Personal Communications Highlights

Personal Communications brings the power of personal networking to your workstation by providing a variety of connectivity options supporting local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) environments. Whether you need host terminal emulation, client/server applications, or connectivity, Personal Communications offers a robust set of communications, networking, and administrative features.

Personal Communications is a full-function emulator package with an easy-to-use graphical interface, which includes many useful features such as file transfer and dynamic configuration, and emulator APIs including the IBM® Host Access Class Library.

You can create applications that use the peer-to-peer client APIs, which are based on LU 6.2 (and provided by Personal Communications). Using these APIs, you can simultaneously access and process information on peer workstations.

With Personal Communications, you can participate in Advanced-Peer-to-Peer Networks (APPN) as an end node, and use the advanced network features, high-performance routing (HPR), and dependent LU requester (DLUR).

Personal Communications provides the following functions:

  • zSeries™ Connections
    LAN
    LAN via IEEE 802.2
     
    Communications Server for Windows®
     
    Telnet3270
     
    3270 via iSeries™
     
    APPC 3270 via LAN
     
    Dependent Logical Unit Requester (DLUR)
     
    VT-over-Telnet (TCP/IP)
     
    3174 Peer Communication
    COM port
    Telnet 3270
     
    IBM Global Network® (not in Japan)
     
    Home3270
     
    Dependent Logical Unit Requester (DLUR) via Hayes AutoSync
     
    APPC 3270 via Hayes AutoSync
     
    VT-over-Async
     
    VT-over-Telnet (TCP/IP)
     
    X.25 Hayes AutoSync
     
    X.25 DLUR via Hayes AutoSync
     
    X.25 APPC 3270 via Hayes AutoSync
    SDLC
    Synchronous Data Link Control
     
    3270 via iSeries™ (passthru)
     
    APPC 3270 via SDLC
     
    Dependent Logical Unit Requester (DLUR)
    IBM-EEDLC
    LU (0, 1, 2, 3) via DLUR
     
    APPC 3270
    OEM
    LU (0, 1, 2, 3)
     
    3270 via iSeries™ (passthru)
     
    APPC 3270
     
    Dependent LU Requester (DLUR)
  • iSeries™ Connections
    LAN
    LAN via IEEE 802.2
     
    Telnet5250 over TCP/IP
     
    VT over Telnet
     
    Telnet5250 over IPX/SPX
    COM port
     
    Hayes AutoSync
     
    VT over Async
     
    VT over Telnet
     
    Telnet 5250
     
    X.25 Hayes AutoSync
    SDLC
    Synchronous Data Link Control
    IBM-EEDLC
    5250
    OEM
    APPC 5250
  • ASCII Emulator Connections
    LAN
    VT over Telnet
    COM port
    VT-over-Async
     
    VT over Telnet
  • Log Viewer
    • View Message Log, Trace Log, and Merged Log files
    • Summary and Detail views
    • Set default Message Log size and location
    • Filter and search Log files
    • Message Log entries Help
  • Trace Capability
    • 3270/5250 emulator data
    • APPN® and APPC API data
    • Connectivity data, such as LAN or SDLC
    • User services data, such as node initialization
  • APPC Applets
    • Check connection (APING)
  • Sample Programs
    • Located in \Personal Communications\samples subdirectory
  • Installation and Configuration
    • Partial installation option
    • Program sharing on a network server
    • Automatic detection of installed communication adapters
    • Dynamic change of communication configurations
    • Automatic Dial Facility (Async (IGN), SDLC, Home3270)
    • Silent Installation
    • Verification of ASCII configuration
  • OEM Adaptor Cards

    An open API enables vendors and other equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to provide adapter cards that allow for additional connectivity options, such as additional X.25, ISDN, or SDLC support.

  • Host Session Function
    • Up to 52 sessions
    • Variable screen size and automatic font scaling
    • Function settings (of the host code page, for example) for each session
  • Host Graphics Support
    • Built-in vector graphics support for GDDM® and other graphics applications
  • File Transfer Function
    • Easy operation through graphical user interface (GUI) windows
    • Batch transfer of multiple files
    • Concurrent file transfer through multiple sessions
    • Background file transfer
    • File transfer invocation by macro
    • OfficeVision®/MVS Import/Export functions
    • VT File Transfer (XModem and YModem)
  • Edit (Cut and Paste) Function
    You can use the clipboard to cut, copy, and paste a selected area. In addition, you can paste data in other applications, such as spreadsheet programs, that support the PasteLink function.
    • Support of spreadsheet data format (Sylk, BIFF3, Wk3 formats)
    • Copy Append
    • Paste Next
    • Paste to Trim Rectangle
    • Paste Stop at Protected Line
  • Graphical User Interface (GUI)
    • Customizable 3D iconic tool bar
    • 3D-button hotspots
    • Pop-up keypad
    • Macro function, including record and play
    • VBScripts, including record and play
    • Keyboard-function setup and remapping
    • Mouse-button-function setup and remapping
    • Display setup (cursor type, graphics, sound, colors, for example)
    • Automatic font size adjustment or fixed font size
    • Window-appearance setup
    • Menu-bar customization
    • 3270 Light Pen emulation by using a mouse
    • Status bar with history
    • Page setup (Text and Graphics)
    • Revised Configuration Dialog
    • Online help
  • Print Function
    • Printer session (for PC/3270: SCS, LU 3)
    • Graphics local print
    • Printing with the Windows printer drivers
    • Print function by printer definition table (PDT)
    • Multiple host-print functions in multiple sessions
    • PDF-to-PDT conversion tool
    • PC400 print function by OS/400® and i5/OS™ Host Print Transform (HPT)
    • PC400 printing supported by the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, and System i5™ Advanced Print Support Utility
  • Programming Interfaces
    • 32-bit Emulator High-Level Language Application Programming Interface (EHLLAPI)
    • 32-bit Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
    • 32-bit Node Operations Facility (NOF)
    • 32-bit Personal Communications API (PCSAPI)
    • 32-bit Advanced Program-to-Program Communication (APPC)
    • 32-bit Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C)
    • 32-bit Automation Object API
    • 32-bit ActiveX/OLE 2.0
    • ActiveX® Controls
  • PC400 Client Function
    • Data transfer
    • PC Organizer
    • Text Assist
    • Enhanced Programmable Terminal User Interface (ENPTUI)