Re: IGEL Thin Clients -- MIDRANGE-L

We use Neoware thin clients. They have some emulator - we decided to use
Client Access instead.

On 3/4/05 03:43 PM, "ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> In a more generic sense, can anyone think of any issues where subfile type
> displays may cause problems for users in one emulator compared to another
> emulator?
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> We had no trouble with the IBM 5250 emulation that we used for years with
> the Netvista 2200 thin clients and are having a fair number of the session
> crashes occur
> on the same displays/applications running within Powerterm.  We are working
> with IGEL support on things from the thin client/Powerterm side, but I want
> to find out
> any other ideas that will get us on a path to figuring this one out!
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> Thanks for thinking about...
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> Chad
> chadb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> We have recently implemented some IGEL based thin clients that are based on
> a flash chip added to our older IBM Network Station 2200s.  For the most
> part, things have worked ok, but now we are seeing a number of problems
> with the way that the Powerterm 5250 Emulation is working.  We have a
> number of users that are working within a session and suddenly the session
> is gone... the user's interactive job also disappears immediately from the
> system side and is gone from the subsystem.  This typically occurs when a
> user is keypunching, or paging up or down within a subfile type screen.
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> In addition, the screen refresh speed within Powerterm seems very slow and
> is especially a problem with displays that update the screen in a rapid
> function (think of a utility that scans through a number of files and shows
> each file at the bottom of the screen as it scans, or the responses from a
> ping command).  These types of functions can now take a number of minutes
> to complete (5,10, etc.) rather than well under a minute.
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> I'm interested to talk with some users that may be using IGELs (either the
> Network Station upgrades or the full IGEL clients), and also to see if
> anyone is seeing any similar issues with Powerterm.
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> In comparison, we ran the IBM Network Stations (now have been unsupported
> for several years) on this same hardware with the IBM emulator and never
> experienced either issue.
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> If anyone has any thoughts... please respond!
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> Thanks
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