From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO Carl-T60) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2648745 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:15 -0400 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:42:13 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] TN3270 on eCS [Was: T410: . . .] Message-ID: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:39:00 -0600, Andy Willis wrote: >Neil Waldhauer wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:55:18 -0400 (EDT), "Carl Gehr" >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, there is a very good TN3270 package, Personal Communications >>> [PCom], that IBM provide(d). As far as the 3270 emulation, it is all I >>> need. Unfortunately, IBM has imposed an SSL requirement for certain >>> functions that the PCom that runs on OS/2-eCS does not support. The >>> Windoze version has been enhanced to support SSL. >> >> I'm also using Personal Communications/2. I'm trying to get IBM's last revision >> for OS/2 (never released), but I don't know if SSL was added to that version. >> However, there's a chance that OpenSSL could transport the data if the 3270 >> emulation session was configured for it. >> >> Rather than SSL, my site is using the Cisco VPN, equally unsupported by eCS. >> >> Neil >I think I have the latest version (4.3) and it does support SSL but does >not support TLS like the windows version (which is what I need). > From the help: >Check the box if you want this session to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) >v3 encryption. The Telnet server to which the session connects must have >SSL configured for this session. I went back to the early documetation of the problem I was having with access to the IBM system. Here is the response and conclusions that I received when I could not get the logon to z/VM to work. It is actually appears that the problem is not with PCom itself, but with the 'Certificate Manager' and/or Java. [I've now said more than I know about what this really means. So, if there is anyone out there who understands what this means and who might have a suggestion, I open to any/all options.] >------------------------------------------------------------------- > IBM Tech Response on 04-Feb-2008 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Looking at the files you sent leads me to believe the >Certificate Manager you received is defective. You stated >you received it quite awhile ago and are using the latest >version of 'JAVA,java full version "1.4.2_09-b05'. > > I now understand that you are using 'eComStation' and >you stated that you received the Certificate Manager as an >add on. > > We feel these are your options to us SSL for TN3270 >connectivity. > >1. Since this is a very old copy of Certificate Manager, > the latest copy of JAVA may not support some functions > used to display the panels that you are experiencing > problems. A test would be to use and OLDER version of > JAVA to verify if this is the case. > >2. You will need to go to eComStation and request an > update for TN3270 for SSL/TLS support, which we > would think includes a way to manage required > certificates. > >3. If I understood you correctly you stated you > received the Certificate Manager from someone in IBM. > If so, you will need to go back to that person and > request a new copy which interfaces with OS/2, verify > it interfaces with eComStation and that it supports > your current version of JAVA. > > Sorry, but OS/2 is not supported anymore as well as >IBM Comunication CM/2 for OS/2 or Warp 4.0. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~