Re: PC5250 full screen problem

I have never changed my resolution (other than New Year's) - I found I can just change font and get better results.

Make your emulator session non-maximized - then in the Edit menu go to Preferences->Appearance->Font. (You can't change font when maximized for some reason - you can in the new ACS emulator)

You probably are using IBM 3270 with Automatic sizing checked. Keep Automatic sizing checked in the following.

I suggest trying Consolas or PComm Session - or some other fixed-pitch like Lucida Sans Typewriter or Lucida Console.

I find that Consolas does the best for me - it fills the windows vertically and keeps the aspect ratio of the characters consistent - 80-character is centered and wide sides, while 132 covers the whole width.- the Lucida faces also work nicely.

PComm Session can be weird - for me, at least. It seems to fill the session window both vertically and horizontally. 80-character gets a different aspect, so my eye doesn't like it.

What is curious is that PComm Session works best for me in the new ACS (Access Client Solutions) emulator (I'm not sure how new - it's based on Host-On-Demand, the long-lived Java-based emulator, I think.)

I am on Win 7 on 24-inch monitors, 1920x1080 resolution. Maybe if I changed resolution, the IBM 3270 would work out, but I don't think I'll go there!

HTH
Vern

On 6/29/2015 4:43 PM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

James:

As far as I can recall, IBM's Client Access PC5250 emulator has always had this problem. It has to do with the underlying screen resolution. With newer PCs and monitors, you can set the Windows resolution to much higher than say, 1024 x 768, which was about the maximum at the time that software was written. As a result, when you maximize the window, Windows knows how to make it full the screen, but the PC5250 client software apparently does not understand those larger screen dimensions.

You can (at least temporarily) have the user change their screen resolution -- right-click on the desktop and select "Properties" or "Personalize" and then under the "Display Properties" Settings tab, change the screen size to closer to 1024 x 768. That should "resolve" this particular issue.

I am not sure why no one has opened a PMR to get IBM to fix this yet, after all these years?

HTH,

Mark S. Waterbury

> On 6/29/2015 4:58 PM, James Rich wrote:

I have a customer that reports that sometimes when they maximize the PC5250 window the font doesn't grow large enough so that the text doesn't completely fill the full size window. So while the window itself is maximized, there is a one or two inch "border" between the window edge and where the window content is. Has anyone else experienced this and has a solution?

James Rich