Re: CA Express and Life Certainties (A question appears at the end) -- MIDRANGE-L

Dean,
The one thing I didn't see you mention was adding another AS/400 connection
through the Operations Navigator.
If you right click on the primary environment key and step through the
connection wizard that will establish the new host link.  Then when that is
done
you can open your default 5250 emulator for CA Express and through the
session setup finish the connection for that new host.
I hope this helps.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: <DAsmussen@aol.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:01 AM
Subject: CA Express and Life Certainties (A question appears at the end)


> Folks,
>
> It has been said that the only things certain in life are death and taxes.
I
> would submit four more entries:
>
> 1. IBM will always produce a harder to use emulation product than third
> parties writing to its own platforms.
> 2. IBM will always use 2-5+ manuals to describe what other vendors usually
> distill into one, providing no links between them.
> 3. On the odd chance you have a choice of only two IBM manuals for a
specific
> subject, you will always choose the "User's Guide" when you need the
> "Reference" and vice versa.
> 4.  Unless your problem is either very simple or very old, you will always
> have to come to midrange-l in order to find the answer you seek.
>
> On the bright side, with the advent of the web I no longer have to find
the
> desk space to support so many manuals open to various pages at the same
time.
>  Herewith, the question:
>
> I have a client moving from Rumba to CA Express (4.5.1) as part of a
> corporate-wide standardization project.  Said client has several systems
> attached throughout the continent via TCP/IP locally, and at least one
> customer remotely.  This client has very few connections actually
described
> on my local AS/400, in fact, none explicitly.
>
> I'm no TCP/IP expert, but I do know this.  I can connect CA Express to my
> local host via the Wizard without difficulty using the system name.  I can
> further connect to one of our remote locations that appears on the local
> AS/400 under NETSTAT with a generic address of First Three Digits (dot)
> Second Three Digits (dot) zero (dot) zero where the succeeding zeros are
> actually more explicit numbers, using the explicit number under CAE and a
> setting of "Server".  I _CANNOT_ seem to connect to the remote customer
> utilizing the same methodology used for the remote in-house location, and
the
> remote customer has no similar generic entry under NETSTAT.
>
> I also know that, after adding a HOSTS entry to my NT machine, I can PING
and
> TELNET to the remote customer under DOS.  I can also PING and TELNET to
the
> remote customer via a session on our local hosting AS/400.  However, I
> _CANNOT_ seem to connect to the remote customer using _ANY_ settings under
> CAE.  Rumba (that we're replacing) on our old system is no problem.  The
old
> version of NetSoft on my laptop is no problem.  CAE _IS_ a problem.
>
> Can anyone help me here?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "Anyone who loves either the law or sausages should not take a close look
at
> how they are made" -- Bismarck
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