Hi Paul, Sorry for the long delay in replying to your query. I was out of the country for last 2 weeks and I just returned to work yesterday.
I run a perl server program spawning child processes to run s3270 underneath the child process. Each child process caters to a Perl/TK client on the PC. The first screen of the PC application is to capture the mainframe userid and password and transmit the same to the perl server program. The spawned process opens a telnet connection to the host using s3270 and maintains the communication between the client and the host. The Perl/TK application builds the panel with the host data stream transmitted by the perl process. If you need further information, let me know, I will be glad to share the information. Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Raulerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 8:50 PM To: Rengasamy, Samy; 'Linux on 390 Port' Subject: Re: Block Mode Terminal and Terminal Server Programs Could you explain that a little more please? If I understand you, you are serving 3270 data streams to a PC using a PERL program? -Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: Rengasamy, Samy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Linux on 390 Port' <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 6:42 PM Subject: RE: Block Mode Terminal and Terminal Server Programs I did use the s3270 piece of x3270 package to write a server application on Linux/390, serving 3270 screens as Perl/Tk screens on my PC. Currently I am working on to see if I could get a pretty formatted HTML, so I could get the client piece on a browser. I did use perl and perl/expect to write the application. x3270 is an IBM 3270 terminal emulator for the X Window System s3270 is a scripting-only version of x3270 You could download it at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/downloads.html <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/downloads.html> Samy Rengasamy. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Raulerson [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Block Mode Terminal and Terminal Server Programs I wish. :) While it is not difficult to port the silly stuff to using just plain jane HTML (well, with a little javascript thrown in) it is a real trade off on whether it is more efficient or not. Parsing return values from a terminal screen is quite a bit less costly than decoding and parsing HTML query strings. At least I think it is. What I really want is a block terminal emulator for Linux and a matching client piece. Looks like I am going to have to write the doggon thing. (*sigh*) -Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Smrcina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:17 AM Subject: Re: Block Mode Terminal and Terminal Server Programs > One more thing comes to mind about Enter/WEB. I'm pretty sure that it > provides a telnet environment for 3270 terminals, whereby you should be able > to run some portion of your line based (and maybe screen based) VT > applications on a 3270 terminal. > > On Monday 23 September 2002 06:48 am, you wrote: > > You want existing mainframe and AS/400 users to be able to access an > > application on a UNIX machine? Is the application also web based? I don't > > know about the AS/400, but there is a web browser available for both OS/390 > > and VSE. Macro4 markets it and is called Enter/WEB. As long as the > > browser doesn't need to invoke Javascript and other stuff that is not > > inherent to the mainframe (like graphics), it works quite well. On trial, > > I had the opportunity to install and use Enter/Web under VSE. > > -- > Rich Smrcina > Sytek Services, Inc. > Milwaukee, WI > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! > Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. > WAVV 2003 in Winston-Salem, NC. > April 25-29, 2003 > For details see http://www.wavv.org <http://www.wavv.org> >
