But buried further down in the announcement was the new cross-platform 5250 emulator, which bears the IBM product ID 5733-XJ1. The big news in TR4 was Live Partition Mobility (LPM), a must-have feature for the new cloud world. IBM first announced IBM i Access Client Solutions in April as part of its IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 4 (TR) release.
The new offering addresses two difficulties faced by IBM: keeping users of its Windows-based i Access current, and offering an emulator for non-Windows devices. In mid-July, IBM made available for download the technology preview of IBM i Access Client Solutions, a new Java-based version of the IBM i Access emulator that can run on Mac, Linux, and Windows. IBM Delivers Tech Preview of New Java-Based 5250 Emulator
