I am constantly switching between the qwerty, fn, navigational, and numpad keyboards. The other knock I would express is no fully functional keyboard in landscape mode. The platform with uptime stats that cannot be surpassed IMHO. Still a four star app if only because at least someone remembered us dinosaurs on the iSeries. TN5250 / TN5250E emulators available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This function wasn't available when app was released so hoping for an update that does. Fusion5250 is the only emulator that runs IBM 5250 terminal programs natively in a. Oh and one more thing.no multitask support. You can zoom the session while in portrait which is somewhat of a help but I would much prefer qwerty, fn, and navigational keys all be available in landscape mode.Īll in all though the app is useful, stable, and makes mobile support so much nicer than toting around my brick of a laptop, All of these keyboards can be made active in portrait mode but session display is too small to be used on long term basis.

Bluetooth keyboard performs flawlessly in all other apps. I also had a devil of a time keeping the keyboard connection alive while on VPN. The limited wireless keyboard support is overstated as the lack of fn keys and other 5250 highly used keys make nit useless to me and reminds me of the lite version of the app. However I don't think much effort was put into utilizing the iPad to it's fullest potential. The iPad version is naturally a much better experience with the additional real estate afforded it on the iPad display. I purchased this application already having seen it in action on a few mobile phones. Let the user define keys as you can via a pc connection on Client Access, or give the user more buttons on the screen that can be defined by the user. In your own office, use your pc terminal. For the most part, use this app in the portrait mode with the onscreen keyboard when you need something to carry around the office. So I used the onscreen fx key board and the fx hotspots in landscape mode along with the physical keyboard, and that is workable. For fun, I tried a Logitech MX 5000 Bluetooth keyboard with it, and that makes the app almost as good as a regular pc access to the AS400, except I could not get the function keys on the physical keyboard to work. Use portrait and you get all the keys on the screen at the same time, then if you want to see 132 characters in a report, turn it to landscape.

Even with the full version, using the onscreen keyboard will drive you nuts in landscape mode. The lite version has very limited keyboard use and will drive you nuts with keyboard switching. You pretty much have to pay the $30 bucks for the full version.

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