3270 Emulation Features

The information on this page applies to QWS3270 PLUS and QWS3270 Secure.

New Features for version 4.0:

New file transfer options
The Upload File and Download File options have been restored to the Tools menu. This means you can easily transfer a single file to or from the host..

Graphics 
Added support for graphic emulation (GDDM) to allow graphs and pictures to be displayed.

Field Attribute Support 
Support has been added for the Field Outlining extended attribute. Field outlining allows the field to be emphasized by putting a line on the left, right, top, and bottom of a field.

Support has been added for the field validation functions mandatory fill and mandatory entry. Mandatory fill requires the terminal operator to enter a character for each character position in the field if the content of the field is modified in any way. Mandatory entry requires the operator to enter data in the field. 

- 3278 and 3279 terminal types model 2, 3, 4, 5 and IBM_DYNAMIC

- 3279 extended attributes including blinking fields

- Colour selection for 3270 field types

- Copy, Cut and Paste

- Emulates IBM Light Pen

- Extended data stream including 3279 colours (Write Structured Fields)

- Flexible keyboard re-mapping

- HLLAPI support. QWS3270 PLUS is now considered to be "Windows HLLAPI Compliant".

- IND$FILE file transfer support including structured fields

- Multi-national code page support

- Screen Prints to printer or files

- TN3270 Enhancements (RFC 2355) support

- Type Ahead Buffer support allows keyboard input while waiting for the host to process the last attention key.

- User selectable fonts

- APL character set support

- Enhanced Status Bar processing to provide a visual notification when attempting to type in protected (xPROT) or numeric (xNUM) fields. Simply press the “Reset” key to clear the notification and allow further keyboard input

- Support has been added for the contention resolution feature as per Internet Draft TN3270E Functional Extensions from October 2001. As of this moment the file may be found at www.ietf.org/proceedings/99mar/I-D/draft-ietf-tn3270e-extensions-00.txt but this location may change in the future.

QWS3287 Printer:

- Separate application to allow connection as IBM-3287-1 printer

- Includes support for LU1 and LU3 protocols

- Full compliance with RFC 1646 and RFC 2355

- Send LU3 output directly to print driver. Useful when data contains embedded printer command sequences.

- Page formatting options. 

-Select the number of rows and columns to be printed per page.

- Ability to specify page margins on a printed report. This will enhance the ability to print on pre-printed forms.

- Ability to specify the font size and style used for printing.

- Printer selection by session. Allows automatic printing to a printer that is not the default system printer.

- Toolbar support to simplify access to commonly used menu commands.

- Command line parameters to allow an existing session to be specified on the program shortcut.

Host Connections supported:

- IBM VM TCP/IP

- IBM MVS TCP/IP

- Interlink SNS/TCP

- KNET TCP/IP

- Cisco TN3270 Server for CIP

- NetWare for SAA

- Microsoft SNA Server

- IBM Communications Server for NT, OS/2, and OS/390