On 9/29/21 10:39 AM, Miguel Peralta wrote:
Hello, good morning, a nuisance, do you know a 5250 emulator or for
IBM i for MAC? And file transfer? Preferably not using JAVA, I am
going to try the new ACS but I would like another option, since as
far as it is required JAVA
Alas, everything I'm aware of, that will run on a Mac, is Java-based:
our own emulator (we've never figured out a way to distribute it with
license control in standalone form), TN5250J (which is more
fault-tolerant than ours, but the UI is not as nice), and every ACS
emulator I've tried (same comment as TN5250J).
Pity that WRQ Reflection (does it even still exist?) wasn't ported to
run natively on Mac; it's probably the only emulator I've encountered
that I like better than the one I helped write. (Which is to say, I
despised RUMBA with a passion, and despised it even more when it added a
GUI-look status line that still used "alphabet soup" indicators instead
of some approximation [or elaboration] of the status line icons found on
3180s, InfoWindows, and InfoWindow IIs.)
Actually, come to think of it, I seem to recall helping WRQ fix a bug in
Reflection: it wasn't handing "Read Input Fields" correctly. We shipped
them a description of the problem, and a copy of QuestView, so they'd
have something that used a "Read Input Fields" rather than a "Read MDF
Fields," and within a month, they comp'd us a copy of the revised
version. At least, I think it was WRQ Reflection.
But no, I don't know of any non-Java-based emulators that run natively
on anything but DOS (good old WSF, the only one for which an "alphabet
soup" status line was ever even partially justified) or WinDoze.
--
JHHL
midrange.com
