Here are a few commonly asked client setup questions. The focus of these setups will be to use secure communications to the i5/OS from your Windows or Linux machine. There are multiple “pay for” X clients for Windows that have great performance, but the offerings featured below are considered “no charge”, and can be “easily” used as i5/OS secure sshd clients.
You will need to edit the sshd_config file to enable X11Forwarding yes.
IBM i version vary over time/PTFs, so follow the links /QOpenSys/QIBM/UserData/SC1/OpenSSH
Depending on your client version of ssh, the “ssh -X” option may no longer works as it did in the past. It may use the XSECURITY extension by default, and 99.9% of all applications are written without any clue about XSECURITY. The usual sign of this is a bunch of “BadAtom” errors or other unexpected errors. If you want to get X11 forwarding you may have to use client “ssh -Y” option instead of “ssh -X”.
Tony “Ranger” Cairns - IBM i PHP / PASE