Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave The only 100% free 3270 that I'm personally aware of is x3270. You can get it along with Cygwin, which it requires. It sucks. Get Tom Brennen's Vista or Jolly Giant's QWS3270. Both are good as well as inexpensive. I've even run qws3270 under WINE on Linux! http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ http://www.jollygiant.com/qws3270plus.html Both allow you to download a free trial. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 10 November 2009 20:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave The only 100% free 3270 that I'm personally aware of is x3270. You can get it along with Cygwin, which it requires. There is a native windows port, wc3270 that doesn't need cygwin. However its not wonderfull (I think sucks is a bit OTT). It sucks. Get Tom Brennen's Vista or Jolly Giant's QWS3270. Both are good as well as inexpensive. I've even run qws3270 under WINE on Linux! http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ http://www.jollygiant.com/qws3270plus.html Both allow you to download a free trial. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
As John said, X3270 is free-of-charge and comes with CYGWIN. I recommend that you consider CYGWIN, if you are saddled with Windoze, even apart from CYGWIN/X or X3270. X3270 is rough around the edges, but is much better than some X based apps that we tolerate and there is the value of commonality: Same X3270 as you would run on Linux (or Solaris, or AIX, or FreeBSD, or ...). IT IS POSSIBLE to get the CYGWIN build of X3270 (and the requisite X server) to fly without performing a full installation of CYGWIN. I will skip the details unless someone really wants to know. I previously used QWS3270 and I have two close colleagues who would highly recommend Brennan's Vista. -- R; On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 15:07, Tracy, David david.tr...@nielsen.com wrote: All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
Richard Troth wrote: As John said, X3270 is free-of-charge and comes with CYGWIN. Second the motion. X3270 is masterpiece polished over more than a decade. The author still responds to email. Scripting enabled, printer enabled, you're home. -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what it means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
Try the one from SDISW.COM - it's very cheap, I've used it for many years, and you can get a 30-day trial. David Wakser -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Wade Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:47 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 10 November 2009 20:13 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tracy, David Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:08 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave The only 100% free 3270 that I'm personally aware of is x3270. You can get it along with Cygwin, which it requires. There is a native windows port, wc3270 that doesn't need cygwin. However its not wonderfull (I think sucks is a bit OTT). It sucks. Get Tom Brennen's Vista or Jolly Giant's QWS3270. Both are good as well as inexpensive. I've even run qws3270 under WINE on Linux! http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ http://www.jollygiant.com/qws3270plus.html Both allow you to download a free trial. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or Protected Health Information, within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
McKown, John wrote: What sucks for me is the font and keyboard handling. Selecting a font is a royal pain. 'Tis, 'tis. But simplicity is a virtue when software is single-maintainer. The result of hewing close to the X toolkit is that X3270 continues to work and doesn't take lurches with new releases of Qt or whatever you installed last week! -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what it means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
Thanks for the responses From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Jack Woehr Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:05 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM McKown, John wrote: What sucks for me is the font and keyboard handling. Selecting a font is a royal pain. 'Tis, 'tis. But simplicity is a virtue when software is single-maintainer. The result of hewing close to the X toolkit is that X3270 continues to work and doesn't take lurches with new releases of Qt or whatever you installed last week! -- Jack J. Woehr# 'I know what it means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.' - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
Hello, If you intent to allow others MochSoft has a site license for $250.00. We limit it to 24/80 or 32/80 users. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM As John said, X3270 is free-of-charge and comes with CYGWIN. I recommend that you consider CYGWIN, if you are saddled with Windoze, even apart from CYGWIN/X or X3270. X3270 is rough around the edges, but is much better than some X based apps that we tolerate and there is the value of commonality: Same X3270 as you would run on Linux (or Solaris, or AIX, or FreeBSD, or ...). IT IS POSSIBLE to get the CYGWIN build of X3270 (and the requisite X server) to fly without performing a full installation of CYGWIN. I will skip the details unless someone really wants to know. I previously used QWS3270 and I have two close colleagues who would highly recommend Brennan's Vista. -- R; On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 15:07, Tracy, David david.tr...@nielsen.com wrote: All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello, If you intent to allow others MochSoft has a site license for $250.00. We limit it to 24/80 or 32/80 users. Why would you? Because you don't deserve large screens at such a price? ;-) I find 66x145 very productive on a 20 screen (with Tom Brennan's Vista) but I suppose that depends on what you need to look at. Rob
Re: Freeware 3270 emulation on Windows XP to connect to z/VM
h3270. Web based, and also allows GUI overlays. h3270.sourceforge.net On 11/10/09 3:07 PM, Tracy, David david.tr...@nielsen.com wrote: All, Is there a freeware 3270 emulation package anyone can recommend? Thank you... ...Dave
