5

        Paul,

        >You should be able to use MochaSoft Tn5250 from the Blackberry to
get to 
        >the iSeries once you get thru the network.

        I don't think MochaSoft has a Blackberry version of TN5250.  From
their FAQ at
        http://www.mochasoft.dk/faq.htm :

          "Question: Can any Mochasoft terminal emulator run on a Blackberry
device

          "Answer:
        Mochasoft does not sell any products for the Blackberry platform. On
most
        networks (not the Nextel 6510/7510) it is not possible to make
direct TCP
        sessions between a Blackberry device and an AS/400, and such an
environment will
        therefore require a special BlackBerry Enterprise Server in order to
perform
        network connections. "

        Doug
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