Takes you through the steps necessary to start the ESAACT
enterprise server region, access the AACT application running on the region using the
Rumba+ Desktop emulator, initialize a VSAM file, and interact with the AACT application.
Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments only.
Start the ESAACT
enterprise server region
To start the server in
ESCWA:
- In
ESCWA, click
NATIVE.
- In the navigation pane, click
.
- Click
ESAACT.
- Click
.
- Click
START.
This opens the
Region Start Options dialog box.
- Click
START.
Alternatively, you can start the server from the IDE, from Server Explorer as follows:
- Right-click the
ESAACT server, and select
Start from the context menu.
Note: You might be prompted with an
Enterprise Server
Sign On dialog box, prompting you to provide connection details for the ESAACT server. This is a standard security dialog box. Click
OK without specifying any sign-on details. Also, if prompted to disable password recovery, click
No.
In the
Server Explorer, you can see that the icon for
ESAACT has changed to indicate that the region has started.
Start the
Rumba+ Desktop TN3270 Display
- In the
Server Explorer, right-click
ESAACT; then select
Show TN3270 Display..
This opens the
TN3270 Connection Properties dialog box. The fields should be set as follows:
- The
Name/address field must be set to 127.0.0.1.
- The
Telnet port field must be set to 9004.
- The
Terminal name field must be set to ESAACT.
Click
Connect to start the Rumba+ embedded TN3270 display and connect it to the ESAACT
enterprise server region using port
9004, which is the port you configured for the TN3270 listener.
Initialize the AACTFIL VSAM file
Before you can run the AACT transaction for the first time, you need to initialize the
AACTFIL VSAM file, in which the application stores data.
- On the
Rumba Mainframe Display, press
Ctrl+Shift+Z to clear the screen.
- Type
CFCR AACTFIL, and then press
Enter.
This loads the VSAM file.
- Press
Ctrl+Shift+Z to clear the screen.
Run the AACT transaction
- Start AACT
-
- Enter
AACT. The following shows the initial screen of our transaction:
As you can see from this screen, this transaction lets you display, add, delete, print, or modify information in the file.
- Add a record
- Follow these steps to add a record:
- Tab to the
REQUEST TYPE field and type
A.
- In the
ACCOUNT field, type
11111.
- Press
Enter.
- Complete the fields on the NEW RECORD screen as follows. Of the three ADDRESS fields, complete only the first two. Fields
not represented here are not mandatory so please skip over them.
SURNAME
|
Washington
|
FIRST
|
George
|
ADDRESS
|
Mt. Vernon
|
|
VA
|
NO. CARDS ISSUED
|
1
|
DATE ISSUED
|
070476
|
REASON
|
N
|
CARD CODE
|
1
|
APPROVED BY
|
ME
|
- Press
Enter.
- Retrieve a record
- Follow these steps to retrieve the record you just added:
- Tab to the
REQUEST TYPE field.
- Type
D to display a record.
- In the
ACCOUNT field, type
11111.
- Press
Enter. The following display shows the record retrieved from the file:
- Clear the screen of your TN3270 emulator to return to the main menu, then clear the screen again to exit the transaction.
- You can now stop the enterprise server: in Server Explorer, right-click the
ESAACT server, and click
Stop.
- Exit the transaction and the TN3270 session
-
- On the
Rumba Mainframe Display toolbar, click
Disconnect
.
- Close
the
Rumba Mainframe Display.
This concludes the tutorial.