Re: HTML5 5250 emulation?

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

I was going to suggest it but then I held back for the reasons you 
stated.  It has long been on my list to update.  It goes back almost 2 
decades, so from that angle the code base is ancient.

I have been able to crawl out from under my workload in the past month 
and hope to get that and a related project back on it's legs.  I have a 
few preliminary projects to get out of the way and hope to tart up the 
rest of my projects as well. No timeframe currently so I can't be a help 
to you in the sort run.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek  IBM_i_Geek
 

On 1/17/2020 11:36 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> A colleague of mine has been researching this question independently 
> of me, and independently of this List. Here's what we found:
>
> Web5250 (Pete's Workshop, open source):
> I just now realized that this was one of the possibilities that Mark 
> Waterbury brought up off-List. We've been experimenting with it, but 
> so far, there have been problems. Part of it seems to be that it's 
> based on a relatively old TN5250j codebase; I've found that unlike 
> IceCap (which seems to be more a screen-scraper than an emulator), it 
> doesn't do a very good job of overriding browser fonts (with the 
> result that screen displays that depend on monospaced fonts can become 
> almost unreadble) or browser function key definitions (especially F3 
> and F12, with the result that it's relatively easy to get an emulation 
> session stuck in a screen with no way to exit it). Does anybody here 
> have any experience with it?
>
> Greenscreens (open source version):
> The GitHub page for that is up front about saying that the developer 
> has abandoned the open source version in favor of a commercial version 
> that they developed from scratch, and my colleague gave up on trying 
> to make the open source version work. All he could find on the 
> commercial version have been pictures of it.
>
> Web5250 (Paulo McNally, open source):
> I can't even get to the GitHub page my colleague found for this, and 
> my colleague said he'd given up on it.
>
> IBM i Access for Web:
> Does anybody here know anything about this at all?
>
> IceCap:
> I've tried the demo of this. It seems to be more of a screen-scraper 
> than an emulator. Very slick, but at least in the demo, if I drag the 
> demo link Niels Liisberg posted to two different browsers, I don't get 
> two terminal sessions, but rather, two separate views of the same 
> terminal session.
>
> Does anybody here have any experience with any of the above? The 
> principal object here is to incorporate a web-based emulator into the 
> web UI of our CRM product, and to allow for scripting the emulation 
> session similarly to what we already do with our Java-based emulator).
>
> --
> JHHL