Common Options

host=URL

Set the host to connect to. The URL is of the form [PROTOCOL:]HOSTNAME[:PORT]. The default protocol, if not supplied, is tn5250. See Protocols below for descriptions of the available protocols.

map=CCSID

Set the translation table between ASCII and EBCDIC. This should match the CCSID of the interactive job. The default is 37. See Translation Maps below for more information.

env.DEVNAME=NAME

Set the device name for the AS/400 to assign to the 5250 session. This should be up to ten characters long and consist of only letters and numbers. It will be converted to uppercase and used as the name of the 5250-compatible device on the AS/400. There may only be one session active with any given name at one time.

trace=TRACEFILE

Log all actions to TRACEFILE. This file will get very large, and may contain sensitive information such as the password used to log in.

+/-ssl_verify_server

If set, then verify that the server's certificate was issued by a CA in the file given by the ssl_ca_file option. If the certificate's issuer cannot be verified, do not connect to the server.

ssl_ca_file=CAFILE

Specify the file containing the certificate for the CA that issued the server's certificate. If the server certificate is self-signed, CAFILE should contain the certificate displayed by the Digital Certificate Manager option Copy and paste certificate.

ssl_cert_file=CERTFILE

Specify the file containing the personal certificate, in PEM format. This must be a certificate associated with your user profile on the AS/400 by DCM.

ssl_pem_pass=PASSWORD

If the personal certificate given by ssl_cert_file is password protected, the password may be given here to bypass the password prompt.

Display Options

+/-underscores

Force or disable the use of underscore characters instead of the underline attribute, for terminals that do not support underlining but where tn5250 does not work this out itself.

+/-ruler

Turn the ruler feature on or off. When enabled, the row and column of the cursor will be highlighted.

env.TERM=MODEL

Set the terminal model name for the emulation session to use. The default depends on whether the terminal supports colour, and whether it is large enough to support the large terminal size. See Display Types below for valid model names.

The default model emulated is an IBM-3179-2, a 24x80 colour terminal.

font_80=FONT

If tn5250 is running in an xterm, sets the font to change to when the terminal is in 80 column mode. This should be a valid X font name, such as can be chosen with xfontsel.

font_132=FONT

If the emulated terminal has a size of 27x132, set the font to use in 132 column mode, as for the font_80 option.

beep_command=COMMAND

If present, will run the supplied command instead of using the terminal beep.

+/-uninhibited

If enabled, automatically resets the input inhibited state when cursor movement keys or function keys are pressed. The default is disabled.

env.VARIABLE=VALUE

Set any other environment variables controlling the terminal session. A list of relevant variables is given in section 5 of RFC2877.

Printer Options

outputcommand=COMMAND

Set the command that will be run to receive printer output. The default command is `scs2ascii |lpr'.

env.IBMMFRTYPMDL=NAME

Set the name of the host print transform description to use on the AS/400. This is the same as the MFRTYPMDL parameter on the CRTDEVPRT command. See the CL Reference or the online help for a list of valid values.

env.VARIABLE=VALUE

Set any other environment variables controlling the printer session. A list of relevant variables is given in section 7 of RFC2877. More generally, the variables are the parameters of the CRTDEVPRT command, with a prefix of IBM.

Protocols

telnet

Connect to the AS/400 using a normal unencrypted telnet connection. tn5250 is an alias for telnet.

ssl

Connect securely using an encrypted SSL session. This option is only available if tn5250 was compiled with SSL support.

debug

Instead of connecting to a server, replay the trace generated by the trace option. The path to the trace file should be given instead of the hostname.

Translation Maps

Currently recognised values for the translation map are: 37, 256, 273, 277, 278, 280, 284, 285, 290, 297, 420, 424, 500, 870, 871, 875, 880, 905, and 1026. Most of these are translated to ISO-8859-1, also known as Latin 1. Some of them contain characters only present in another encoding, which is used instead. The valid CCSID values, and the Unix encoding used, are listed below.

If possible, configure your terminal to use the appropriate encoding if your AS/400 uses any of these CCSIDs.

Display Types