Prerequisites for using 5250 emulation

 

You must meet the following prerequisite requirements to use the iSeries™ Access for Linux^® 5250 emulator.

• iSeries Access: The 5250 Emulator is designed to be Linux distribution independent. The dependencies on the Linux distribution are glibc 2.2 and openmotif 2.*. The distribution must also support installing an rpm created with rpm 3.0.

• For version 1.10, monospaced fixed width 75 dpi fonts are required and should be included by default when you install X. To get more font choices, install 100 dpi fonts. For prior versions, 75 and 100 dpi fonts are required to be installed and configured for scalability.

• Using the 5250 emulator in iSeries Access for Linux requires the iSeries Access Family (5722- XW1) license on the iSeries server. One 5722-XW1 user license is used for each unique client or userid that is connecting to the iSeries server. One userid may start multiple emulator sessions to the same iSeries server and only one 5722-XW1 license will be used on the server.

  You can use either the command line option or a global preference (setup5250) to configure the userid and password on a connection. The configuration values, from the one that you choose, are used to obtain the 5722-XW1 license. If both global values and connection command line values are configured, command line values take precedence.

 

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iSeries Access for Linux 5250 emulation

 

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