Installation manual

Contents
About this book ...........v
Chapter 1. Introducing Host On-Demand 1
Why use Host On-Demand? .........2
A cost-effective approach .........2
Create new e-business applications ......2
Connect directly to any Telnet server .....2
Simple management of configuration data . . . 3
Windows integration ..........3
What’s new in Version 6.0 ..........3
More flexibility and control over locally stored
user preferences ............3
Deployment Wizard enhancements ......3
Native Windows print support .......4
Integrated Windows domain logon ......4
Customizable toolbar ..........4
Cached client support across the Internet ....4
Support for Java2-enabled browsers .....4
JVM 1.3 support on server .........4
Tab to next word and delete word ......4
Problem determination enhancements .....4
Copying sessions more easily ........5
User-defined character mapping editor for
double-byte character set (DBCS) environments. . 5
Basic support for GB18030 .........5
Chapter 2. Planning for Host
On-Demand.............7
Deployment strategy considerations ......7
Understanding the HTML-based model ....7
Understanding the configuration server-based
model ...............7
Understanding the combined model .....8
Otherdeploymentconsiderations......8
Before installing Host On-Demand .......8
Supported server operating systems ......10
Supported client operating systems ......10
Diskspacerequirements..........10
Supported browsers ...........11
Packaging ...............11
Chapter 3. Installing Host On-Demand 13
Installing the Host On-Demand server .....13
Installing on Windows NT and Windows 2000. . 13
Installing on OS/2 ...........16
Installing on Novell NetWare .......18
Installing on AIX ...........19
Installing on UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux) 21
Installing on OS/400 ..........23
Installing on z/OS ...........27
Installing the configuration servlet.......27
Chapter 4. Migrating from previous
versions of Host On-Demand .....29
Chapter 5. Removing Host On-Demand 31
Chapter 6. Using Host On-Demand with
a firewall ..............33
Chapter 7. Configuring Host
On-Demand overview ........35
Chapter 8. Loading the Host
On-Demand clients .........37
Host On-Demand clients ..........37
Administration clients ..........38
Cached clients ............39
Download clients ...........43
Function On-Demand client ........43
Database On-Demand clients .......44
Remove cached client ..........44
New user clients............44
Chapter 9. Security .........47
UsingSSL...............47
How SSL security works .........48
Certificates, encryption, and authentication . . . 49
Examples of when to use SSL security ....50
Using the Redirector ...........50
How the Redirector works ........50
Telnet-negotiated security..........51
Chapter 10. LDAP support ......53
Installing LDAP support ..........53
Installing the schema extensions .......53
Configuring LDAP support .........54
Chapter 11. Database On-Demand
overview ..............57
Chapter 12. National language support 61
Supported languages ...........61
Supported host code pages .........62
3270 and 5250 code pages ........62
VT code pages ............64
CICS Gateway code pages ........65
User-defined character mapping .......66
Appendix A. Locally installed clients 67
Operating systems that support the locally installed
client ................67
Installing Host On-Demand as a client .....67
Starting the client ............67
Removing the client ...........68
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