The two products in the IBM Host Access Client Package, IBM Personal Communications, and IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand have been enhanced with new features and functions to keep up with current technologies. This IBM Redbook explores the features and functions of each product as it relates to deployment in today's rapidly expanding TCP/IP environment. The following is an overview of many of the topics found in this redbook: -Java Web Start for using HOD without a browser -Web Express Logon for automated logon support -Secure Shell (SSH) support for VT display sessions -ZipPrint support -Sharing and reusing macros and server macro library support -Backup server support for clients -Mac OS X emulator and database clients -IPv6 support -Personal Communications Windows Terminal Server support -PCOMM connection timeout improvements -PCOMM support for IPv6 Telnet connections -PCOMM visual enhancements to OIA and poppad

Web-to host integration has become a well-known term and is understood as an integral part of any e-business. A majority of business-critical data and applications reside on IBM host systems such as IBM S/390, IBM AS/400 and IBM RS/6000. Making this information available to new users and using it in new ways across intranets, extranets and the Internet enable companies to reduce costs, improve services, generate new sources of revenue and establish a competitive advantage. The term legacy application extension is used to describe the trend where companies quickly move existing host applications to the intranet, extranet and the Internet without modifying existing applications. IBM Host Integration products provide a complete solution to address the legacy application extension space with solutions to address the needs of all user groups. This book provides a high-level technical overview of IBM Host Integration solutions. It addresses the issues of choosing a solution. The book features WebSphere network products that can be used to integrate the Web with existing customer host systems, including Host On-Demand, Host Publisher, and Screen Customizer. The functions they provide are compared to other Web-to-host products and features such as CICS Transaction Gateway, IMS Connect, etc.

By their very nature, e-business applications are more vulnerable to attack than any type of previous I/T system. Security needs to be at the heart of these systems because the costs of getting it wrong can be enormous. The publicity associated with a breach of security reduces customer, supplier and Business Partner confidence in the enterprise and the share price plummets. There also may be actual monetary theft, or confidential information might be compromised. Whatever the details, the result is a loss to the business, and in the extreme case, the loss of the business itself. Appropriate security needs to be in place for all systems - whether they are simply company Web pages with no access to the company intranet at all, or full-blown customer-to-business or business-to-business systems with external customers or partners having access to company systems. In this redbook, we show some of the best security solutions in which IBM Host Integration can operate. Network security is implemented to protect two objects: (1) the data that is transmitted on the network, and (2) the computers that are connected to the network. This Redbook is directed at I/T managers and architects planning for, or implementing, an IBM Host Integration solution. It explores aspects of network security while implementing an IBM Web-to-host host integration solution, consisting of IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand and IBM WebSphere Host Publisher. It describes the native security capabilities of each product and how they may be used by t

The industry's premier Java-based emulator, IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand V5, has been enhanced to provide many new usability and manageability features. Enhancements in the client include improved client customization support for color and keyboard mappings as well as improved navigation. Host printing from Windows is made easier, while VT print passthrough is provided. AS/400 improvements abound, including support for ENPTUI, Toolbox Model 3 and AS/400 Proxy. The VT use is not forgotten. Included are VT100/200 enhancements, a VT history window and support for greater than 24 lines. Security is enhanced by providing an express logon capability using digital certificates. Major improvements in the manageability and deployment of IBM WebSphere Host On-Demand V5 are included in this release. Included is a new configurable smart client, a Deployment Wizard for creating and managing customized Web pages, the ability to disable unnecessary functions, native platform authentication, and the componentization of the clients that will allow for updating of individual functions instead of the entire product.

This redbook is intended to help IT managers and architects to tune a host integration solution based upon a combination of Host On-Demand, Screen Customizer, and Host Publisher. Tuning a solution based upon these products is a relatively simple process; however, it does involve many interrelated technologies. This book discusses basic performance planning issues involved in implementing the host integration solution, covering server hardware, operating system, networking subsystem, Web server and Java tuning guidelines. Performance tuning guidance is provided for the following: Server hardware Server operating system Web server Java Virtual Machine WebSphere Application Server Host Publisher Host On-Demand Recommendations made in this book are not all theoretical. They are largely based upon ITSO implementations and tests in laboratory environments.

This redbook will help you install, configure, administer and use IBM SecureWay Host On-Demand Version 4. Host On-Demand consists of a server and several clients, certified 100% pure Java, that provide terminal-emulator sessions to System/390, AS/400 and ASCII host systems through a Web browser. The server can be installed on Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare, AIX, various types of UNIX, OS/400 or OS/390. Now that we are into the era of "computing on the Web", there is a need for products that let customers, agents, suppliers, distributors and other business partners, as well as employees, have access to a company's host systems over the Internet or intranet; Host On-Demand is just such a product. This book describes all the functions of Host On-Demand, from the point of view of both administrator and user. It explains how the product works and the variety of ways in which it can be configured to suit differing requirements, and it discusses and makes recommendations about data security, which is often of vital importance in this environment. Many enhancements have been made in Version 4. Many people nowadays want to present host-system screens in a graphical format that is familiar to the modern-day user. IBM Screen Customizer lets you convert "green screens" easily and quickly into windows that include images, buttons, links, dialog-boxes and all the other attributes of a modern graphical interface. The book includes a chapter on this product.

This redbook helps you to understand the latest release of IBM eNetwork Communications Server for OS/2 Warp Version 5.0. It focuses on the new networking support implemented in this product, and helps you plan, install, and configure the new functions quickly in a wide variety of environments. In this redbook you will find information on the installation of SNA nodes such as End Nodes, Network Nodes and the new Branch Extender Node. You will also find numerous configuration examples showing ways to set up the SNA gateway and the TN3270E server when connected to subarea or APPN networks using WAN protocols. Some knowledge of previous releases of the IBM eNetwork Communications Servers, as well as a basic knowledge of networking concepts and terminology used in the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and TCP/IP is assumed.