Sep 27 2015
IBM i Client Access – also called Client Access for iSeries – is Windows traditional heavy client to connect to AS400 platforms. While upgrading Client Access, I get a language version mismatch error some time to time. The primary language version Mri2924 that is currently installed does not match the language version MRI2924 to which […]
May 26 2015
You may need to launch AS400 sessions at boot for various reasons such as automated scripts or print sessions. Here are a few pitfalls you may encounter. First of all, sessions wouldn’t launch without pcsws.exe extra parameters /H – for Hidden – and eventually /Q – to hide the IBM popup window. pcsws.exe options are […]
May 23 2015
IBM i can communicate with a Windows printer share using the LDP Unix protocol. This is so much better than a Client Access printer session since it relies on a simple share and a Windows service. There is no need to start a session manually. On Windows On the Windows server, open server manager, add […]
Apr 19 2015
Client Access can be deployed by GPO with the MSI file provided in the installation directory. However you will have to create a MST file containing custom parameters that will add up to the MSI. Create a Transform file The transform file contains customized settings you may apply to the software you are going to […]
Jan 18 2011
You can open any kind of document on Windows from an IBM i 5250 session or a CL program.The type of file can either be an image or a picture (jpeg, tiff, bmp, png), a video (avi, mpeg), a PDF, an office document (word, excel, powerpoint), and even an Internet link (URL). AS400 provides the strpccmd […]