At 12:33 AM 9/12/01, Eric Frazier wrote:
>You forgot to metion the great new feature becoming available. Secure
>telnet, it never existed before very recently for AS/400.
>Secure huh? Yeah. There are companies making web apps for the AS/400 that
>are advertising that you can use the web and it is more secure than the
>traditional 5240 clients because of SSL.
Yes, the internet has made many changes in the world. AS/400 has been
around since 88, and it's precursor the System/38, somewhere in the late
seventies I believe. Primary use of these machines has been as an internal
application server, until recently. The original networking was SNA, not
IP. Communication through remote offices was via private leased lines, not
a public network, so there was little demand for encrypted communications,
although I'm pretty sure it was available, at that time.
Secure telnet is somewhat new to 400, but as I see it, outside users coming
in through the internet are better off using their VPN solution that lets
them access not only the 400, but any peripheral servers and printers as
well. In general, I don't see secure telnet as extremely useful. Also,
the terminology is 5250 client, not 5240.
I would add that folks are welcome to write (or port) existing programs to
the AS/400 -- it does have a C compiler available.
This is getting tangential to the discussion of MySQL however. Perhaps we
should take this offline, or to a more appropriate forum.
Regards,
Rich
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