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exteNd Composer

T27 Connect

5.0

January 2004

Welcome to Novell^® exteNd Composer^TM T27 Connect Version 5.0. These release notes include the following sections:

What is New	Introducing exteNd Composer T27 Connect v5.0
Installation notes	Important information about enabling exteNd Composer T27 Connect
Software and hardware requirements	Software and hardware needed to run exteNd Composer T27 Connect
Features	Features in this release of exteNd Composer T27 Connect
Known issues	Known issues with this release of exteNd Composer T27 Connect

What is New

New Connectivity for Unisys T27 Applications

exteNd Composer T27 Connect is introduced with exteNd Composer 5.0. exteNd Composer T27 Connect provides access to applications on Unisys Clearpath NX Series (a.ka. A Series) mainframes and works with many major Unisys applications including LINC and MARC.

Installation notes

As of extend 5 Composer Enterprise Edition 5.0, the Composer Connectors are no longer installed separately. To make installation easier, the Composer Connectors are automatically installed when extend 5 Composer Enterprise Edition 5.0 is installed.

Evaluation licenses are provided for each of the Composer solutions. The evaluation licenses expire 90 days after installation.

Within the Composer designer, you can enable any of the Composer solutions using the Systems Information dialog’s Licenses tab. Navigate to the System Information dialog from the Help / About exteNd Composer menu item. Press the System button and click the Licenses tab.

To enable a Composer solution, simply click its associated ‘Enabled’ checkbox and press OK.

Note: When enabling a Composer Connector, you need to enable each of the Connector’s components. For example, if you want to enable T27 Connect, you need to click the Enabled checkbox associated with T27 and T27logon and press OK.

When you purchase a full license for a solution, you may edit the solution’s license by clicking the Edit… button and entering the full license.

The same is true on the server side and a console dialog is provided for enabling Composer solutions and editing license keys.

If you experience problems with the installation of T27 Connect, contact Novell technical support for manual installation steps.

Software and hardware minimum requirements

There are no additional hardware or 3^rd party software requirements to install or use any Composer Connector with exteNd Composer. Please see the hardware and software requirements included with both exteNd Composer Server and Developer.

Composer Connectors are engineered to work in conjunction with your exteNd Composer core products and are compatible with the same major version of the core products (e.g. exteNd Composer v5.0).

Tutorial

There is no tutorial sent with the T27 Connect. Since every environment is unique, the process for setting up the connections may vary. You can deploy the T27 components in the same manner that you do XML Map and JDBC components. Refer to the exteNd Composer tutorial.

Features in exteNd Composer T27 Connect

The following is a brief description of the feature set provided by exteNd Composer T27 Connect. For a more detailed look at the features and functionality please read the exteNd Composer T27 Connect User Guide provided with the software and on the CD-ROM.

The T27 Connect is a separately installable product that integrates directly with your existing exteNd Composer installation and provides you with the ability to integrate your business applications running through T27 browser type interfaces to your integration projects.

In addition to the features listed below the T27 Connect inherits all the functionality of the exteNd Composer XML Mapping Component Editor. Please see the exteNd Composer Users Guide for more information.

Connectivity –- T27 Connect allows the user to XML-enable T27 applications

o Creates connections to T27 sites through TCP/IP

o Supports both Host Names and IP Addresses

o Allows user to enter a terminal port

o Supports Constant and Expression Driven Connections

o Supports Logon Components and Logon Connections to optimize connectivity for T27 Components

o Supports Server side connection pooling utilizing the Logon Components and Connections

o exteNd Composer Server T27 console is used to release and view connection status

Visual Integration – Provides a T27 terminal emulator view of the application you are integrating.

o Built-in T27 terminal emulator is displayed in the Native Environment Pane

o Introduces new T27 Actions

o Check Screen – Waits for the screen to be ready

o Send Key – Sends the T27 special terminal keys

· Clear Home

· Forms Mode, Toggle

· Local

· Next Page

· Previous Page

· Receive

· Specify

· Transmit

o Set Screen Text – Sets Screen text to a specified constant or expression result

o Supports Drag & Drop between the T27 Application and DOMs

o Provides a T27 keyboard dialog window

Advanced Processes – Provides the ability to perform complex manipulations of screen information.

o Stop and restart the recording of the business processes being mapped

o Animate the built components for testing and debugging

Known issues

This release has the following known issues (workarounds are specified if known):

Console on WebSphere

o T27 Logon Connection Resource appears to be hard coded to use the 'GemTestLogicDefault' Logon Component. After creating a Logon Connection that uses any Logon Component, you will receive this error:

Exception messages:

1 dt009102:Connection failed

2 Nested Message: rtUNISYS000806:Connection via GemTestLogicDefault timed out. 0 created connection(s) at this moment were busy and 3 connection(s) discarded.

Root exception stack trace:

com.sssw.b2b.ee.unisys.rt.GNVUnisysException: Connection via GemTestLogicDefault timed out. 0 created connection(s) at this moment were busy and 3 connection(s) discarded.

o If you deploy exteNd Composer service components to more than one WebSphere application server you will need to copy the exteNd Composer consoles for 3270 Connect, 5250 Connect, Telnet Connect, Data General Connect, HP 30000 Connect, Tandem Connect, T27 Connect and SAP Connect to each application server. This will allow you to monitor the various exteNd Composer Connector connection pools for the specific application servers.

Instructions which describe how to copy these exteNd Composer Consoles are available for from the exteNd Composer Product Download section on www.Novell.com. Also included in this download is a new file called exteNdComposerConsoles.ear, which is required.

Animation

o The STOP button does not work during run to the end animation. When running to a break point, first press Pause to stop the animator then press STOP.

Other

o When using the Pre-initialize Pool feature, if the user is using a connection from a sub-project, the connection name that should be used is the original and not the shared connection name. (i.e. TutorialEnd:InventorySystem.xml vs. InventorySystem.xml)