I was trawling through the iNetwork forums and found this link to an open source emulator plug in for WSDC. http://www.taskforce-it.de/downloads/TN5250J_Manual.pdf. It installed in a few minutes and configured just as easily as the manual stated. Having requested a single IDE for both IBM and PHP and not getting a result, the next thing was to install it in the Zend Eclipse IDE to see how it worked in there. Unfortunately it is not recognized by the Zend Eclipse IDE but I have asked for both Zend and the developer of the WSDC plugin to see if they could write one which does. This may help for those who don’t have the iSeries Access client installed which allows 5250 access but do have plenty of WSDC licenses…

If the developer or Zend get back with an updated plugin for the Zend Eclipse environment I will post a link to it here.

Chris…