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5250 Client

The Motif 5250 emulation program provides a wide range of features for communications with AS/400 systems.

Motif 5250 Emulation Program

The Motif 5250 emulation program provides 5250/5251 connectivity to AS/400 systems.

Each user may have a number of sessions (limited only by the available system resources), used for:

  • 5250/5251 display emulation, including support for monochrome or color operation and large screen model (27 x 132)
  • SNA Character String (SCS) printer emulation.

Multiple sessions appear as separate windows and can be viewed simultaneously. A Motif session control window allows the user to activate and deactivate sessions.

The program supports a range of single-byte and double-byte host languages, including right-to-left languages.

Local copy printing is supported (both host-initiated and locally-initiated).

File transfer, similar to PC Support/400 and Client Access/400, is available using a separate command-line interface.

Customisation of the emulation display is provided using a text style file. The user can:

  • modify the screen color and highlighting or the keyboard mapping
  • specify the host language
  • define frequently-used sequences of keystrokes which can be replayed as required.