TN5250 for iPhone - iPad
Frequently Asked Questions for TN5250 ?
General
- Version overview and known bugs
- Difference between Lite and Paid version
- What type of SSL is used
- Cannot make a connection to the AS/400
- How to connect to an AS/400 from the Internet (EDGE)
Troubleshooting
- Version overview and known bugs
TN5250 v 1.1 has been released 5 August 2008Problems solved in v 1.1
- - In 27x132 mode , the screen update failed
- - Only US EBCDIC codepage worked
- - Connect dialog could crash
- - Reset configuration, did not work
- - If the EDGE network was passive, a connection would fail
- - Selecting another font, would later pop up the Navigation bar in the 5250 screen
- - DNS problem with OS 3.0 has been solved
- - Better screen handling
- - Removed delay in 27x132 mode
- - In OS 3.0, the auto-correction option (Settings - General - keyboard) could give a crash
- - Support for iPad
- - Better screen handling
- - new keyboard layout for iPad
- - limited support for wireless keyboard
- - faster Del key
- - VGA video output
- - new keyboard layout for iPad portrait
- - new configuration dialogs
- - support for OPTICON 2002 scanner
- - camera as a barcode scanner
- - printer
- - url load:
Start tn5250 from a web browser using
mochatn5250://
or
mochatn5250://abc
If there is not an open session to an as/400, tn5250 will start a session using a configuration named abc
TN5250 v 1.7 has been released 31 August 2011
- - Support for Linea barcode scanner
- - Auto connect in settings
- - More barcode options
- - Solved configuration saving problem
- - Some configuration screens with ipad in portrait could crash
TN5250 v 1.8 - has been released 12 December 2011
- - 2 x click on zoom icon locks the screen. Useful when scanning a barcode
- - updated for iOS 5 and Linea scanner API
- - solved issue with saving more than one session
TN5250 v 1.9 - has been released January 4, 2012
- - Some AS/400 systems has problems with the new iOS 5.01 and TLS 1.2. See Technical Note TN2287
- - added Ins key in iPad portrait mode
- Difference between Lite and Paid version
Compared to the Lite version the full version has:- Fxx key board
- Another cool numeric key board
- What type of SSL is used
TN5250 can use the SSL protocol build into the iPhone OS.Cannot make a connection to the AS/400
Either- wrong IP address for the AS/400
- The Telnet server is not running on the AS/400
- A firewall stopping access on port 23.
- The iPhone/iPod is not on the same network as the AS/400
- How to connect to an AS/400 from the Internet (EDGE)
To allow a connection with the iPhone on the EDGE network or another wifi network, maybe at your local Cafe, you must configure the router/firewall protecting your office network to allow traffic on port 23 or 992 if using SSL. This could be a security risk! Read the router manual for advice.An example:
I have a router at my office, which connect to the Internet. It has IP address 88.1.2.44 on the Internet. The router has a fixed IP address on the Internet, if your internet provider (ISP) gives a dynamic address, a solution could be to use a service as NO-IP
Our Office AS/400 has a fixed IP address on the local network (wifi) at 192.168.2.2
In the router firewall configuration I have configured, if it receives data on port 23 (or 992 if SSL is enabled in TN5250), forward it to 192.168.2.2.
When on the EDGE network with the iPhone, I will in TN5250 as AS/400 IP address write
- 88.1.2.44 , and as port 23 (Not the IP address for the AS/400!)
- Only US EBCDIC codepage works
There is a bug in v 1.0. Only EBCDIC codepage 037 can be used. This problem will be solved in v 1.1
- Program terminates in the connect dialog
In TN5250 v 1.0, there is a bug, if the keyboard is shown in the Connect dialog, and the user press "Host List" in the title bar. Close the keyboard with [Done] key in the keyboard, before using "Host List" . Will be solved in v 1.1
