z/Scope Terminal Emulation
Terminal Emulation solution for PC and Web Access to IBM AS/400, IBM Mainframes and Unix servers.
z/Scope is Cybele Software’s multi-host, multi-protocol, multi-session Terminal Emulation for AS/400, IBM Mainframes
and Unix servers access. It works both as a stand-alone and/or a web-based application.
Take a look on the essencial attributes that make z/Scope an unique tool.
Highlights:
TN3270E for IBM Mainframes
- Supports extended TN3270 protocol.
- The protocols TN3270E, SSL 2/3 and TLS 1 are also supported.
- All the necessary tools for fast and modern terminal emulation.
TN5250S for IBM AS/400
- Supports extended TN5250 protocol.
- The protocols TN5250E, SSL 2/3 and TLS 1 are also supported.
- All the necessary tools for fast and modern IBM Mainframe emulation.
VT100-420, SSH for Unix Servers
- Emulation for VT100/VT220/VT320/VT420/SSH1/SSH2 Telnet Servers protocols.
- Gives also full support for Kermit, X-Modem, Y-Modem and X-Modem file transfer protocols.
- All the necessary tools for fast and modern Telnet Servers emulation.
FTP
- Full multi-session FTP client integrated into the tabbed interface.
- Enhanced FTP support for AS/400 IFS and not IFS.
Printer Emulation
- Display and printer emulations through standard 3270 and 5250 protocols.
- Open IBM 3812/3287 printer sessions, redirecting them to your local or network printer.
- Print-to-file and preview modes.
PC-to-Host and Web-to-Host Options
- There are editions for stand-alone and a Web Browser-embedded application.
- Run Web-to-Host from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Netscape.
Tabbed, multi-session Terminal Emulation
- Integrated tabbed multi-session terminal emulation, using multiple connection types simultaneously.
- Allows you to open as many host sessions as needed.
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Features
Terminal Emulation
- VT52,VT100-VT420, ANSI and SSH, TN3270, TN5250 Host access.
- Support for extended TN3270 and TN5250 protocols.
- Extended terminal emulation capabilities, fully VT100/220/320/420 compatible.
- Terminal emulation (models 2, 3, 4 and 5), both in normal and extended attribute modes.
- Terminal emulation in both 24x80 and 27x132 screen resolutions.
- Support for SSH1 (Secure Shell), SSH2 security protocols.
- z/Scope communicates through standard 3270 and 5250 protocols for display and printer emulations.
Printer Emulation
- Integrated printer emulation. z/Scope communicates through standard 3270 and 5250 protocols for display and printer emulations.
- Fully Integrated Printer Sessions; Support for IBM 3812/3287
- Open IBM 3812/3287 printer sessions, redirecting them to your local or network printer.
- SCS (SNA Character String) printer support is included in direct, print-to-file and preview modes.
- Queue management.
- Print jobs can also be exported as files and stored anywhere on the network.
- You can select a printer from all your available printers.
- Print to default printer (just as you would with any other program).
- z/Scope allows you to manage printing preferences by selecting and modifying different settings.
- In 'Printing Preferences' you can view, edit, delete and duplicate printer settings.
- Screen Hard Copy Printing.
File Transfer
- Full multi-session FTP client integrated into the tabbed interface.
- IND$FILE, KERMIT, X/Y/Z-MODEM transfers integrated in the same common interface.
- IND$FILE for VM/TSO/CICS file transfer support.
- Integrated File Transfer Manager on Classic, Web-to-Host and SDK editions.
- Transfer services can work in background.
- File Transfer Enhancements.
- Enhanced FTP support for AS/400 IFS and not IFS modes Classic, Web-to-Host and SDK editions (optional).
- Queue management.
Multi-session and Multi-connection
- Multi-session/multi-connection terminal emulation capabilities, allowing you to open as many sessions as needed.
- Up to 4 emulations visible in the same screen using a tile system.
- Multiple emulation modes simultaneously: TN3270, TN5250 and VTxxx.
- Allows thousands of concurrent users from a single host or server farm for optimal scalability.
- Full multi-session FTP client integrated into the tabbed interface.
Browser based edition (Web-to-host)
- Enhanced Web Browser compatibility. Includes IE, Mozilla Firefox/Netscape plug-in.
- Users interacts with familiar browser-like environment that gives host applications a consistent and familiar appearance, thus enhancing user productivity.
- No new training required.
- Browse Web pages directly from the Emulation Display.
