May 26 2015
You may need to launch AS400 sessions at boot for various reasons such as automated scripts or print sessions. Here are a few pitfalls you may encounter. First of all, sessions wouldn’t launch without pcsws.exe extra parameters /H – for Hidden – and eventually /Q – to hide the IBM popup window. pcsws.exe options are […]
May 23 2015
IBM i can communicate with a Windows printer share using the LDP Unix protocol. This is so much better than a Client Access printer session since it relies on a simple share and a Windows service. There is no need to start a session manually. On Windows On the Windows server, open server manager, add […]
Apr 19 2015
Client Access can be deployed by GPO with the MSI file provided in the installation directory. However you will have to create a MST file containing custom parameters that will add up to the MSI. Create a Transform file The transform file contains customized settings you may apply to the software you are going to […]
Jan 18 2011
You can open any kind of document on Windows from an IBM i 5250 session or a CL program.The type of file can either be an image or a picture (jpeg, tiff, bmp, png), a video (avi, mpeg), a PDF, an office document (word, excel, powerpoint), and even an Internet link (URL). AS400 provides the strpccmd […]
Jul 02 2009
IBM i / AS400 QSTRUP is the CL program loaded when the system boots and it may be useful to change it. You may want to add the MKDIR command line for instance to have a permanent share mounted.I’m saying program as QSTRUP is a compiled program, rather than a simple text file. You can get […]