IBC233 03 2010

Introduction

This wiki-page is intended for students studying IBC233. Feel free to contribute anything you want as long as it is relevant to IBC233.

This wiki-page is maintained by students and is intended to be an informal place to share information. Please refer to the course materials or consult your professor regarding specific information related to your course.

Please do not post lab solutions here!

If you have any questions about this Wiki or IRC, you are welcome to email Ljubomir Gorscak

• gljubomir@learn.senecac.on.ca

IRC

There is an IRC on Freenode where a few Seneca students/iSeries enthusiasts hang out. Just go on to Freenode and join the conversation

• /join #seneca-ibc233

If you're looking for an IRC client you can try Chatzilla or you can chat through a browser by logging into webchat.freenode.net

If you notice or take part in an interesting IRC discussion about IBC233, please feel free to edit and paste it into this wiki page under General Discussion.

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Wiki

If you don't have a user ID and password you can select the Log in/Create Account link at the top-right of this page, and then select the Create an account link (or just click here).

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Useful Links

• IBC233 Home Page
• Cindy's IBC233 Page
• Video on how to install AS/400 Client access

Note: When on Windows 7 64-Bit, Client Access will install under Program Files (x86). When putting the files that are specified in the video in their appropriate directories, make sure they are named the same (case sensitive). Change "emulator" to EMULATOR and "private" to PRIVATE.

Once this is done. Open ZEUS.WS or any variation thereof and find the HOSTNAME parameter. It should say "ODIN.senecac.on.ca". This is not the server we are using. We are using ZEUS. Change the HOSTNAME paramater to HostName=ZEUS.senecac.on.ca.

Launch Client Access with any of the preferred .ws files and login as normal!

Labs

Lab 7

Tips

Ensure that the alert statements from Record 2 (This test will be dropped) DO NOT enter the area of record one. If the text constant enters the space of the first record the formatting will not execute properly. If the text constant overlays the first format the second format will execute as a new screen. If you are getting two pages instead of one, check to see where your text constants are located.

- Sean

Lab 8

Tips

On page 6 when you are creating the command source, make sure that you do not allow the characters to exceed column 70. If you go past column 70, it will not be interpreted.

There is a very good resource on the course website reference material link. It's the IBM Manuals. If you are not sure about something, try searching there.

F1 and F4 function keys are our best friends in this course. They can be pressed nearly under any circumstances. Just click on the place you are not sure about, and press them.

Problems 1

Hello friends,

I was working on Lab 8 and unfortunately I was forget to include indicator F3. After running my program i was unable to exit so i exit abnormally and resulting in error while running program next time.

Error No : CPF4131

Thanx in Advance for Solution.

Hi,

CPF4131 means that your file has changed, so you must recompile your CL or RPG program!

When creating commands, don't forget about the RSTD (Restricted Values) parameter. Using RSTD(*YES) means that only values on the value list can be entered!

Problem 2

Hello!

As I was attempting to complete lab 8, I ran into an error MCH3601, which means one of my parmaters are not correct. I've double checked my parameters but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Please help

Sorry I didn't see your message earlier. I need to see you code to figure this one out. The command entry screen passes parameters to your cl program, so if you're call in the program from the command line, it would be: call dspsyslvlp ('*DISPLAY' '*NO' '*NO') Hopefully, you've already asked this question in the lab!

Cindy

bco1

Lab 10

Remember to test your menu with the userid given in the lab! Options 3 and 6 need a little bit more thought than the others!

I want to be reminded about what you said about the adding another user with *USE authority on the last page of lab 10.

Use the EDTOBJAUT command or the PDM short cut EA. Press F6 and add the user.

Lab 12

In the data transfer section of the lab, after browsing to your students file and clicking on 'Transfer data from AS/400' might not work until you change the time and date settings to 'USA Standard'. You can find and change this setting by clicking on 'Format Options...' select the date and time drop down lists (there are two drop down lists) then select 'USA Standard'. - C16

General Discussion

Post anything relevant

Students

Take a look at Ljubomir's example, copy/paste it, and modify it with your own info. If a category does not apply to you, just leave a dash '-' or 'N/A'

First Name	Last Name	Seneca Learn ID	Section	Blog Url	IRC Nick
Ljubomir	Gorscak	gljubomir	N/A	Ljubomir's Blog	ljubo & ljog
Cindy	Laurin	N/A	N/A	Cindy's Home Page	claurin
Shengwei	Wang	swang94	N/A	N/A	shengwei
Bhavanesh	Patel	bapatel5	AB	Bhavanesh's Home Page	Bhavnesh
Daniel	Slessarev	dslessarev	C	Daniel's Blog	danielSays
Moses	Ogundipe	maogundi	C	Moses' Home Page	C16
Blaze	Co	bco1	C	n/a	bco1
Sean	Clarke	smclarke2	C	N/A	Seanland
Bhrugesh	Patel	bapatel6	A	N/A	N/A
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