** Last updated 15 April 1998 **

This informational APAR contains updated information regarding:

   - Integration Services for FSIOP (5769SA2)
   - OS/400 Integration for Novell NetWare (5716SA3)
   - NetWare Enhanced Integration (5769SS1 - Option 25)

The Integrating AS/400 with Novell NetWare home page can be found by selecting the Software and Client/Server links from the AS/400 home page:

    http://www.as400.ibm.com/

Select the "Service and Support" category to access this, and related, Informational APARs on the World Wide Web.

Current PTFs for the FSIOP base and NetWare support:

PTF information is no longer retained in Info APARs. See the Service and Support page (as4nwss.htm) and select the Code Updates link.

NetWare 4.11 for Japan


NetWare 4.11 for Japan with the 2962 language version of 5769SA2 requires PTF SF43121.  Refer to the PTF cover letter for more information. 

NetWare 4.11 for Japan with the 2938 language version of 5769SA2 and NetWare 4.10 for Japan with either the 2938 or 2962 language versions of 5769SA2 are supported.

Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese


These language versions of IntranetWare (NetWare 4.11) are not supported on the Integrated PC Server.

NetWare is not supported on a Korean (2986), Traditional Chinese (2987), or Simplified Chinese (2989) server. If one of these languages is installed as the AS/400 primary language, the customer should install a secondary language such as 2938 (English Uppercase DBCS) or 2984 (English Uppercase and Lowercase DBCS), and then specify the
secondary  language version when installing the NetWare server.

NetWare tape support for OS/400 - additional information


If you are using a 1/2" cartridge AS/400 tape drive (3590, 3570) with the NetWare tape support for OS/400, do NOT load the tape immediately before you ALLOCATE or DEALLOCATE the drive from the NetWare console (RCONSOLE).

The error message you receive when you attempt the AS400TP ALLOCATE x or AS400TP DEALLOCATE x operation is:

QFPANW.NLM:021-AS/400 tape device 'x' NOT allocated, lost
connection with OS/2 device driver VT400.SYS.

This will cause the tape drive to hang and it will not be useable from NetWare or AS/400.  To recover the tape drive you must vary off the NetWare server where the ALLOCATE or DEALLOCATE was issued.

To assure that this condition does not occur, follow these steps to ALLOCATE the drive:

1) Vary on the tape drive from OS/400
2) Vary off the tape drive from OS/400
3) DO NOT load the tape drive with a tape
4) ALLOCATE the drive from NetWare
5) Now load the tape in the tape drive

Synchronizing the Integrated PC Server clock for *NETWARE.

When a *NETWARE Integrated PC Server is varied on, the monitor job will send a date/time request to OS/2 to set the clock on the Integrated PC Server.

It has been discovered that after a period of time the AS/400 and Integrated PC Server clocks become out of synch.

To keep both the AS/400 and Integrated PC Server clocks in synch, you can inform the monitor job to synchronize the clock every 30 minutes.  To do this, create a *DTAARA object named QFPATIME in library QUSRSYS.  No data need be contained in the *DTAARA.  You can use the following command to create this *DTAARA:

 CRTDTAARA DTAARA(QUSRSYS/QFPATIME) TYPE(*CHAR) +
   TEXT('Synchronize *NETWARE clock at 30 minute intervals.')

(Specifying the TEXT is optional.)

This will cause synchronization of the Integrated PC Server clock for all *NETWARE NWSDs on the system.

To change the behavior back to synchronize the clock one time at the beginning of the monitor job, delete the *DTAARA object:

 DLTDTAARA DTAARA(QUSRSYS/QFPATIME)

In a future release, the support for time synchronization may be integrated into the CRT/CHGNWSD commands and the QUSRSYS/QFPATIME *DTAARA will no longer be used.  When this occurs, you may need to issue the CHGNWSD command for each *NETWARE NWSD to specify that time synchronization should occur.