Enhancements For Client Access Express For Windows In V4R5M0 - IBM AS/400e User Handbook Manual

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present AS/400 data to the user from a Java program. The GUI classes use the Java
Swing 1.0 (JFC 1.1) framework. The AS/400 Toolbox for Java is a separately installed
option of Client Access install. Once installed through Client Access, future updates to
the Java Toolbox is delivered to PC users through the Client Access directory update
function
• Client Access Express Toolkit: Contains Visual Basic Wizards (for use with the OLE
DB provider). The toolkit help file contains useful links to PC files and URLs where
sample programs, documentation, headers, and libraries are provided using Visual
Basic, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Visual C++, Lotus 1-2-3, and Internet Explorer so
programmers can easily start building applications using the Express client APIs. The
Express toolkit is shipped on the Client Access Family for Windows PC CD-ROM and
is also accessible from the Client Access Web page.

Enhancements for Client Access Express for Windows in V4R5M0

PC5250 Display and Printer Emulation
Information about a PC5250 session is maintained in a .WS profile. This profile can be stored
on each PC user's desktop. Or an AS/400 administrator can maintain it on an AS/400 system
and all PC5250 sessions can share its use. This enables an administrator to standardize the
keyboard, display, etc. settings that are being used. The following new options are available
to PC5250 users.
When PC5250 was first enabled to run natively over TCP/IP protocols, it did not provide the
ability to specify a unique workstation device ID. Subsequently it was enhanced to provide
this capability. However, the device ID had to be separately defined for each session. Several
methods and capabilities are available for assigning workstation device IDs, for example:
• Part of the device ID could be assigned a generic name (for example WS1, or the
Windows Computer Name, or the Windows User Name). It could also be prefaced with
a "P" for a printer session or an "S" for a display session, and it could be appended
with the session ID (for example, A, B, C) or an auto-incrementing ID (for example 1,
2, 3).
• Multiple 5250 sessions can share the same .WS profile.
• Users can paste data from a spreadsheet into successive unprotected fields in a 5250
session since the PC5250 paste function advances the text data from one field to the
next whenever it encounters a Tab key.
• A VBScript command has been created to allow other programs to be called from
within a PC5250 VBScript Macro.
• When starting a Telnet 5250 session, the PC code page and character set were
ignored when creating the device description for the emulation session, and the
AS/400 primary language settings were used. PC5250 uses the PC code page and
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