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  • 1.  Which 3270 emulator for UNIX blockmode applications

    Posted Nov 09, 2016 11:43 AM

    Hi All,

    We are in the middle of our mainframe migration project, and we are making tests with a free 3270 emulator (wc3270) to access our blockmode applications deployed on an AIX server, with SSL.

     

    I would like to know what 3270 emulators are you using?



  • 2.  Re: Which 3270 emulator for UNIX blockmode applications

    Posted Nov 09, 2016 08:25 PM

    I don't believe you can use a 3270 datastream to talk to it. 

     

    You can use an emulator to connect via SSH to a Unix box (quite likely, VT-100), but you have to run the AEF client (see AEF Client ).  But it's a proprietary data stream, not a standard 3270 one.  So you attach terminally to your AIX box then run AEFC from within it.



  • 3.  Re: Which 3270 emulator for UNIX blockmode applications

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 09, 2016 09:25 PM

    Hello,

    In addition to Daniel's comments:

    If you are not deploying the blockmode apps with the Transaction Enabler AEFUF/AEFAD you can either use AEF or if the token OPT.CMD_FORM=YES was set at build time just run the load module executables from command line.

    Testing and Running Applications - CA Gen - 8.6 - CA Technologies Documentation 

     

    Whichever method is used will use the terminal type from TERM environment variable to use the corresponding section of the $IEFH/p3270keys file

    Keyboard Mapping and Terminal Emulation - CA Gen - 8.6 - CA Technologies Documentation 

    Troubleshooting - CA Gen - 8.6 - CA Technologies Documentation 

     

    Hope that all helps



  • 4.  Re: Which 3270 emulator for UNIX blockmode applications

    Posted Nov 10, 2016 06:53 AM

    Thanks Daniel and Lynn,

    We are testing our blockmode unix applications using using NVT mode on wc3270 emulator, and aeft (because we have Tuxedo).

    We are just having some problems for now with the € symbol, so i would like to know what emulators other customer are using to see if they are better than wc3270.



  • 5.  Re: Which 3270 emulator for UNIX blockmode applications

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Nov 10, 2016 05:32 PM

    Hi Roberto,

    It sounds like you might have a codepage related problem i.e. the codepage you are using with wc3270 does not support the Euro symbol

    However like aef and aefc the aeft also has its own built-in 3270 interface based on TERM & $IEFH/p3270keys file, so you should be able to just use ssh (e.g. putty) to the Unix server and run aeft.

    Block Mode Client (aeft) - CA Gen - 8.6 - CA Technologies Documentation 

     

    Regards,

     

    Lynn