Does anyone know of any free or open source terminal emulators that will emulate an IBM 3151 terminal or an HFT terminal (aixterm)?
We have some offshore contractors that need access to some of our systems that need a 3151 or hft emulation, but are having issues transferring licenses of Hummingbird HostExplorer to India. For that matter, if we could save on US Hummingbird licenses it would be beneficial as well.
Thanks!
I doubt you'll find an open source or free emulator for this terminal type. While IBM has contributed to open source communities, they are also very interested in protecting their intellectual property. Hummingbird licenses are certainly expensive. We ran into issues with that when I worked for IBM!
That said, I never needed a specific terminal type in order to access AIX systems, as we used OpenSSH (comes with AIX 5L). Is there some reason why you can't provide SSH access to these systems to your contractors?
Yes, it boils down to the function key emulation. Legacy code that is very Fkey laden. Thanks!