TN5250 App Reviews

Please add multitasking support and Bluetooth keyboard support please. Other than that its 5 star.

Use old 5250 applications on newest technology available on market sounds odd...but this application is really useful. It works well, with latest improvements on keyboard layout it can be used even with applications not with IBM std layout interface confotably. Its also fast even with 3G connection with VPN active. Only 4* just to allow developers to improve usage with wireless keyboard or iPad physical keyboard. F keys doesnt work.

Hi, I used this app several times but there are many problems on the function keys... for example in as400 the "alignment" is a primary button and is impossible use it (F+ key); you can try to add a button on the lower right corner of the display (a big one :D) near the keyboard. Another problem is the dimension of "F" buttons please resize... :( if you need space just delete arrows (no need) or simple let us customize the "F" keys in the middle of the screen because is really hard push a single function key... If you change something Im absolutely sure that this app will be the best 5250 app !

This app does everything it says. I seamlessly connected in a matter of seconds. It is well thought out and easy to navigate within.

Im no computer guru, but my employer has a lot of "back office" systems (Accounting, HR systems, etc.) on the iSeries and from the little bit of messing around Ive done on this on the last few hours, this MochaSoft app does everything its advertised to do. Id give it 5 stars if it didnt put me back at the login screen each time I went to the home screen or to other apps. For those of you who are trashing this app even though they have no idea what it is or what its functionality is, why? This app is great for a niche market of iSeries users who want to access the system remotely. If you dont use it or know what it is, save your keyboard strokes and dont review it. This seems like a common problem in the App Store. Why doesnt Apple prevent users from reviewing apps they havent actually downloaded?

I hesitated on iPhone 2.0 until I saw this app. Very happy now!

I am a 20 year user of as400 system and I love this app! I no longer have to carry my laptop into meetings "just in case" I need to look up information from the as400 system at the office. The 30$ is worth its weight, literally. I gave it four stars because I do not like that it returns to login screen before I sign off. Still very satisfied with it overall.

This makes life so much easier I can work amytime anywhere

I have been checking out the LIte version for for a few weeks now and I must say I was impressed. There were only limitations in functions, but it worked very well. Today I bought the full version and WOW ! There are no functions I can not do. I suggest all try the Lite version 1st, however the full version is well worth the bucks. With the lite version I had questions. MochaSoft E-mail Support was very quick and helpful in their response. I was very impressed with that type of customer service. If you use an AS400 system you need this APP ! So Get It ! golfman2k3

Worked great first try. I was able to remotely fix user issues and run backups from my handset.

This is an unbelievably good app. I use it to connect to multiple AS/400s using the VPN tool included with the iPhone. My laptop is seldom used when traveling.

This app works great with the Ipad. However, it does not support the use of a bluetooth keyboard which makes it much harder to use. If it had that support it would be five stars.

Really enjoy this app and it does everything I need. I do wish this app had better keyboards for iPad. I wish the keyboards would act similar to the ones in Numbers or another app called Jump.

This would be a great if it just supported using an the keyboard/doc. You have to flip among the onscreen keyboards so much that its VERY slow going, so if it supports at least the alpha and numbers characters on the keyboard, it would make my remote support so much easier. As it its just good for very light usage.

This app works great, especially since theyve added the additional keyboard layout on iPad. Every key you need on a single screen !

With the latest update, which has added a single, complete on-screen keyboard as well as support for a wireless keyboard, this app now has everything I need to do my job from anywhere. Check it out!

Much more usable from the iPad, but what stops this from being a killer app is support for F-keys on a wireless keyboard. If this gets updated it will get 5 stars and make my things much more convenient for me.

Just needs the ability to connect 5250 session as a remote console.

I purchased this application already having seen it in action on a few mobile phones. The iPad version is naturally a much better experience with the additional real estate afforded it on the iPad display. However I dont think much effort was put into utilizing the iPad to its fullest potential. The limited wireless keyboard support is overstated as the lack of fn keys and other 5250 highly used keys make nit useless to me and reminds me of the lite version of the app. I also had a devil of a time keeping the keyboard connection alive while on VPN. Bluetooth keyboard performs flawlessly in all other apps. The other knock I would express is no fully functional keyboard in landscape mode. I am constantly switching between the qwerty, fn, navigational, and numpad keyboards. All of these keyboards can be made active in portrait mode but session display is too small to be used on long term basis. You can zoom the session while in portrait which is somewhat of a help but I would much prefer qwerty, fn, and navigational keys all be available in landscape mode. All in all though the app is useful, stable, and makes mobile support so much nicer than toting around my brick of a laptop, Oh and one more thing....no multitask support. Session drops when exiting app. This function wasnt available when app was released so hoping for an update that does. Still a four star app if only because at least someone remembered us dinosaurs on the iSeries. The platform with uptime stats that cannot be surpassed IMHO.

We got this app to give us a mobile workstation in our warehouse as part of an expanding project to streamline an increase productivity in our Canadian warehouse. The Lite version worked just as well except for not have the Fxx keyboard functions. We have cut down on human error and sped up all processes in our warehouse, already saving me the payroll dollars that the iPad and this app cost me. We have been extremely impressed and are getting this app for our US warehouse for our employees with Droid phones to start utilizing this app in our 5 US warehouses.