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Running the IMS Application

The IMS application requires that you use a 3270 terminal emulator. The installation of Enterprise Developer includes the Micro Focus Rumba emulator. Rumba is available as a standalone application, Rumba Desktop, and is also available as a TN3270 Mainframe Display embedded within the IDE. As part of this tutorial, you are going to use the embedded display to run the application.

Configuring the TN3270 Settings in the IDE

To check the IDE preferences and ensure that the embedded Rumba display is selected:

In the IDE, click Tools > Options.
Expand Micro Focus, and click TN3270 Display.
Ensure that Enable Display is checked and that the Rumba (Embedded) display option is selected.
Ensure that Connect automatically is checked.
Click OK.

Starting the Embedded Rumba Display

In Server Explorer, right-click IMSDEMO and click Mainframe TN3270 Display.
This opens the embedded Rumba display and establishes a 3270 terminal connection in Rumba to enable it to connect to the IMSDEMO enterprise server. You can see the login page of the IMSDEMO application.

Starting the Demonstration Application

On the IMS sign-on screen, specify a user ID and password, and then press Enter.
If you have not configured Enterprise Server security, you can use the user SYSAD with password SYSAD.
Clear the screen of your terminal emulator - in the embedded Rumba display, press CTRL+SHIFT+Z.
Enter MFDEMO (with a trailing space).
The following sections describe the demonstration program and how you navigate through its screens.

IMS demonstration Screen Entries

For the screens that follow, enter the options and text that is displayed in green.

Note: Each table you add must have a unique table ID.

The "Add Testdept Table" screen in transaction MFDEMO:

Add table in the IMS application

Press Enter when you have finished entering data on a screen.

On the screens that follow press Tab to move to the next field. Press Shift+Tab to move to the previous field.

The "Add Testept Elements" screen:

Add Testept Elements

The "Change Testdept Table" Screen:

Change Testdept Table

The "Change Testdept Elements" Screen:

Change Testdept Elements

The "Add Testers Table" screen:

Add Testers Table

The "Add Testers Elements" screen:

Add Testers Elements

The "End Transaction" screen:

End Transaction

The "MFDEMO - ENDED" screen:

MFDEMO - ENDED

Note: If, instead of using the embedded Rumba display, you are using Rumba Desktop to run this demonstration, note the following configuration details:

Start your TN3270 emulator.

Specify the following connection information.

Note that field names could vary depending on the 3270 emulator you are using.

Field	Value
Host name	The dnsname or TCP/IP @ of the computer the enterprise server is running on. This is localhost on your machine.
Port	The port number you specified for the 3270 listener when creating the IMS-enabled enterprise server. On versions of Windows Vista and later, if you experience issues connecting to localhost, connect to 127.0.0.1 instead.

Connect.