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AS/400 IBM Network Station: Techniques for Deployment in a WAN
from the database, you must have IBM DB2 Query Manager and SQL
Development Kit for AS/400 installed.
1.2.14 Full-Screen (Kiosk) Solutions Support
In specific environments, you may want the IBM Network Station, after power
is turned, to automatically start up a particular application like 5250 or 3270
emulation without requiring the entry of a user ID and password on the login
display. For example, a public library may want to limit and simplify the user
interface by allowing a user access to only a library book search application
from the IBM Network Station. Another common environment where
full-screen support can be useful is in a shopping mall kiosk.
Although a full-screen solution was feasible with the prior release of IBM
Network Station Manager, it required you to hand edit a number of files and
the login/authentication was bypassed rather than hidden or suppressed.
Release 3 of IBM Network Station Manager allows you to
suppress the login
and provides an easier implementation because the Network Station
Manager program is primarily used.
Essentially, this solution involves the creation of a special kiosk user ID for
each particular appearance of a full-screen application. The following
full-screen solution applications are supported:
• 5250 Emulator
• 3270 Emulator
• PC desktop
• Unix Common Desktop Environment
• NC Navigator
In addition, these special kiosk user IDs, passwords and the associated IBM
Network Stations IP addresses or names must be placed in an encoded kiosk
user ID file on the server. As a result, when those specified IBM Network
Stations are powered on, the login display is suppressed and the preferences
of the corresponding kiosk user ID are used to automatically bring up the
appropriate full-screen desktop.
Note
If you decide to use the new separation of servers function, the hardware
inventory server must run on the server providing the Terminal
Configuration server function.