Rally Pat Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 I work in IT at my company, and have been hammering away at getting rid of the last remaining XP machines before Microsoft starts charging us for them. There is one guy who has one that all he does is remote into it from his Windows 7 laptop and uses it to upload data into an AS/400 using IBM Client Access Express. I am trying to find the same program or a newer alternative to install on this guy's laptop so that I can simply decommission this one instead of replace it. IBM's website is almost completely uselss, and has no download links to the software. Anyone who knows anything about this would be a great help. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewtoys Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 AS/400 brings back terrible memories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 AS/400 brings back terrible memories! Ours is slowly being decommissioned in favor of Oracle, but its not gone till its gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhobbz Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Take a look at these http://www.mochasoft.dk/ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/access/solutions.html P.S. what kind of weird licensing do you have that microsoft is going to charge you directly for holding onto XP machines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Take a look at these http://www.mochasoft.dk/ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/access/solutions.html P.S. what kind of weird licensing do you have that microsoft is going to charge you directly for holding onto XP machines? Microsoft and Corporate will charge $200 per machine to keep writing security patches for ones still in service, that's what I've been told by those above me, anyway. Thanks for the links, we actually use Mochasoft as one of our terminal emulators, but I am not sure if it will have the functionality he needs. The other we use is Attachmate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrhobbz Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Microsoft and Corporate will charge $200 per machine to keep writing security patches for ones still in service, that's what I've been told by those above me, anyway. Thanks for the links, we actually use Mochasoft as one of our terminal emulators, but I am not sure if it will have the functionality he needs. The other we use is Attachmate. Might just be something internal, MS generally kills all support in general at end of life. Could also be something new starting at XP, who knows. I've never used mochasoft unfortunately so I couldn't say, and I hate Attachmate with passion. I'll ask some of my buddys that are more involved with mainframe work and see if they can recommend any good W7 alternatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGU Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Pat we are running IBM I series access on our win 7 machines I dunno what version it is though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffro Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Microsoft and Corporate will charge $200 per machine to keep writing security patches for ones still in service, that's what I've been told by those above me, anyway. Thanks for the links, we actually use Mochasoft as one of our terminal emulators, but I am not sure if it will have the functionality he needs. The other we use is Attachmate. I remember reading that over in the UK, microsoft will continue patches for 1 year for a fee. Maybe that's what they were referring to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBQdDude Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Install a VM on the windows 7 machine. Have them VM run XP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Install a VM on the windows 7 machine. Have them VM run XP? Doesn't work that way, a VM of XP is still treated as a stand alone computer running XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGU Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Looks like our version is IBM I series access for windows version 7.1. It works like a charm on windows 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rally Pat Posted April 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 We were able to get a hold of the guy who maintains the AS/400 and he is going to get this user setup with what he needs. Thanks for the help everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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