RE: 5250 choices

["BORING, David" <dboring@xxxxxxx>]

Joe,

A former company I worked for used Perle controllers for this purpose.
The Perle box connects to a comm cable off the AS/400 and looks like a
5394/5494 with 5250-type terminals on it. The nice thing was that the
"terminals" were actually modems hooked up to async ports on the Perle
box.

We would then pre-configure the PerleTalk software on a floppy disk for
the customer and send it to them with instructions on how to install the
program. It was DOS based, but I think Perle has a Windows version now. 

It's not the most elegant of solutions, but it limits the /400 to
outsiders getting too much info from you.

David Boring
Systems Engineer
MCI Systemhouse
Direct: (562) 809-5460
E-mail: dboring@shl.com


-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:44:52 -0500
From: Joe Teff <jteff19@idt.net>
Subject: 5250 choices

We need to allow many customers to dial up to an AS/400 (V4R2). We will
be giving them
a menu with a few options. They will be controlled by the program, so
they can only run
the options on the screen. I need to give these people 5250 emulation,
but no extras like file
transfer, etc. I have heard of TN5250, but have never used it so I do
not know if this is my
answer. Does anyone have any recommendations or solutions? This will be
dial up and not
internet. Thanks.

Joe Teff
Information Technology Consultant
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 RPG Programmer
Quality Data Systems
Minneapolis, MN
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