Justin:
Regarding IBM i Access Client Solutions and licensing on the IBM i host for
it, you cannot buy the Licensed Program Product directly from IBM, you'll
have to go through your business partner, although almost 100% of the
systems I've dealt with have access licensing on them.
Keep in mind there is no charge for the Access Solutions client itself, you
may download and distribute that software within your enterprise at will.
The licensing is on the host server.
Before you contact the business partner check the following:
Is 5770XW1 loaded on your system now (that's the software that does the
licensing for Access)
WRKLICINF. Scroll down to 5770XW1 and put a 5 on it. If it has usage
limit *NOMAX (most do but it might be a number) that's licensed. F12
Put a 5 in front of "5770XW1 V7R1M0 5101 IBM i Access Enablement
Support". Scroll down one and if it shows Expiration Date *NONE your system
is properly licensed.
To obtain the Access Client Software you must download it from ESS first, in
order to accept the license agreements. After that you can download it
directly from the Access web pages without ESS. There are point by point
instructions on the Access Web site to accomplish that action (which is a
PITA but needed for the software license)
You may not have needed the detailed instructions but others that visit the
list and archives sometimes do....
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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Justin Dearing
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 10:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Miscellaneous 5250 stuff
Hey,
Rather than spam the list with a bunch of emails I made one for all my 5250
queries.
I went through github and sourceforge and found the 5250 projects that
seemed mature, and added them to the wiki. Is there a more comprehensive
list on the internet, or is this the place for them? Perhaps it would be a
good idea to populate alternativeto.net with them as well.
On that subject, tn5250 was my favorite non-client access emulator back in
the v5 days. I used it on linux and windows. Recently, on a v7 system I've
found it crashy on windows. Have others had that experience? Is this a known
issue with the latest version of client access or when talking to the lastes
versions of the OS?
One final open source question. Has anyone played with IDE400?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ide400 Any english documentation on it?
Finally a non open source question. I don't see a place on the ESS site to
just give a credit card number and buy client access. Is that even possible
as a consultant who doesn't own a machine?
Justin
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