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PC5250 – New with V5R1
Many requested changes have been provided in PC5250 V5R1, such as:
• Additional key mappings
• The ability to enter hex characters (for characters not on the keyboard)
• Eliminate think time in macros
• Displaying the device name on the window
• Support for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) server authentication throughout its functions.
With this release, PC5250 emulation additionally supports SSL client authentication.
Client authentication enables the iSeries server to verify the identity of the client using
digital certificates.
• PC5250 recently added the ability to configure specific workstation IDs (Auto Device
Name Generation). However, setting it up requires editing of the workstation profile. A
GUI dialog is provided on the Configuration panel to set up workstation IDs.
Other enhancements to PC5250 include:
• Display emulation:
– The Undo function keeps a list of all the changes a user is making in the Color Remap
screen and undo just the most recent change.
– Buttons were added to control the attributes that blink.
– A user can click an area of the screen to change colors of a field type.
– An option is provided to prevent recording/playback of hidden fields.
– A new radio button was added to the Edit->Preferences-> Edit... Panel, the Menu Bar
terminology has been renamed to make it more consistent with other Windows
applications.
– The Connection dialog now allows the user to specify if a default user ID is to be used.
• Printer emulation: Users can now use different files (.ws profile -> pcspd.dat) with
certain printer drivers. This option also allows users to have a font mapping table
(iSeries to PC) on a per session basis.
• Administration: 5250 policies were added so administrators can limit end user's ability
to perform:
– Menu configuration
– Multiple session configuration
– Toolbar configuration
– Keyboard configuration
– Mouse configuration
– Automatically add applications to the active menu