5250 CPW for IBM i logical partitions

5250 commercial processing workload (5250 CPW) is the capacity to perform 5250 online transaction processing (5250 OLTP) tasks on IBM® i logical partitions.

A 5250 OLTP task is a task that uses the 5250 data stream. Examples of 5250 OLTP tasks include the following:

• Any form of 5250 emulation, including Hardware Management Console (HMC) 5250, RUMBA/400, PC Support/400 workstation function, and Binary Synchronous Communication (BSC) 3270 emulation
• 5250 Telnet or 5250 Display Station Pass-Through (DSPT) workstations
• 5250/HTML workstation gateway
• Screen scrapers
• Interactive system monitors
• Printer jobs that pass through twinaxial media, regardless of whether the printer is working in dedicated mode or is printing spool files from an output queue

You can use the IBM WebFacing Tool to convert your 5250 OLTP applications into web-based applications that no longer need to use the 5250 data stream.