TN3270 Plus: Features -- Terminal emulation for 3278, 3279, 5250 VT100 and VT220 terminals.

TN3270 Plus Feature Summary

If you are a current customer and want to see all the features added since your release of TN3270 Plus, take a look at our Version History page.

Standard Features

Multiple sessions:	Connect up to 99 (increased from 9) concurrent sessions in a single window. You can also start multiple sessions in multiple windows.
Printing:	Print screen and print preview.
Screen capture:	Capture and save screen images to a log file.
Terminal Activity Logging	Log your terminal activity to a disk log file.
Lockdown Settings:	Prevent users from changing session settings.
DDE:	Use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) to allow your Windows applications to communicate with a terminal emulation session.
WinHLLAPI:	Use Windows HLLAPI (WinHLLAPI) to allow your Windows applications to communicate with a terminal emulation session.
Toolbars:	Dockable toolbar with buttons for commonly used commands. A status bar that includes the Operator Information Area. A customizable floating keypad toolbar with buttons for terminal keys.
Fonts:	User selectable fonts, scalable fonts and incremental font sizing.
Keyboard Mapping:	Fully customizable keyboard for 3270, 5250 and VT100 sessions.
Customizable Mouse:	Customize the buttons on your mouse.
Color:	User selectable color.
Clipboard:	Cut, cut append, copy, copy append, paste (block, overlay block and stream modes) and print.
Keyboard macros:	Record keyboard input and store it for later use.
Scripting Language:	Use the scripting language to automate common activities.
Response time display:	Displays a response time histogram for each session.
Address book:	Save your session connection information in the "address book."
Automatic Reconnect:	An option that automatically reconnects any session disconnected by the host computer.
Automated Installation:	An installation wizard leads you through install and uninstall.
Hotspot Support:	Allows words on the terminal screen to act as AID generating keys or active URL links.

Terminal Emulations

3270 Terminal

Protocol:

TN3270E (SNA over TCP/IP and TN3270).

Terminal emulation:

IBM 3278 models 2 - 5
IBM 3279 models 2 - 5
IBM 3279 (customizable size)

File transfer:

IND$FILE file transfers.

Resource name support:

Specify a resource name (LU name, device name or device pool name) for a session.

Dynamic Screen Size:

The screen size will change dynamically when an application uses an alternate screen size.

Selector pen:

Support for selector pen (light pen) detectable fields.

Host Language Support:

Select a host language code page for keyboard character translations.

3270 null/space processing:

Converts nulls to space characters before data is transmitted to the host. This simplifies insert operations and eliminates character shifting when characters are deleted from a line.

Whole field delete:

The delete key affects the whole field if it wraps from one line to another.

5250 Terminal

Protocol:

TN5250

Terminal emulation:

5250 (24 x 80 and 27 x 132)

Device name support:

Specify a device name for a session.

Selector pen:

Support for selector pen (light pen) detectable fields.

Host Language Support:

Select a host language code page for keyboard character translations.

Print key:

Support for the 5250 print key.

VT/ANSI Terminal

Protocol:

Telnet

Terminal emulation:

VT100 (customizable size)
VT220 (customizable size)
ANSI and SCO ANSI

Optional Features

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

SSL Protocols:

SSL v2, SSL v3, TLS v1

Encryption Strength:

128-bit

OpenSSL:

TN3270 Plus SSL support includes software developed by the OpenSSL project for the OpenSSL toolkit. This feature includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young. This feature includes software written by Tim Hudson. (See the OpenSSL license agreement.)

SSH (Secure Shell)

SSH Protocols:

SSH v1, SSH v2

Encryption Strength:

128-bit

IPv6

IPv6:

Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

Print

LPD:

Adds the SDI LPD Line Printer Daemon (LPD) to the configuration allowing you to print host print files on your PC or network printer.

3287 print support:

3287 print support allows you to route host 3287 print jobs to your PC or network printer. This feature supports IBM zSeries only.

5250 print support:

5250 print support allows you to route host 5250 print jobs to your PC or network printer. This feature supports IBM iSeries only.

FTP

FTP:

Adds the award-winning SDI FTP to the configuration allowing you transfer files using the file transfer protocol (FTP).

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TN3270 Plus Feature Summary

Standard Features

Terminal Emulations

3270 Terminal

5250 Terminal

VT/ANSI Terminal

Optional Features

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

SSH (Secure Shell)

IPv6

Print

FTP