Pro: A coworker has this product and likes it.

Con: Can not remap the 3270 Enter and NewLine keys (as of September 2018 when checked).

Con: Can not remap the 3270 Enter and Newline keys.

Con: Only supports model 2 and 3 terminals.

Offered this suggestion for Brown tn3270: Turn off 'treat blanks as nulls' in the Tip: Jay Maynard, of Hercules mainframe emulator fame, Here is my outdated (I'm sure) x3270 install page. You do Unix installs when you want to go mano a mano There are many Windows products such as IBM's PCOMM and my company's standard: QWS3270.

Landscape: 40x132 on 1K monitor and 50x132 on 2k monitor.

Remap the PC Right CTRL key as the 3270 Enter key.

Remap the PC Enter key as the 3270 NewLine key.

I want my 3270 emulation go 'above and beyond': TN3270 is the terminal application that talks to IBM mainframes. **I got an 2016 Mac in 2018 because it was sitting in inventory of my local PC guys and didn't cost anything to get. * Technically when I started in DP, we had actual 3270 devices but every PC I had at work was MS/DOS

VMware Fusion - For one application: TN3270! (Windows 10 and QWS3270).

Two external monitors: One in landscape (great for wide 3270) and one portrait (great for PDF manuals).

StarTech Thunderbolt 3 Dual-4k Docking Station

2016 ** Macbook Pro 15 inch - 16gb memory with 1tb SSD.

Use at your own risk regardless.Īfter having a Windows machine for my whole career * in Data Processing, The information on this page can be used for VM and VSE but I have noĪccess to those systems to verify.

iPad Note: I use the term MVS generically to mean MVS, OS/390 and z/OS.

Run Tritus (SPF editor) on the Macintosh.

Here are some notes for fellow mainframers I took along the way I got tired of all of the Windows adware, spyware, viruses and worms so I converted back to the Pink: Yeah, that's easy for you to say, you're Mr. Pink: Why can't we pick our own colors? How 'bout if I'm Mr. MVSintosh :: MVS and Macintosh Planet MVSĪre you gonna bark all day, little doggy, or are you gonna bite?

Mac 3270 emulator