Re: Operations Console problem + question

["Larry D. Bolhuis" <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Jamie,

  I have no clue on the font issue but I have set this up on NT without this 
problem.

  A couple things:
  1) NT MUST have SP3 installed and Client Access needs a current fixpack (we 
used SF50134).  
  2) Since you will probably be installing RAS and a null modem (This is a 
SOFTWARE null moadem and
it's in the install steps for CA Console on NT) you MUST re-install SP3 after 
that or the connection
will not work.

  Yes you will get the DST signon each time. There is now minimal TCP/IP 
support in DST and the base
connection to the AS/400 is set up at that level so that you can run DST from 
the console.

  And don't feel bad about the time.  We had the AS/400 up in 20 minutes but 
spent a day (including
trying new cables, and plenty of time on the phone with support) to the the 
console working!


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Larry Bolhuis         |
Arbor Solutions, Inc  | Two rules to success in life:
(616) 451-2500        | 1. Never tell people everything you know.
lbolhui@ibm.net       |
  

Jamie Pratt wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone...
> 
> I just recently set up our new 9406-170 model using a Win95(b) PC as
> the console using the Operations Console cable setup.   (NOT the
> CA/System console variation)  After successfully getting it connected,
> here is the big problem:  The pc5250 emulator font keeps defaulting to
> "Tahoma - scaled 6 x 12" .   I can go to change the font, however it
> doesn't update the screen with the new font (both Fixed size, and the
> other options),  it just keeps using "Tahoma".   This really wouldnt
> be a problem, however, most things are unreadable - for instance, a
> capital Q shows as a capital C, and all the letters you type slightly
> overrun each other.  - As another example, you can only read the first
> 3 digits of the machine serial number when you look at a signon
> screen, the rest floats off the side of the display....
>  I have tried everything I could think of to get this screen readable,
> so we can get this baby up and running....  (Natives are getting
> restless, dontcha know!)   I even went so far as to remove the Tahoma
> font from windows itself thinking that should surely do it....
> Result:  It just grabbed "Arial scalable 6 x 12" instead!!!
> ARGGHHH!!!   This font is about the same as the Tahoma in terms of
> readability, in fact it's almost worse! ....  I should also add that
> neither of these fonts shows in the list in the emulator, so I have no
> idea where it is picking up the font settings from....  Even rebooting
> after changing it and saving the *.ws file doesn't work!  Needless to
> say,  I am about to give up, and start tomorrow afresh with a
> different PC running a fresh copy of NT(SP3) which should help the
> stability issue I'm having as well (5250 sometimes crashes 95 on
> MSVCRT.DLL and requires reboot to clear the connection)  and I'm
> hoping the font problem doesn't show up with NT...  (fingers crossed!)
> 
>  I scoured the manuals and the web, as well as dejanews to see if
> anyone had reported the problem in comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, but I
> found almost nothing on the PC5250 emulation, or fonts for that
> matter....   Anyone have any ideas before I go wallowing into NT and
> more IPL's tomorrow??
> 
> ...Another quick question, is it normal to get the DST signon box
> everytime the connection is made between the PC and the 400?? ...
> After I enter the default QSECOFR/QSECOFR in the grey DST signon box,
> I get the normal "DSP01" display....  It does this everytime I reboot
> the pc, and fire up the Operations Console icon...  ( Doesn't  quite
> seem right to me,  but our CE wasn't sure about whether it was normal
> or not, I'm just assuming since virtually nothing is config'ed (no
> network, lines, etc...) on the 400 other than the date/time, that it
> must be normal??)
> 
> Thanks for any help,  I just cant' believe that I have spent almost
> two days trying to get the emulation font to work correctly, but it
> only took a few hours to get the hardware up!....(including numerous
> calls to IBM) ....  Talk about frustration!!
> 
> Also, sorry to write so much, but I wanted to be as clear as possible!
> 
> thanks for any help,
> Jamie
> 
> Jamie Pratt
> prattj@bcbsvt.com
> EDI Systems Technician
> BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont
> (802)371-3634
> 
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