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Configure Connection Settings Dialog Box

How do I get to this dialog box?

  1. Open the Settings window.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon or Reflection Browser With a session open in Reflection, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
    TouchUx Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings.

  2. Under Host Connection, select Configure Connection Settings.

From this dialog box, you can specify the settings for a TN3270 connection.

Connection

Setting Description
Host name/IP address Identify the host to which you will connect. Type the host name, alias, or numeric IP address.

Note: Both IPv4 addresses (in the form 127.0.0.1) and IPv6 addresses (in the form 2001:0db8:3c4d:0015:0000:0000:abcd:ef12) are accepted.
Port Type the host port or socket number that the session should use. This field accepts any number between 0 and 66,535 (default = 23).
Use ID Management Configure the session to use ID management. ID Manager, optionally installed with your centralized management server, configures and monitors a pool of resource IDs that a client can use to establish a host session, thereby eliminating the need for administrators to create configurations for every client. Depending on the type of terminal or printer, these resource IDs may represent addresses or identifiers as required.You can use ID Manager with the IBM3270 and IBM5250 terminals and printers.To use ID Manager, you'll need access to a centralized management server with ID Manager configured. For detailed instructions that show how to set up ID Management, see "Set Up ID Management for Reflection Desktop Sessions" in the Reflection Deployment Guide.

See the additional options when using ID management below:

- Reflection ID Management Server URL The complete URL for the ID Management server. For example, http://server.name/tidm, where tidm is typically case sensitive, but server.name is not.

- ID Selection Criteria The parameters required by the ID Manager server to allocate an ID, such as a pool name.
Device name Specify a particular LU or pool of LUs (up to 32 characters) on the host. If no device name is entered, the server connects to any available LU at the specified port.
Security Settings Secure data communications with SOCKS or SSL/TLS.
ELF application ID Specify the application ID to use the IBM Express Logon Feature (ELF). This feature allows you to connect and logon without entering a user ID and password.

To enable this feature, click Security Settings, then select Use SSL/TLS Security. This feature also requires that you configure the host, install certificates (if necessary) on user computers, and create a connect macro. See Connect 3270 Sessions using the Express Logon Feature.

Host Connection Options

Setting Description
Use Telnet Extended If selected, enables TN3270E protocols when supported.
Automatically connect to the host Select to establish a host connection as soon as the associated session document is opened.
When connection is terminated Specify options for reconnecting after any disconnection that is not initiated from Reflection.

Options:

- Reconnect automatically: specifies to attempt to reestablish the connection.

- Prompt for reconnection: specifies to prompt whether to attempt to reestablish the connection. (When No is selected, the session is left open and disconnected.)

- Leave disconnected specifies to leave the session disconnected with the session open.

- Close session automatically specifies to close the session.

Text Display

Setting Description
Terminal/Device type Specify the model of the terminal or device type emulated by this session.

You can select a value from the drop-down box, or type a value that is not listed. This allows you to specify a terminal model that is not implicitly supported but might work, such as Fujitsu.

In most cases you should leave this setting at the default value. If you choose any other value, be sure to use a string that is acceptable to the host; otherwise, you may experience problems connecting to the host, and emulation problems after connecting to the host. Typically, these types of problems occur if the host is not configured to recognize the terminal specified.
Model ID Specify the model of the terminal or device type emulated by this session.

If the string specified in Terminal/Device type includes &M, the &M is replaced with the model number from this list when the string is sent to the host. For example, if IBM-3279-&M is specified and Model 3 is selected here, the string sent to the host is IBM-3279-3.

Selecting an Extended model allows the host to specify a greater number of colors (seven instead of four) and a wider variety of display attributes. Any Model allows the gateway or mainframe to determine which model ID to use. Each model is associated with a terminal window display of a specific size (e.g., 24 rows by 80 columns). To specify a different number of rows or columns, select <Custom Model Extended>. When Model ID is set to <Custom Model Extended>, Terminal/Device type changes to IBM-DYNAMIC. The default value is Model 2 24x80 Extended.
Rows This option is available when Custom Model Extended is selected in the Model ID box. It specifies the number of rows to use in the terminal window display. The valid range is 24 - 255. If the host application specifies a particular screen size, this value may be ignored.
Columns This option is available when Custom Model Extended is selected in the Model ID box. It specifies the number of columns to use in the terminal window display. The valid range is 80 - 255. If the host application specifies a particular screen size, this value may be ignored.

Graphics Display

Setting Description
Enable graphics When selected, enables this session to emulate a graphics terminal. This allows you to run any host application that uses the IBM Graphics Data Display Manager (GDDM) library, such as SAS or ImageView.
Model ID When Enable graphics is selected, specifies the type of graphics terminal emulated by this session.

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