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In <omZPzsbnbxpQ089yn@ibm.net>, jamesk@ibm.net (James Knott) writes:
>In article <5hh4el$2m4@client2.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>
>>>Unless a company is using an AS/400 or IBM mainframe, they'll not have much 
>>>use for Communications Manager/2.
>>
>>Unless a service they could be using is using AS/400.....how
>>shortsighted of IBM...
>
>I'm still trying to make sense of what you wrote.  However, if someone is 
>talking to an AS/400 etc., there does happen to be a "lite" version of 
>Communications Manager/2 included with every copy of Warp 4.
>

Actually it's the entry level of TCP/IP version of Personal
Communications/400 + 3270 for OS/2.  Communications Manager/2 provides 
direct SNA support through Ethernet, Token Ring, X.25, and Twinaxial 
(5250 terminal connection) or Coaxial (3270 connection). 
TN3270 and TN5250 are already free and available with Warp 
v3.  The one on Warp v4 is much more enhanced.  Considering that it can
cost as much as Warp v4 itself to get a TN5250 for Windows, it's a boon. 
You actually don't need Communications Manager/2 bundled with OS/2 
because CM/2 is already bundled as part of Client Access/400 for OS/2 
which in turn is bundled in the AS/400 side.  To use Twinax means that 
you can connect and network your OS/2 PC on the *same* cable 
infrastructure as your 5250 dumb terminals to the AS/400 without 
Ethernet, Token Ring and associated routers.  It's not fast however, but
the output is similar to a T1 line (1MBs).

To use TCP/IP version of PC/400 bundled with Warp, you have to set up 
the AS/400 for TCP/IP, which I recommend as a preferred protocol over 
SNA.  SNA and CM/2 takes up way a bit too much overhead in my tastes, 
and I do get the feeling from IBM that SNA is on the way out in favor of
TCP/IP.

If the AS/400 already has an address in the Internet, cool.  You can 
login to it via TN5250 or PC/400 through the Warp internet support.

Rgds,

Chris


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