5/28/2023 0 Comments Mainframe emulator for macIf it doesn’t return you anything try to restart the terminal. To check that your installation has finished correctly type: which c3270 > /usr/local/bin/c3270 Now let’s run this script, as you can see it’s Z Shell script, so we should run it accordingly: sudo zsh scriptĪfter that you will see sequence of commands and, probably, the installation of XCode Command Line Tools, if don’t have it installed yet. In opened text editor paste and save text which we’ve copied earlier. It will create temporary folder for us, now let’s create a text file where we will place our script: touch script open script Open your terminal and type the following commands: cd ~/Downloads mkdir temp cd temp Open page with installation script provided by IBM and copy it. Of course there’re alternatives, like Mocha TN3270 or ZOC, but they’re not free, so what should we do? Install c3270 on your Mac, of course! Installation With release of Catalina many things happened, including tons of bugs on its release, but one of the most groundbreaking was disabling support of 32-bit applications, which for most of the Mac-based mainframers (here and after means users of the IBM Mainframe) meant one sad thing: they won’t be able to use TN3270 from Brown University anymore which was a free and recommended way to interact with mainframe. In this article I will explain how to set up connection to IBM Mainframe from MacOS Catalina, but let’s start from small piece of history. TN3270 on MacOS Catalina: Connect to IBM Mainframe easily
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