Does anyone know of a way to direct connect an iSeries to a magnetic stripe card reader?
I found this device but it does not go into much detail on how to talk to it. Would I be able to use the sockets API to talk to this type of device?
http://www.computerwise.com/ethernet/ep310.html#terminal_emulation
I really do not want to get into having a windows system setup to collect the data and then try to get that up to the iSeries. I have used 5250 connected time clocks but that is a bit overkill for my need. Which is to just let students swipe a card to clock in/out of a location.
Or something a little more robust
http://www.computerwise.com/time/ec305.htm and use F1 to clockin and F2 for clockout. This one would store internally and the FTP client in the iSeries could pull the data.
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