W1L1ops400.ppt1 Welcome! OPS400 students to the AS/400 Mid-Range Operating System

2 Who Am I? Andre Berns Over 35 Years of Industry Experience in system design and software development with Mainframes, Midrange and PC’s on LARGE, MID, MINI, MICRO size computers (AS/400 is the BEST!)

3 Intended Course Structure 2 hours of lecture Followed by 2 hours of labs The purpose of the lab is to practice what you learned in the lecture. It is the hands-on, practical side of the course. Attendance and completion of the labs will be a key factor in completing the course successfully.

4 Lecture and Lab Notes Lecture notes will be available from my Home Page. Some Labs will be available from my Home page or taken directly from the Text Book. Please print the lecture or lab notes, when found on the WEB pages, ahead of time and bring them to class.

5 Do you want to do well? Show up for Lectures Complete the Labs, MARKS! Do the assignments, a MUST! Do the required reading Do the Review questions and labs from your text book, they serve both to re-enforce and as practice Ask Lots of Questions both during lecture and labs

6 Material Covered All chapters in the text book. Two tests –All tests will be conducted in the labs –Both tests will include material from chapter 1 onward including all chapters covered up to that date.

7 Material Covered Cont’d Assignments (to be determined) –Progressive in nature and knowledge base. –Geared towards specific chapters. One Final Exam

8 What is the AS/400? IBM Midrange Computer What does midrange mean? In general, larger than a PC and smaller than a Mainframe!

9 Capability Comparison PC MidRange Main Frame

10 History System S/ S/ S/ S/ AS/ iSeries 2001 eSeries ……

11 Seneca Network (simplified) ODIN (AS/400) ZEUS (AS/400) (decommissioned) PHOBOS (RS/6000) Fire Wall PCs at Home PCs in the Lab

12 Connectivity Software Client Access (used here - selectively) Mocha (use from home) Software that allows you to connect your PC to the AS/400 using communications.

13 How To Download the Mocha Software to Your PC Use the ACS link Download As/400

14 What to do next In the labs we use –Client Access –Navigator –WDSc (Websphere Development Studio client) At Home –Install Mocha on your PC at home (if you have one)

15 What else to do next Read Chapter 1 of the text

16 Green Screen

17 AS/400 vs. Unix - Terminology reference Attributes Authorities Current library Command language programs Command line entry Database or IFS Device description Jobs Library library list’s Object Operations Navigator QSYS Subsystems User profile *USRPRF Properties Permissions Working directory Scripts Command line interface - CLI File system Device special files, /dev Processes / Tasks Directory Access path, $PATH Files Windowing system Root, / Shell /etc/profile,.profile AS/400Unix