> From: "John D. Slayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 1:21 PM > > > Is there any free (NOT SHAREWARE) TN3270 client that I can download > > off the net please? Can anyone list some good free ones that there I > > can find?
John, all The z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler open source project www.z390.org offers another alternative for supporting TN3270 client. if you download and install the latest z390 v1.3.00 for Windows or Linux, you will find it has a Graphical User Access Method (GUAM) option which includes basic TN3270 client supporting full screen TGET and TPUT macro svc interface. There are demos including DEMOGUI6 which illustrate support of multiple tabbed fields, numeric fields, color, PF keys, etc. The z390 GUAM TN3270 support written in J2SE Swing GUI Java could easily be combined with the new z390 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) client server messaging support which uses J2SE Java TCP/IP sockets support. The result would be a functioning TN3270 client on a TCP/IP network. I will add a demo z390 TN3270 client driven by another z390 server running on the same TCP/IP network in the near future. All that is required to start testing this new z390 option is to pair up the existing TGET and TPUT interfaces to the GUAM TN3270 client interface with the existing TCPIO SEND and TCPIO RECEIVE interfaces. There is also an existing SOA client server demo using the TCP/IP support for messaging. It may well take a little work on the part of interested z390 project members, but the result will be a portable open ended TN3270 solution. On a related note, prolific z390 project developer Melvyn Maltz has a brand new proto-type CICS transaction processor up and running using z390 with some very interesting initial transaction rate statistics with z390 transaction manager using CMDPROC multi-tasking support to drive multiple transaction processing tasks. z390 is written entirely in J2SE Java and supports the assembly and execution of mainframe assembler on any platform supporting J2SE. z390 includes extensive demos and regression tests and has been fully tested on Windows XP/2000 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Linux. To learn more stop by the SHARE presentation in Tampa, Florida on Monday Februrary 12, 2007 at 3:00 PM, visit www.z390.org, and join the z390 user email group discussion. Don Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
