[K12OSN] [K12os] HOD access

[Julius Szelagiewicz <julius turtle com>]

Dear Folks,
	this may seem off topic, but ... I have to allow many users to
connect to external ibm mainframes by hod - host-on-demand. this is a java
based product running on ibm iron that allows secure connect and ibm
terminal emulation (among other things). ibm insists on loading their
version of jre, which i did, but i still get errors from applet, namely
"unable to create jar cache in /tmp directory ...". bogus error, since
/tmp is mod 777, but the applet doesn't work. ibm is no help at all, i
can't even read tech support database documents without having a paid
software contract. the supplier whose computers i access doesn't care and
is clueless. do any of you have ideas how to deal with it? if i don't get
it solved, i'll have to give the people affected windoze machines, since
the stuff works fine on them. this would be tragic. thanks, julius