Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > As part of a replacement for a 12 year old system at a customer site in > Japan, we will be replacing PCs running Windows 95 and IBM's PCOMM 3270 > emulator with new PCs running Vista (don't bother) and a PCOMM > replacement from IBM called Host Access Client Package. This new > package comes with two pretty hefty price tags: approximately $1,000 > purchase price per PC and approximately $250 per PC per year license > fees. > > We will have 40 PCs. I can live with the $40K one time purchase cost > even though I think it is pretty high but it seems absurd that the $10K > license fees are 1/4 of the purchase price. In my experience, this is > not the type of package that gets updated very often (actually I've > never seen a 3270 emulator update). > > Does anyone have any experience with this Host Access Client Package? > Are the fees comparable in other countries? Do other packages (Extra, > Rumba, etc) charge annual fees? > > I would love to use one of the 3270 emulation products frequently > mentioned here but I'm going to need ammunition to hurdle the political > inertia. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > >
Take a look at the windows version of the x3270 program at http://x3270.bgp.nu/download.html I use the Un*x program on my workstation (FreeBSD) and it does everything I need to connect to the mainframe. The bean counters love it since its totally free. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL ---- Almost any problem can be solved by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. --Doctor Who ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
