Yeah, I read that using the IBM Personal Communications package was a big win, using Win32::OLE ( i think from one of your old posts ;). Problem is, i'd like to stay in the open source world if at all possible, since that package is kinda costly. Here's what i did with IPC::Run (aand some example code found here 
#!/usr/bin/perl


my @s3270 = s3270;

use IPC::Run qw( start pump finish timeout );
$IPCRUNDEBUG=details;
      # Incrementally read from / write to scalars.
      # $in is drained as it is fed to cat's stdin,
      # $out accumulates cat's stdout
      # $err accumulates cat's stderr
      # $h is for "harness".
      my $h = start \@s3270, \$in, \$out, \$err, timeout( 10 );

      $in .= "connect(L:ssl3270.myhost.org:2023)\n";
      $in .= "ascii\n";
      $in .= "quit";
      finish $h or die "s3270 returned $?";

      warn $err if $err;
      print $out;         ## All of s3270's output

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