Keyboard customization
- Compatibility and support for a wide range of standard keyboards such as IBM, EXTRA, IRMA and RUMBA.
- Full control and customization of the keyboard, allowing you to re-map virtually any key to new key/s and even mouse clicks.
- User-friendly keyboard configuration.
- Enhanced keyboard and mouse functionality.
- Multiple Keyboard Profiles.
- Keypads are groups of buttons that simulate keyboard keys.
Task automation
- Macros: Record any sequence of keystrokes and reproduce them at any time by creating macros. The Macro editor allows you to fine-tune your macro code later.
- Navigators: provide a new way to automate navigation sequences and quickly get past routine procedures like welcome and login sequences.
- Auto-Fills: automatically fill-in one or more input fields with a simple mouse click.
- Auto-Suggestion: feature easily reproduces previously typed text with only one click.
- User-defined Hotspots: enable point-and-click operations for faster and more intuitive navigation.
- HLLAPI, EHLLAPI, and WinHLLAPI support.
- OHIO (Open Host Interface Objects) API support. Macro capability through VBScript scripting language and the integrated Active Script debugger. Read more
Security
- Support for SSL 2.0 and 3.0 (Secure Socket Layer Technology), as well as TSL 1.0 (Transport Layer Security) security protocols.
- Secure your FTP sessions connecting via the SFTP protocol.
- 128-bit encryption allows users to securely access remote hosts over any network, and safely transfer files between systems.
- Support for SSH1 (Secure Shell), SSH2 security protocols.
Desktop Remote Access
- Remote Desktop connectivity.
- VNC connectivity.
User-friendly interface and navigation
- Collapsible panel for quick access to connections, screen styles and macros.
- Integration with Microsoft® Office suite. Export text in the emulation display directly to Word or Outlook® applications.
- User-friendly keyboard configuration.
- Advanced edit options let you customize and get full control of copy, cut and paste operations.
- Switch between many open connections by clicking on the corresponding tab.
- Easily define Connections, Navigators, Auto-Fills and Hotspots through step-by-step wizards and context menus.
- Take advantage of the intuitive, task-oriented and user-friendly interface.
- Start page, with RSS aggregator, features links for configured connections.
- Configure this multi-personality application through our innovational plugin system to adjust it to your daily needs.
- Improved legibility through TN BRIDGE font, well-fit for most terminal and screen resolutions.
- Support for mono-spaced and non-mono-spaced fonts.
- Screen History provides convenient one-click access to previously visited screens. Display any particular screen directly by selecting it from the screen thumbnails menu.
- Web Update on all editions.
Operating System compatibility
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT
- Windows 2K
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista platforms
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 8
- 64 bits compatible: Vista, Win 7 and Windows Server 8
Localization (languages and caracters support)
Support for 7 different languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Swedish
International character support, including support for custom ASCII/EBCDIC conversion tables:
| Australia - CP037 | Austria - CP27 | Austria - CP1141 |
| Belgium - CP500 | Belgium - 1148 | Canada - CP037 |
| Canada - CP1047 | Canada - CP1140 | Czech – CP2975 |
| Denmark - CP277 | Denmark - CP277 | Finland - CP278 |
| Finland - CP1143 | France - CP1147 | France - CP297 |
| Germany - CP273 | Germany - CP1141 | Greece - CP423 |
| Greece - CP875 | International -CP850 | Iceland - CP871 |
| Iceland - CP1149 | Italy - CP280 | Italy - CP1144 |
| Latin America - CP284 | Latin America - CP1145 | Netherlands - CP037 |
| Norway - CP277 | Norway - CP1142 | Poland - CP2978 |
| Portugal - CP037 | Russian - CP2979 | Spain - CP284 |
| Spain - CP1145 | Sweden - CP278 | Sweden - CP1143 |
| Switzerland - CP500 | Switzerland - CP1148 | United Kingdom - CP285 |
| United Kingdom - CP1146 | United States - CP037 | United States - CP037/2 |
| United States - CP1047 | United States - CP1140 | .... |
Integration with other applications
- DDE Support.
- HLLAPI, EHLLAPI, and WinHLLAPI support.
- OHIO (Open Host Interface Objects) API support. Macro capability through VBScript scripting language and the integrated Active Script debugger. Read more
Check out which of the z/Scope editions is the most convenient for you on the edition comparison chart.
Competitive advantages
At a Glance...
- Better functionality than existing products at a really competitive price.
- Designed to run on the latest versions of Windows®, eliminating the need for troublesome and expensive backward compatibility.
