WRQ Reflection Suite for X

Reflection Suite for X is a PC X server, NFS client, and terminal emulation software all rolled into one. With this multi-purpose solution, you can connect Windows® users to applications on UNIX, OpenVMS, IBM, Unisys, and Linux systems. You can provide easy access to NFS resources. And you can use the suite’s advanced capabilities to cut the complexity of desktop management.

Suite Products

  • Reflection X
  • Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS
  • Reflection for IBM
  • Reflection NFS Client
Each product is also sold separately.

Reflection X

What's New in Reflection X 13.0?

  • Secure troubleshooting capability lets you quickly handle remote-user issues.
  • Downloadable templates allow you to instantly configure X server settings and connections (available to WRQ Maintenance customers only).
  • Secure Shell enhancements, including a new SSH key agent, simplify user authentication.
  • The ability to run more than one XDMCP session, without resetting the X server, increases productivity and reduces help desk calls.
  • X Client Wizard support for all connection methods ensures that connection files are built in a fail-safe manner.
  • WRQ FTP client enhancements make it easy to configure, deploy, and start FTP sessions.
  • Single sign-on provides secure access to all approved hosts and servers with one convenient password.
  • Display enhancements, including support for DOUBLE-BUFFER and XF86_BIGFONT extensions, improve user performance.
  • Support for 3Dconnexion SpaceBall® 5000 and SpaceMouse® Plus lets CAD/CAM specialists build designs using standard input devices.
  • Broad-ranging usability enhancements make desktop tasks easier for users.

Host Types

  • ADPS-UX, AIX, Bull, Dynix, EWS-UX/V, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, News-OS, OpenVMS, SCO UNIX, SGI, Siemens, Solaris, and Tru64

Display

  • X11R6.8 compliance
  • Support for DOUBLE-BUFFER extension
  • Support for XF86_BIGFONT extension
  • Support for multiple X screens
  • Application-specific icons and configurable foreground color
  • Support for multiple XDMCP sessions
  • Multiple X display
  • Multiple monitor support
  • GrayScale, PseudoColor, StaticColor, StaticGray, and TrueColor emulation with single or multiple hardware colormap emulation
  • Color depths: 1, 8, 24, and 32
  • Support for local and remote window managers:
    • Microsoft® Windows or Reflection X local window manager
    • All remote window managers used by X desktops (CDE, GNOME, KDE, VUE, and more)
    • Embedded Broadway (X11R6.3) window manager for browsers that support plug-ins
  • Sun X server compatibility settings
  • Support for up to 1024 display numbers for WTS/Citrix
  • Support for non-standard-sized color cursors
  • Motif hints, cascade windows, and X focus policy
  • Window panning
  • Virtual screen support through Virtual Desktop Manager1
  • Backing store and save unders
  • X extensions:
    • GLX, LBX, SHAPE, XINPUT, BIG-REQUESTS, XC-APPGROUP, SECURITY, EVI, XTEST, MBX, SYNC, TOG-CUP, DEC-XTRAP, XC-MISC, DOUBLE-BUFFER, XF86_BIGFONT, XKB, MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD, XDIRECTACCESS, GP-MIT-SHM, MIT-SHM, WRQ-ADMIN, and WRQ_XPRINT

Copy and Paste

  • Automatic image pasting to graphics editor
  • X Selection, copy (text, area, or window), auto copy/ paste, copy on focus loss, and copy to Windows printers

Network Protocols and Functions

  • XDMCP (direct, indirect, and broadcast)
  • Telnet, rexec, rsh, rlogin, Secure Shell, Kerberized Telnet, PCX$SERVER, and local X clients
  • Automatic multiple network interface support
  • Transports: TCP/IP, DECNet, and UNIX domain sockets
  • X11 over IPv6
  • Multicast (IPv6)
  • Long host-name support
  • Built-in VPN functions
  • Network error logging
  • SLIP/PPP support and LBX

GLX Support

  • GLX 1.3, OpenGL 1.4, overlay plane support, stereo support, and accelerated 3-D hardware support
  • RXPFD (GLX troubleshooting utility)

Font Support

  • SSH-based font-retrieval function
  • Support for Windows fonts (including TrueType, ClearType, Microsoft OpenType, FON, and FNT)
  • Auto-detection of non-running font servers
  • X11R5/X11R6 font server with local font caching
  • Automatic font–server connection
  • Support for BDF, PCF, and compressed PCF/BDF
  • Font scaling and rotation
  • Font activity logging
  • Unicode fonts

