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Welcome!OPS400 students

to the

AS/400 , iSeries

Mid-Range Operating System

Used for Commercial applications and as powerful servers.

Professors for this course

Mr. Andre Berns

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Who Am I? Andre Berns

Started in the computer industry in 1969 as a junior programmer

Did system design and software developmentfor Mainframes, Midrange and PC’s

on LARGE, MID, MINI, MICRO size computer platforms

Since 1989 on the AS/400

(AS/400 is the MOST reliable!)

At SENECA - languages and operating systems

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I have worked withLanguages such asSL3 / 5 / 7 Micro code, Assembler, Cobol, RPG, FORTRAN,

Pascal,Basic

Operating systems BBM Microcode, B500, B700, Burroughs MCP,S/36, S/38, OS/400DEC PDP8, DOS, CP/M, MSDOS

Internal Data RepresentionsOCTAL (DEC), HEXIDECIMAL (IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell, Univac) and BINARY (numerical control)

IndustriesSoftware development,Retail, Wholesale distribution,Manufacturing, Ware housingFinancial, Job Costing

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Course Structure• 2 hours of lecture• Followed by 2 hours of labs• The purpose of the labs is to enhance the text

book and provide you with actual practical problems as they occur in the industry.

• 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.

• Remember PRACTISE makes PERFECT

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Lecture and Lab Notes

• Lecture notes will be available afterwards from my web page

• No Labs will be available from the Web pages. You will be given or told where to retrieve them from at the beginning of the lab. All will have to be completed during the Lab.

• !! Each lab will have a “deliverable” associated with it, some of these will be evaluated for marks to be counted towards your final grade!!

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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 for practice

• Ask Lots of Questions both during lecture and labs

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Material Covered

• All chapters in the text book.

• One handout

• Two tests– The first test will be conducted in the lab– Both tests will include material from chapter 1

onward including all chapters covered up to that date.

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Material Covered Cont’d

• Assignments (to be determined)– Progressive in nature and knowledge base.– Geared towards specific chapters.

• Quick Quizzes

• One Final Exam

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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/400 Unix

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Seneca Network (simplified)

ODIN(AS/400)

ZEUS(AS/400)

(decommissioned)

PHOBOS(RS/6000)

FireWall

PCs atHome

PCs inthe Lab

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Connectivity Software

• Hummingbird (used here) (in the Labs)• Client Access (also used here - Check out CD)• Mocha (use from home - download)

Software that allows you to connect your PC to the AS/400 using communications.

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How To Download the Mocha Software to Your PC

• SENECA specific - retrieve from my web page

•Generic First go to Computer Studies

Home Page http://cs.senecac.on.ca

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Click on ACS - see Mohamed if further instructions needed.

ACS, SOFTWARE, MICROSOFT, Mocha Telnet 230 Kb DOWNLOAD!!! SAVE file mw5250.zip Then UNZIP and install