millia@athena.cs.uga.edu (David W. Millians) (02/14/91)
Here's a general query for those out there: Does anybody have a Novell netwrok connected to their AS/400 or (less interesting to me) System/36 IBM? I would like to know what benefits this provides (i.e. multiple sessions for people on the network without twinax hookup, front-end to AS/400 database possibilities) along with any horror stories. Furthermore, does anybody with this hookup have an Appletalk nw running from their Novell hookup? We're looking for possible answers down here at my job, so please let me know. If you like, respond by e-mail, and I will summarize. Otherwise, I guess we'll find out over the net. Thanks in advance. -- David W. Millians millia@athena.cs.uga.edu University of Georgia, Athens GA USA. "What exactly is UNIX, Mr. IFF?" "It is a P2C2E, thief Haroun, on a M2C2D." (Apologies to Salman Rushdie) I guess all opinions are mine and only mine.
johnston@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston) (02/15/91)
David,
We have just completed installing a site which used Novell's SNA
Gateway to an AS/400, allowing all users on the LAN we installed (10baset
ethernet) to access AS/400 sessions. we used novell's 3270 workstation for dos
and did keyboard re-mapping to make up for the 5250 emulation on the keyboard.
we did this because we could use a product called connecting room from
helix software to swap the 3270 software into upper memory, and with loading
the netware shells high, we provided approximately 550k of dos useable memory
for our users to be able to run a large clipper application and hot key to
their as/400 sessions, which were running vertical market software.
the connection to the as/400 was done with a token ring connection.
oh, i wouldn't recommend using pc support to anyone, even if i really hated
them. well, okay, if i really hated them, but only then.
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