Keyboard Support

  • Graphical keyboard mapping
  • Customizable mapping
  • Quick Keymap Switching
  • Support for Windows reserved-shortcut keys in X Window environments
  • International keyboard mapping
  • Host keyboard emulation: Sun, HP, IBM, SCO, and DEC (including LK450)

Mouse Support

  • Support for 3Dconnexion SpaceBall 5000 and SpaceMouse Plus
  • 3-button emulation
  • Wheel-mouse scroll support for buttons 4 and 5; mapping to keyboard events

File Transfer

  • Management of FTP settings via Reflection Administrator
  • Support for IPv6 networks in the FTP client
  • Ability to save FTP client sessions in Layouts
  • Change UNIX file permissions with FTP client
  • Move settings to configuration files
  • SFTP downloads resume after interruption
  • FTP client:
    • Support for a variety of FTP servers (UNIX, NetWare, Unisys, HP 3000, IBM mainframe, AS/400, and OpenVMS)
    • FTP site wizard
    • Site-to-site transfer between FTP servers
    • Export/import settings in XML format
    • Wildcard filters
    • Automation tools (script recorder and Microsoft® OLE Automation)
    • SSL/TLS encryption for FTP file transfers
    • Secure file transfer via SFTP
    • Kerberos 5 authentication and encryption support
  • Drag-and-drop file transfers directly to the desktop
  • WRQ proprietary protocol; FTP, Kermit, Xmodem,
    and Zmodem
  • ASCII and binary supported

Accessibility Support

  • Support for XKB extension
  • Support for Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA)
  • Support for JAWS® for Windows
  • Support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP
    on-screen keyboard functions
  • Integrated support for MAS, SAI’s Media
    Application Server

Security Methods

  • Host-based security to determine which clients can connect to the X server
  • User-based security with MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE or XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1

Security Protocols

  • SSH key agent
  • PKI support in the Reflection Secure Shell Client
  • SSH command-line utility
  • Easier uploading of users’ public keys to SSH servers
  • Secure Shell encryption:
    • Connections to SSH1 and SSH2 protocol servers
    • Port forwarding for TCP/IP ports through secure channel
    • Password, keyboard interactive, user key, and Kerberos authentication
    • Key generation and conversion (RSA-1, RSA, and DSA) utility
    • scp and sftp file transfer utilities
    • Standard SSH configurations
  • Reflection Kerberos Client:
    • Secure authentication
    • Datastream encryption (DES and 3DES) for Telnet and FTP
    • Supports ticket forwarding and renewal
    • Compatible with Microsoft and Leash32 credentials caches
    • Standard Kerberos configurations
    • Support for Kerberos KDC’s using TCP or UDP

Administrative Tools

  • Secure troubleshooting for remote configurations
  • Downloadable templates (available to WRQ Maintenance customers only)
  • Single sign-on
  • X Client Wizard enhancements
  • X Manager to manage multiple X clients and servers
  • Consolidated view of all configuration settings
  • X profiler
  • X Client Wizard
  • Connection wizard
  • Quick-start connection templates
  • Quick-start server templates
  • X performance tuner
  • X protocol trace and replay utility with custom filters for troubleshooting, user training, or presentation
  • RunRX for customizing X client launching methods
    (can be used with scripting tools such as Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications or Perl)
  • Customization tools for:
    • Settings and installation files (including MSI)
    • Online help
  • Web-based deployment of settings files and updates
  • Usage metering
  • Support for Windows administration features:
    • Windows Installer
    • Active Directory
    • Roaming user and multiple user profiles
    • Group Policy
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
  • Support for Citrix® MetaFrame™
  • Graphical PING
  • TimeSync1

International Support

  • Japanese inline input
  • Input method: XIM (I18N and XIMP), Microsoft-IME, and LocalFEP
  • Ability to switch languages (English, French, German, and Japanese) without restarting
  • Support for double-byte fonts, including Chinese

Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS

What's New in Reflection for UNIX and OpenVMS 13.0?

  • Single sign-on provides secure access to all approved hosts and servers with one convenient password.
  • SSH key agent strengthens security while making public-key authentication easier for users.
  • PKI support in the Reflection Secure Shell and SSL/TLS clients simplifies user authentication.
  • SSH command-line utility makes it possible to use commands, rather than graphical interfaces, for SSH tasks.
  • Easier uploading of users’ public keys to an SSH server encourages adoption of public-key authentication.
  • Support for IPv6 networks and SOCKSv5 allows you to provide host access within your existing network infrastructure.
  • Users of the F-Secure SSH Windows Client can migrate to Reflection emulation products without losing their configuration settings.
  • WRQ FTP client enhancements make it easy to configure, deploy, and start FTP sessions.
  • Session-order feature lets users work in pre-selected sessions while other sessions are loading.
  • New emulation options, including QNX4 and xterm, increase your range of access.
  • X11 mouse-style support gives Windows users the same feel and functionality as an X11 mouse.
  • Enhanced support for Windows Terminal Server APIs improves access to Reflection in WTS environments.
  • SFTP downloads resume if interrupted, saving time and conserving network bandwidth.

