The 5250 terminal emulator is a management window that runs on the Hardware Management Console (HMC), Operations Console, and the twinaxial console for System i® systems.
You can enter control language (CL) commands on the 5250 terminal emulator command line to run commands. You can also use the character-based interface to find information about workloads that run on i5/OS® partitions. The 5250 terminal emulator is integrated with the twinaxial console, and it runs as a terminal emulator on the HMC and Operations Console. The 5250 terminal emulator can also run on a proxy server on the HMC for remote system administration.
See Character-based interface in the System i Information Center for more information about the 5250 terminal emulator and other character-based interfaces.