help!! iseries as/400 or tn5250 config

khobbos khobbos khobbos at live.com
Tue Nov 17 11:04:44 UTC 2009


Dear Matteo


10x a lot for your support


i tried tn5250j and it works greatly


but when i run it, its always asking about the connection configuration (it's not saving the connection) :( so each time i need to enter the setting


any suggestion !!




> From: matteo.filippetto at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:10:58 +0100
> Subject: Re: help!! iseries as/400 or tn5250 config
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> 2009/11/16 khobbos khobbos <khobbos at live.com>:
> > Dear sir
> >
> > This is Sami
> >
> > I am trying to switch to open source OS and I start using UBUNTU
> >
> > Usually under windows i use AS/400 client access to work with our IBM V4R4
> > server
> >
> > I download “”iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm””
> >
> > When I try to convert it to .deb using alien I received this message
> >
> > “””sami at sami-desktop:~$ cd ~/Desktop
> >
> > sami at sami-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo alien iSeriesAccess-5.4.0-1.4.i386.rpm
> >
> > [sudo] password for sami:
> >
> > error: incorrect format: unknown tag
> >
> > Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package iSeriesAccess: postinst
> > postrm prerm
> >
> > Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.
> >
> > iseriesaccess_5.4.0-2.4_i386.deb generated
> >
> > sami at sami-desktop:~/Desktop$ “””
> >
> > I try to use the generated (deb) file
> >
> > It install without any error
> >
> > But I can’t find iseries application and can’t run it from terminal (don't
> > know the command)
> >
> > Any suggestion about how to solve this problem?
> >
> > After I gave up I try to use tn5250 emulator which can access our V4R4
> >
> > But again I face 2 problem:
> >
> > First : with window size it is 24*80 and it must configure to be 27*132
> > columns, how can we adjust it??
> >
> > Second : it’s not recognizing Arabic fonts
> >
> > Note that I am using ((ubuntu-9.10-desktop)) and this is the first time I
> > use linux (glad to try so)
> >
> > Many thanks for your support
> >
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> 
> Hi Sami,
> 
> in my company I use tn5250j (http://tn5250j.sourceforge.net/)
> that as better performance and is easly to use. It also has a lot
> of functions.
> 
> Bye bye
> 
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