Open sourcing is good; dropping functionality in the process, not so much. Reminds me of ooRexx, where IBM did not open source the OM and WPS classes from OREXX.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of René Jansen [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences? Just installed TNZ (on an M1 Mac) - looking good, and the more emulators the merrier. Thanks for posting this link, and the medium article, would not have found out how to disarm SSL on my own easily. I have to admit to mixed feelings seeing this: on the plus side, it is very good to release this open source. On the minus side, it used to be a Rexx related tool and was (afaik) not very generously given out to customers. I remember having to script ehllapi in Rexx to do some of the things this can do in a more simple way. For me, the time to de-Rexx this could have been spent to add GDDM support. But you don't hear me complain about free and open source. It is good to see the rexx.py source, which implements some Rexx BIFSs in Python - I have already saved that for useful usage. Being a ZOC user on the Mac and Windows and a C3270 user on Linux, I have to find out a few things. First and foremost, how I can get a LINEFEED on the [Enter] key, SEND mapped to right-ctrl (or right COMMAND on the Mac) and CLEAR to the right Option key on the Mac. Because this is how 3270 keyboards were meant to be used and most people who complain to me about 3270 do not know this. Secondly, I did not figure out the copy/paste yet. This is an important function that a lot of the commercial emulators did not get exactly right, and is also a weaker point of C3270 (depending in which shell you run it). The medium article refers to anti.py for documentation. Is there some more doc I have to be aware of? best regards, René. > On 17 Nov 2022, at 12:05, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now if it would only support GDDM style graphics orders like PCOMM does... > DJ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
