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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Novice AS400
> From: mbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, January 20, 2005 9:43 am
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Hi,
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> I have recently purchased a second hand AS400 do use as an
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> experimental development machine using Magic.
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> I am a complete novice when in comes to this machine and this is the
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> first time I had ever actually laid a hand on one.
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> Very exciting learning curve. I have poured over Red Books and the net
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> and slowly making headway. I suppose I should do a course but the cost would
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> be way out of my league. 
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> Anyway, 
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> I have come up against a problem and I am now at a loss.
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> The machine is a 170 / 2290 running V5R1.
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> After a lot of experimentation, reading, purchase of book (from the USA as I
> could not find on
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> here in Perth) etc I am stumped.
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> I am trying to get the Operations Navigator working. 
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> I have worked through numerous problems wit respect to TCP/IP, hosts just to
> be able to ping into
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> and out of the machine. Finally got all that working.
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> I initially was running QCTL and although I could ping in and out I could
> not get a screen displayed
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> when using Personal Communications AS/400 Client Access Express for Windows.
> Also, I could not
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> get a screen displayed when telneting into the machine.
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> I was suggest that I should try QBase instead of QCTL.. This solved the
> problem to a point.
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> I can now happily telnet into the machine and actually get a screen to work
> with.
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> I can use the client terminal Personal Communications AS/400 Client Access
> Express for Windows
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> and get a screen to work with and that all seems fine.
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> However, there is still a problem with the Operations Navigator.
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> If I Verify Connection. on the My Connections server name everything
> verifies ok.
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> But when I click on Management Central, it tries to connect but then gives
> the following error.
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> "Unable to complete the connection to central system
> "myservername.mydomainname.com.au"
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> I have MGTC started
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> I have the host file on the Win machine ok and host in the AS400 configured.
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> I can expand the server branch on the Operations Navigator tree but it only
> displays Basic Operations.
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> I don't suppose anyone might be able to suggest (speak slowly please step by
> step and assume I am a child ;- ) )
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> any ideas of what might be the problem and how to fix this please
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> Kind Regards
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> Mark Bailey
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> Cheers,
> Mark Bailey
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