I would suggest looking at http://www.bluezonesoftware.com/ It will still come with annual fees but I would think a lot less. Regards,
Nigel Bowen -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of IBM-MAIN automatic digest system Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM-MAIN Digest - 23 Feb 2009 to 24 Feb 2009 (#2009-55) There are 100 messages totalling 4845 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. USS and C (5) 2. ACF2 ENQ problem after Upgrade (7) 3. Problem with RACF dataset profiles 4. ACF2 ENQ issue after upgrade 5. Deleting UnExpired dataset using JCL (15) 6. z/OS 1.11 and CICS TS 4.1 preview announcements 7. Bursts of high paging (3) 8. SMF log stream dump utility enhancements in z/OS 1.11 (3) 9. SMPE/HFS issue: (2) 10. Pedantic Tape Analyzer? (4) 11. OSA's Error codes 12. JES2 exits and ACF2 13. New public course: Assembler intro 14. Performance 15. Long overdue upgrade (3) 16. 3270 emulator cost (14) 17. What do you call... (19) 18. new ftp userid (5) 19. Deleting Unexpired dataset using JCL (2) 20. FDR Backups for Linux? 21. File Transfer Issue (3) 22. Screen size (was 3270 emulator cost) (3) 23. UnixSS and C (3) 24. Moving datasets with DFDSS COPY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:06 -0800 From: "Schwarz, Barry A" [email protected] Subject: Re: Long overdue upgrade 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
