Communications/Transactions Guide and Reference
To set up an APPC conversation, open the settings for the Proc Dialog part,
then fill in the following fields on the Destination Information
page of the notebook:
- Partner TP name
- The name of the transaction program you want to access on the remote
host.
- Partner LU alias
- The alias of the logical unit (LU) you want to connect to on the remote
host. This is the LU through which the partner TP accesses the
network. If you provide a value in the Fully qualified partner LU
name field, this field is not necessary.
- Fully qualified partner LU name
- The fully qualified LU name of the remote LU you want to connect
to. If you provide a value in the Partner LU alias field,
this field is not necessary.
You can also specify values in the optional security fields of the settings
notebook. On the Destination page you can fill in the
following fields:
- User ID
- The user ID required to access the remote system.
- Password
- The password required to access to remote system.
- Security type
- The level of APPC conversation security to use. The valid value
constants are as follows:
Fill in the following fields on the Conversation page:
- Local TP name
- The name that identifies the local program to the network. If you
do not provide a value in this field, VisualAge automatically generates a
unique name at run time.
- Local LU alias
- The local LU alias to use. The alias must be defined in your
communications software configuration. The VisualAge default value is
the default value specified in your communications configuration. This
field is used only when you specify a value in the Local TP name
field.
- Mode
- The transmission mode to use for the session. This can be any mode
defined in the local communications software configuration. The default
value is #INTER.
- Sync level
- The level of APPC synchronization to use for the conversation. The
valid value constants are as follows:
- Return control
- Specifies when the local LU returns control to the VisualAge application
following an attempt to open a connection. The valid value constants
are as follows:
- WhenSessionAllocated (Default)
- Immediate
- WhenSessionFree
- When ConwinnerAllocated
- WhenConvGroupAllocated
Fill in the following fields on the Data Attributes page:
- Code page
- The character code page used by the remote system. The default code
page is the current code page for the system.
- Buffer length
- The size of the memory buffer VisualAge should allocate for the data sent
to and received from the server. For a proc dialog, the buffer size
must be at least as large as the total size of the record used by the remote
program logic.
The default value for this field is 1024.
- Big endian
- A check box that determines the byte order for integers sent to the
partner. If checked, the partner uses a BigEndian format;
otherwise the partner uses LittleEndian format.
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