- Eliminates support for obsolete standards that causes the classic products used today to be so expensive.
- Offers the most intuitive, user-friendly and task-oriented interface.
- Contributes to reduce your company's IT budget.
The experienced developers of z/Scope set out from the beginning to offer our clients a robust, updated, quality product. z/Scope arises as an alternative to the old terminal emulators, being its main strength to offer a better functionality than existing products at a really competitive price.
z/Scope takes advantage of the last years' advances in the computer technology field to offer you everything you need to interact with the hosts over the TCP/IP and SSL protocols, leaving behind everything else that has become obsolete and old-fashioned. The result is an agile, fully featured and forward-thinking solution that will radically change your previous experience with terminal emulators.
Since it is so easy to configure and even easier to use, it has become an ideal terminal emulation solution to replace the old and expensive ones, providing user-friendly and task-oriented interfaces, making the learning-of-a-new-software a very pleasant and brief experience for final users.
Productivity Facts
All z/Scope features contribute to improve the terminal emulation in many ways. z/Scope users are able to save time, save pc/server resources, enjoy a beautiful interface, have all the functionality that they need, with all the necessary technical support backing them up. Companies invest little money and soon realize that they got the best return, and the money they saved can be used to do more.
To sum up, z/Scope goes one step further offering you a powerful, modern and feature-rich terminal emulator that at the same time helps reduce your company's IT budget.
Editions
Optimize your investment. Pay for what you need.
Which z/Scope edition is the most convenient for you?
Express 3270 |
Express 5250 |
Express VT |
Classic |
SDK |
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| SSL Tunneling (3) | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Windows OS Support (4) |
(1) The FTP client function it's optional for Classic, SDK and Web-to-Host editions. For a small additional amount you will get a full FTP Client seamlessly integrated into z/Scope's tabbed interface.
(2) Requires our free centralized configuration facility for large deployments: Remote Configuration Server, which can be customized according to groups' specific needs. Download it here.
(3) Contact us if you wish to enable SSL tunneling for your Telnet connections.
(4) All z/Scope editions are compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, as well as Windows 2003 Server and Windows Server 2008. Old Windows versions like Windows 98/ME/2000 are also supported.
Requirements
Software Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows Operating System:
i.e.: Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and older (ME/2k/98SE/NT). - Browser (only required for z/Scope Web-to-Host and z/Scope SDK):
Internet Explorer 5 or later; Mozilla Firefox 3 or later.
Hardware Requirements:
- Pentium 2 or equivalent computer/processor. Recommended: Pentium 3 or superior.
- 256 Mb Memory (RAM).
- 50 Mb free space in disk, approximately.
For developers
SDK
Terminal Emulation Development Kit for accessing to IBM AS/400, IBM Mainframes and Unix Hosts.
z/Scope SDK is an easy-to-use library that allows you to integrate and take advantage of z/Scope Terminal Emulator with your corporate application. Enabling full embedding of its full-featured multi-session terminal emulation allows a tight integration bewteen desktop/web applications and mainframe systems, even interacting with mainframe screens through the powerful OHIO interface.
z/Scope SDK is compatible with any ActiveX-aware development environment and languages: Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Studio, VB.NET, C#, C++, CodeGear's Delphi, etc. It can also be easily embeded into any HTML-based solution as a visual activeX control.
z/Scope's Scripting Capabilities
Open Host Interface Objects (OHIO)
OHIO addresses the need for a standardized advanced programming interface that can access the host data. OHIO does not modify the TN3270/TN5250 protocol or datastream but instead provides a common access method to that data once it arrives at the client. It uses an Object Oriented approach to divide the data into logical objects, and provides methods on those objects to allow standard access to the data.
HLLAPI, WinHLLAPI, EHLLAPI
HLLAPI is a standard programming interface that allows programmatic access to a host emulator session. Functions are provided for reading host screen data (such as the characters and attributes), for sending keystrokes, and for performing other emulator-related functions. The EHLLAPI interface is a single call-point interface. There is a single callable API through which all EHLLAPI functions are requested. On each call to the interface the application provides a function number which identifies the function requested, a pointer to a data buffer, a pointer to the length of the data buffer, and a pointer to a return code. WinHLLAPI is based on the familiar EHLLAPI.API. It encompasses all of its existing functionality and adds extensions that take advantage of the Windows message-driven environment.
Contact us if you wish to get more information about z/Scope's Scripting Capabilities.
