Jolly Giant Software - QWS3270 Emulation Features

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QWS3270 PLUS and QWS3270 Secure Features

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

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

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