Host Types

  • UNIX (including Linux)
  • OpenVMS
  • Unisys A Series
  • Data General

Emulation Types

  • QNX4
  • xterm
  • UNIX and OpenVMS:
    • VT520/525, VT500-7, VT500-8, VT420, VT400-7, VT400-8, VT320, VT286, VT220, VT102, and VT52
    • VT-UTF8 and UTF-8 (Unicode) character-set support
    • TVI 950/955, Wyse 50+, Wyse60, ADDS VP2, SCO-ANSI, and BBS-ANSI
    • Linux console, AT386, and IBM 3151
    • Japanese terminal emulation (VT382, VT282, VT100, VT80, and others)
    • ReGIS, sixel, and Tektronix graphics terminal emulation (VT340, VT330, VT241, and Tektronix 4010/4014)
  • Unisys:
    • T27
  • Data General
    • Dasher 215

Network Protocols

  • Support for IPv6 networks (Telnet, Secure Shell, and OpenSSL)
  • Support for SOCKSv5 client
  • Extensive Telnet options with support for threaded I/O; Line mode; NAWS (option 31); Local Echo, including Telnet option 45 (Suppress Local Echo)
  • Rlogin, TCP/IP, and network-based modems
  • Full support for serial connections, including automatic serial-port detection and USB
  • Third-party LAT support
  • TAPI 3.0 support

File Transfer

  • Management of FTP settings via Reflection Administrator
  • Support for IPv6 networks in the FTP client
  • Ability to save FTP client sessions in Layouts
  • Change UNIX file permissions with FTP client
  • Move settings to configuration files
  • SFTP downloads resume after interruption
  • FTP client:
    • Support for a wide variety of FTP servers (UNIX, NetWare, Unisys, HP 3000, IBM mainframe, AS/400, and OpenVMS)
    • FTP site wizard
    • Site-to-site transfer between FTP servers
    • Export/import settings in XML format
    • Wildcard filters
    • Automation tools (script recorder and Microsoft OLE Automation)
    • SSL/TLS encryption for FTP file transfers
    • Secure file transfer via SFTP
    • Kerberos 5 authentication and encryption support
  • Drag-and-drop file transfers directly to the desktop
  • WRQ proprietary protocol; FTP, Kermit, Xmodem, and Zmodem
  • ASCII, binary, and image supported

Printing

  • Windows or host control
  • Network, local, or print-to-disk
  • Sixel and color graphics support
  • Print logging
  • Fixed pitch TrueType and printer font
  • Serial device to host communications
  • Line-drawing characters
  • Optimized page formatting
  • LPD

Programming and Automation

  • Session-order feature
  • Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA 6.4)
  • VBA-macro output available in VB.NET and C# (.NET)
  • VBA-macro sharing
  • Macro recorder for VBA and Visual Basic
  • Programmatic access to over 400 properties and methods via Reflection API
  • Microsoft OLE Automation 2.0 Controller and server capability
  • Reflection Basic and Reflection Command Language
  • Run Reflection as an ActiveX control within a VB or VB.NET application
  • Programmable events

User Interface

  • F-Secure SSH Windows Client settings-file migration
  • Support for X11 mouse style
  • Connection wizard
  • Customizable toolbars and menus
  • Dynamic hotspots
  • Full-screen terminal mode
  • Graphical keyboard mapping
  • Mouse mapping (2- and 3-button)
  • Resizable terminal keyboard
  • Full color editing
  • HTML Help in the customization tools

Security

  • SSH key agent
  • PKI support in the Reflection Secure Shell Client
  • SSH command-line utility
  • Easier uploading of users’ public keys to SSH servers
  • SSL/TLS Telnet encryption:
    • Integrated SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 Telnet encryption through Reflection OpenSSL Client
  • Secure Shell encryption:
    • Connections to SSH1 and SSH2 protocol servers
    • Port forwarding for TCP/IP ports through secure channel
    • Password, user key, and Kerberos authentication
    • Key generation and conversion (RSA-1, RSA, and DSA) utility
    • scp and sftp file transfer utilities
    • Standard SSH configurations
  • Reflection Kerberos Client:
    • Secure authentication
    • Datastream encryption (DES and 3DES) for Telnet and FTP
    • Supports ticket forwarding and renewal
    • Compatible with Microsoft and Leash32 credentials caches
    • Standard Kerberos configurations
    • Support for Kerberos KDC's using TCP or UDP

