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Evaluating InfoConnect Desktop

Upgrading from InfoConnect classic editions to InfoConnect Desktop editions couldn’t be easier. When you start InfoConnect Desktop the first time, all your existing macros, keyboard maps, and session files work as expected. InfoConnect Desktop has the features you depend on for advanced productivity, secure multi-host connectivity, centralized management and more.

Instead of an application designed for the operating systems you were using a decade ago, InfoConnect Desktop gives you an emulator that has earned the Windows logos pertinent to the enterprise and is uniquely integrated with the desktop and Microsoft Office applications.

Windows integration provides a range of built-in security capabilities, designed to help you meet evolving internal and external security requirements. Integration with Windows’ User Account Control (UAC) maximizes your control over user access to administrative features and functions, and minimizes desktop vulnerabilities. And InfoConnect Desktop’s Trusted Locations feature can prevent security breaches by allowing users to open documents only from trusted file locations that you specify.

InfoConnect Desktop protects the security of your data before, during, and after transmission by providing time-tested cryptographic modules that meet the rigorous federal government FIPS 140-2 standards. Besides providing secure access to hosts and gateways, additional tools help you verify the authenticity of hosts, gateways, and clients, and facilitate compliance with regulations such as Payment Card Industry (PCI) audits, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), HIPAA/HITECH, FISMA, Basel II, and evolving regulatory mandates regarding data protection.

Other terminal emulators may provide security through third-party partnerships, and even then, they typically support a lower level of certification. With InfoConnect, you get a single-vendor solution that’s integrated with the emulator and supported by dedicated security development, test, and technical support teams at Micro Focus.

InfoConnect Desktop seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Office applications to provide a consistent user experience. And the productivity features that you used in InfoConnect classic editions are more powerful than ever. You will be amazed at how much these tools save time.

  • Open an e-mail message or Word document, and automatically include the current host screen content in the message or document.
  • Send a single screen or a series of screens to a PowerPoint presentation to create training decks or manuals for host applications.
  • Configure information privacy filters to prevent online display of sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and account and personal identification numbers.
  • Use the auto-complete and auto-expand functions to save time and keystrokes, and the built-in spell- check function to reduce errors.

Instead of just emulating a dumb terminal, InfoConnect Desktop makes your emulation sessions powerful, productive, secure, and easy to use.

Open any number of sessions in the InfoConnect Desktop Pro workspace, and connect to any combination of Unisys 2200 and A-Series, IBM mainframe, ALC, T27, AS/400 (IBM System i), UNIX/Linux, HPe3000, or OpenVMS hosts. Each session appears within its own tabbed window, making it fast and easy to move between sessions. Session documents include pointers to mouse maps, keyboard maps, theme files, hotspot files, and Ribbons that you can customize for greater efficiency. And all customizations can be stored in a single, compound session document for easy management and deployment.

Four pre-defined user interface modes make it easy for users to configure a workspace appropriate to their work style. These include the default Ribbon, the Classic MDI (similar to the multiple document interface used in InfoConnect Accessory Manager in InfoConnect classic editions), the Browser style, and TouchUx (designed for use on mobile devices with Citrix XenApp/Receiver). See “User Experience Options” below to learn more. Each interface can also be customized to further meet individual needs, and administrators can deploy customizations to users.

You can even open Web applications in the workspace. You can, for example, copy an address out of your customer database, paste it into your favorite online mapping application, and get directions to the customer location. Or, create a custom application using the InfoConnect Desktop .NET API to automate this process. Once your sessions have been configured to your liking, you can save them as a layout file, which opens them together with a single click.

You can quickly take advantage of the advanced capabilities of InfoConnect Desktop because it supports your existing IT infrastructure, including Windows 7, 8, and 10, Windows Remote Desktop Services, and Citrix XenApp platform, as well as other virtualization platforms.

If you don’t yet have InfoConnect Desktop software, go to Request a Trial and fill out an evaluation request form. You’ll be sent an e-mail message with instructions on how to download and install InfoConnect. Once you’ve installed the software, you’ll want to take a brief tour of the new user interface.