RE: Access Client Solutions

Alan

The last time I looked at TN5250J I had some of the same concerns about
pushing it out to the user community.

It was just too, well, different. Has it improved that much over the
years?

Bob

From: Alan Campin
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 2:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Access Client Solutions

Just curious. Why mess with it when you have something as good as
TN5250J for free?


On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:05 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Make sure you're opening tickets on that.

They don't issue fixes for it. You'll have to wait for the next
release of that. Date of next release is not public information. I
have nothing to indicate that it's tied to releases of IBM i.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Bob Cagle" <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"

<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Date: 08/02/2013 02:59 PM
Subject: RE: Access Client Solutions
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Rob

I have the error reset key mapped to Left Control, but yes, I have
seen some problems with it not working. Twice in the past week I've
had to close a session and cancel the job because the key just seemed
to quit working.

Other issues I've seen:

I have one session now that just won't start; not sure why.

Minor annoyance, but anytime I use my mouse to switch to a session by
clicking on it, the cursor immediately jumps to wherever my pointer
was in the window.

Icons are different - couldn't IBM at least include the same icons?
Users hate change.

And finally, it takes forever for a session to start. To the point
that the screen is blank with no visual feedback for several seconds
before the session is finally displayed. Granted, I am running from a

network share, but the performance was similar when I tested locally.

All of this put together makes me greatly hesitate implementing this
for the user community.

Thanks
Bob

From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 1:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Access Client Solutions

Having much luck with the Error Reset key?


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: "Bob Cagle" <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 08/02/2013 02:00 PM
Subject: Access Client Solutions
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



Has anyone else been trying out the new java-based Access Client
Solutions? I'm not sure it's quite ready for prime-time yet (unless
you're on a Mac, i.e. Jon Paris!)



I've been using it as my primary emulator for the past week, and
there's enough differences/annoyances that I don't think I want to
push it out to my users quite yet.



Just curious what experiences others are having?



Bob Cagle

IT Manager

Lynk, Inc.