Administrative Tools

  • Single sign-on
  • Enhanced support for Windows Terminal
  • Centralized management of settings files using group policy
  • Usage metering
  • Customization tools for:
    • Settings and installation files (including MSI)
    • Online help
  • Web-based deployment of settings files and updates
  • Support for Windows administration features:
    • Windows Installer
    • Active Directory
    • Roaming user and multiple user profiles
    • Group Policy
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
  • Support for Citrix® MetaFrame™
  • Graphical PING
  • TimeSync1

International Support

  • English, French, German, and Japanese versions
  • Localized keyboards, displays, and printers
  • Japanese PC-9800 series
  • Support for Asian input-method editors

Reflection for IBM

What's New in Reflection for IBM 13.0?

  • Single sign-on provides secure access to all approved hosts and servers with one convenient password.
  • WRQ FTP client enhancements make it easy to configure, deploy, and start FTP sessions.
  • Session-order feature lets users work in pre-selected sessions while other sessions are loading.
  • Redesigned user interface simplifies batch-file transfers and improves access to file-transfer settings.
  • SSL encryption protects AS/400 LIPI file transfers.
  • Screens can be modified to accommodate custom host applications with varying screen sizes (e.g., 60x132).
  • Users can browse TSO host-file lists without sending Reflection script files to the host.

Host Types

  • IBM mainframe (3270)
  • IBM AS/400 (5250)

Emulation Types

  • IBM mainframe:
    • 3179, 3179-G, 3180, 3192-G, 3196, 3197, 3270, 3278, 3279, 3472-G, 3476, 3477, 3486, and 3487
  • IBM AS/400:
    • 5250, 5251, 5291, and 5292

Network Protocols

  • IBM mainframe:
    • 802.2 (DLC)
    • Coax DFT
    • IBM Communication Server
    • LUA
    • Microsoft® SNA Server
    • NetWare® for SAA® via IPX/SPX
    • NetWare for SAA via TCP/IP
    • SDLC
    • LU 6.2 (APPC)
    • TN3270 and TN3270E
    • HiT ODBC/DB2 Lite driver
  • IBM AS/400:
    • 802.2 (DLC)
    • IBM Communication Server
    • Microsoft SNA Server
    • MPTN (AnyNet)
    • NetWare for SAA
    • LU 6.2 (APPC)
    • TN5250 and TN5250E
    • HiT ODBC/400 Lite driver

File Transfer

  • File browsing on TSO hosts with no host-side intrusion or modification
  • SSL encryption for AS/400 LIPI file transfers
  • Management of FTP client settings via Reflection Administrator
  • Support for IPv6 networks in the FTP client
  • Ability to save FTP client sessions in Layouts
  • Change UNIX file permissions with FTP client
  • Move settings to configuration files
  • FTP file transfer in the UI
  • FTP client:
    • Support for a wide variety of FTP servers (UNIX, NetWare, Unisys, HP 3000, IBM mainframe, AS/400, and OpenVMS)
    • Site-to-site transfer between FTP servers
    • FTP site wizard
    • Export/import settings in XML format
    • Wildcard filters
    • Automation tools (script recorder and Microsoft OLE Automation)
    • SSL/TLS encryption for FTP file transfers
    • Kerberos 5 authentication
    • IND$File, DISOSS, SQL data query, batch-file transfer, and APVUFILE

Printing

  • 3287, 3812, 3912, and 5553 printer emulation
  • Pre-printed form support
  • Print screen with consolidated screen-printing utility
  • Host Print Transform
  • Duplex printing
  • LPD

Programming and Automation

  • Session-order feature
  • One session file for settings and macros
  • Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA 6.4)
  • VBA-macro output available in VB.NET and C# (.NET)
  • VBA-macro sharing
  • Macro-recorder support for VBA and Visual Basic
  • Programmatic access to over 400 properties and methods via Reflection API
  • DOS HLLAPI, HLLAPI, eHLLAPI, WinHLLAPI, IMAPI, CPI-C, and WinAPPC
  • Microsoft OLE Automation 2.0 Controller and server capability
  • Reflection Basic
  • Programmable events
  • Run Reflection as an ActiveX® control within a VB or VB.NET application
  • Microsoft Dynamic Data Exchange

