iSeries Access on my gentoo box

Hi all,

I finally have a working iSeries Access (formerly know as Client Access, is a 5250 emulator, needed to work with the IBM iSeries, a.k.a AS/400)!

Here's how to:

1. Download the Linux version from the IBM web site (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/linux/) I have downloaded version 5.2.0-1.10 (file name is: iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.10.i386.rpm)

2. emerge the rpm2targz utility (sudo emerge -av rpm2targz or emerge -av rpm2targz as root)

3. in the terminal console navigate where you saved the rpm file and type rpm2targz iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.10.i386.rpm, this will create a file named iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.10.i386.tar.gz

4. cd /

5. tar xvzf /iSeriesAccess-5.2.0-1.10.i386.tar.gz this will create folders in /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess

6. now we create symlinks to required libraries:
a. sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/lib/libcwbcore.so /usr/lib/
b. sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/lib/libcwbrc.so /usr/lib/
c. sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/bin/ibm5250 /usr/bin/
d. sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/bin/setup5250 /usr/bin/
e. sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/mri/en /opt/ibm/iSeriesAccess/mri/en_US

7. launch the application typing ibm5250 in your console... Should work... ;-)

8. create all the links/launchers you'll need.

Prerequisites:
- openmotif
- glibc
- unixODBC --> don't sure if must be here (?)...

Everything available on portage

References:
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37428
- http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-306492-highlight-iseries.html --> for font issues, xorg.xonf file
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=76122 --> copied what the ebuild does...


Hope this can help someone setting up the iSeriesAccess on linux and that helps someone else to be free to leave the Win-World, or maybe live in a more mixed one.