OPS400 students

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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 development
• for Mainframes, Midrange and PCs
• 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 with Languages such as SL3 / 5 /
7 Micro code, Assembler, Cobol, RPG, FORTRAN,
Pascal, Basic Operating systems BBM
Microcode, B500, B700, Burroughs MCP, S/36,
S/38, OS/400 DEC PDP8, DOS, CP/M, MSDOS
Internal Data Representions OCTAL (DEC),
HEXIDECIMAL (IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell, Univac)
and BINARY (numerical control) Industries Soft
ware development, Retail, Wholesale
distribution, Manufacturing, Ware
housing Financial, 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 Contd

• 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
AS/400
Unix

• Attributes
• Authorities
• Current library
• Command language programs
• Command line entry
• Database or IFS
• Device description
• Jobs
• Library
• library lists
• 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

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Seneca Network (simplified)
ODIN (AS/400)
PHOBOS (RS/6000)
ZEUS (AS/400) (decommissioned)
PCs in the Lab
PCs at Home
Fire Wall
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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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ACS, SOFTWARE, MICROSOFT,
Mocha Telnet 230
Kb DOWNLOAD!!!
SAVE file mw5250.zip
Then UNZIP and install

Click on ACS - see Mohamed if further
instructions needed.