User Interface

  • Redesigned to simplify batch-file transfers and improve access to file-transfer settings
  • Customizable screen sizes
  • Font sizing
  • Removable title bar
  • 3270 word wrap
  • FTP toolbar button
  • Connection wizard
  • Customizable toolbars and menus
  • Dynamic hot spots
  • Graphical keyboard mapping
  • Mouse mapping (2- and 3-button)
  • Resizable terminal keyboard
  • Full color editing
  • HTML Help in the customization tools

Migration Options

  • Conversion of competitive macros, keyboard maps, and session-configuration files

Security

  • Integrated SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 Telnet encryption through Microsoft security APIs2
  • Reflection Kerberos Client for secure authentication

Administrative Tools

  • Single sign-on
  • Auto-update of device names
  • Centralized management of settings files using group policy
  • Usage metering
  • Customization tools for:
    • Settings and installation files (including MSI)
    • Online help
  • Web-based deployment of settings files and updates
  • Support for Windows administration features:
    • Windows Installer
    • Active Directory
    • Roaming user and multiple user profiles
    • Group Policy
  • Support for Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
  • Support for Citrix® MetaFrame™
  • Graphical PING
  • TimeSync1

International Support

  • Support for the Chinese Simplified code page
  • English, French, German, and Japanese versions
  • Localized keyboards, displays, and printers
  • Japanese PC-9800 series
  • Support for Asian input-method editors

Reflection NFS Client

What's New in 13.0?

  • LDAP support lets you standardize user authentication across the enterprise.
  • Support for host-access control list allows you to specify a range of servers that NFS clients can access.
  • Enhanced pcscript capabilities provide centralized administration and personalized access, even in non-NIS environments.
  • Support for the WNet API lets you programmatically automate NFS operations.

Host Types

  • UNIX platforms, including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, EWS-UX/V, SCO UNIX, ADPS-UX, News-OS, Tru64, OS/F1, Siemens, Bull, Dynix, OpenBSD, and Linux
  • Other platforms, including OpenVMS3, HP e30003, IBM AS/400 (iSeries)3, and IBM mainframe3

  File Services

  • Multi-user password caching
  • Monitored locks
  • Support for NFS 3.0
  • Support for NIS, including Automount
  • Dynamic or manual sizing of read/write buffer
  • NFS file and directory caching
  • Support for case-based file names
  • Search for server file systems over TCP/IP
  • OLE file-locking support
  • Support for the Windows net use command
  • Symbolic links
  • FTP client

Printing Services

  • LPD
  • Print to NFS printer
  • Print to file on host
  • Search for server print queues over TCP/IP

Desktop–Access Options

  • Automatic reconnection/scripting on startup in non-NIS environments
  • Access from My Computer and My Network Places
  • Access from Windows Printers Control Panel
  • Automatic reconnection/scripting on startup in NIS environments
  • Command line interface
  • NFS/NIS password change

Administrative Tools

  • Support for LDAP
  • Support for host-access control list
  • Support for the WNet API
  • Support for Microsoft® Windows Terminal Server
  • Microsoft Windows Event Viewer for logging and troubleshooting
  • Reflection NFS Utility
  • Export/import settings in XML format
  • Reflection Customization Manager
  • Microsoft Windows Installer
  • Reflection NFS Client API support
  • Graphical PING
  • TimeSync1

International Support

  • English, French, German, and Japanese4 versions

System Requirements

  • Any system that meets the recommended requirements for the Microsoft Windows operating system; an additional 64 MB of memory is recommended for better performance
  • 17 MB minimum of disk space
  • 256-color video card; 24-bit color recommended; accelerated OpenGL video card suggested for 3-D CAD/CAM applications
  • 100 mbs network speed suggested for 2-D and 3-D CAD/CAM applications
  • 2-button mouse, 3-button mouse, wheel mouse, 3Dconnexion SpaceBall 5000, or SpaceMouse Plus

Operating Systems

  • Microsoft Windows XP (32- and 64-bit editions)
  • Microsoft Windows 2000
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
  • Citrix MetaFrame5

Browser Support
(for emulators only)

  • Use Reflection Web Launch to deploy settings and updates via a web browser
  • Convert Reflection settings files for use with Reflection for the Web
  • Run Reflection as an ActiveX control in supported browsers

 

1 Not available on Windows XP.
2 Available for Windows 2000 and Windows XP desktops only.
3 Third-party NFSD software must be installed on the host system.
4 Reflection NFS Utility is available in English
5 Not available for Reflection NFS Client.

 



 

 


   
   

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