Doc Farmer writes:
>While you're at it, you don't know of a 3270 emulator that will 1) work on
a
>Mac desktop and 2) support Japanese, do you? I searched high and low for
>one while I was on assignment in Tokyo last year, and couldn't find one.
>About the closest I could come was to find one that would load on a
Windows
>server, and then have the Mac user log on to that server (but we never
>tested it). I've still got a couple of friends out there who would
benefit
>from a Mac-capable 3270 emulator in Japanese...
WebSphere Host On-Demand fully supports Japanese (menus, 3270 screens,
online help, documentation, etc.) You can load it on any HTTP server,
including a Mac OS X HTTP server. (Unofficially. Truthfully any HTTP server
will do, as long as it has a reasonable file system. Untar or unzip --
whichever you prefer.) It works with either Safari or Firefox on the Mac
client. I think it also supports Java Web Start on the Mac (running
outside the Web browser). I recommend the z/OS HTTP Server -- best place
to install Host On-Demand. Second best place is Linux on z.
It is probably possible to untar/unzip HOD to a local client drive and use
a "file:///" URL in the browser (or Java Web Start) to load it.
Unofficially. There is a documented procedure for doing something very like
that ("SETUP CLIENT") on certain client platforms. Ideally you'll have an
HTTP server so others can join in the fun (and pay IBM a modest fee for
each license, of course).
There's an administrator deployment tool called the Deployment Wizard
that's a Java program packaged as a Windows-only executable. (No, that
wasn't my idea.) If you install it on Windows and know what you're doing
you might be able to move it to a Linux or Mac desktop and run it there.
It's optional, though -- you may not need to run it depending on whether
you want to customize how HOD behaves. There is a documented, manual
(non-wizard) process for customizing HOD start pages if you can't stand the
Deployment Wizard and don't mind text editors.
Main product page here:
http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/hostondemand
There's an older demonstration (two versions back) available from the link
on the left hand menu here:
http://websphere.dfw.ibm.com/whidemo/
That URL's final slash is important in certain browsers.
The "Try Your Own Host, Download Client" flavor is the one I'd recommend if
you want to just kick the tires and not see too many security prompts
asking you to entrust your browser to IBM. (You might see one, though.)
Then go look at "What's New?" in V9 and V10 to get a feature update. They
keep V8 out there just in case you're tempted to use IBM as your HOD
server. :-) It's in English (menus, online help), but you can flip the
3270 datastream to Japanese if you want to see how that works.
Disclaimer: I work for the company that produces this product. But it's
actually a very good product, even if I am biased.
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Timothy Sipples
IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z
Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific
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