Welcome!
OPS400 students
to the
AS/400 , iSeries
Mid-Range Operating System
Used for Commercial applications and as
powerful servers.
Professors for this course
Mr. Andre Berns
L1C1introops400.ppt
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Who Am I?
Andre Berns
Started in the computer industry in 1969 as a
junior programmer
Did system design and software development
for Mainframes, Midrange and PC’s
on LARGE, MID, MINI, MICRO size computer
platforms
Since 1989 on the AS/400
(AS/400 is the MOST reliable!)
At SENECA - languages and operating systems
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I have worked with
Languages such as
SL3 / 5 / 7 Micro code, Assembler, Cobol, RPG, FORTRAN, Pascal,
Basic
Operating systems
BBM Microcode, B500, B700, Burroughs MCP,
S/36, S/38, OS/400
DEC PDP8,
DOS, CP/M, MSDOS
Internal Data Representions
OCTAL (DEC), HEXIDECIMAL (IBM, Burroughs, Honeywell,
Univac) and BINARY (numerical control)
Industries
Software development,
Retail, Wholesale distribution,
Manufacturing, Ware housing
Financial, Job Costing
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Course Structure
• 2 hours of lecture
• Followed by 2 hours of labs
• The purpose of the labs is to enhance the text
book and provide you with actual practical
problems as they occur in the industry.
• It is the hands-on, practical side of the
course. Attendance and completion of the
labs will be a key factor in completing the
course successfully.
• Remember PRACTISE makes PERFECT
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Lecture and Lab Notes
• Lecture notes will be available afterwards
from my web page
• No Labs will be available from the Web
pages. You will be given or told where to
retrieve them from at the beginning of the lab.
All will have to be completed during the Lab.
• !! Each lab will have a “deliverable”
associated with it, some of these will be
evaluated for marks to be counted towards
your final grade!!
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Do you want to do well?
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Show up for Lectures
Complete the Labs, MARKS!
Do the assignments, a MUST!
Do the required reading
Do the Review questions and labs from
your text book, they serve both to reenforce and for practice
• Ask Lots of Questions both during
lecture and labs
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Material Covered
• All chapters in the text book.
• One handout
• Two tests
– The first test will be conducted in the lab
– Both tests will include material from chapter 1
onward including all chapters covered up to
that date.
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Material Covered Cont’d
• Assignments (to be determined)
– Progressive in nature and knowledge base.
– Geared towards specific chapters.
• Quick Quizzes
• One Final Exam
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AS/400 vs. Unix - Terminology reference
AS/400
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Attributes
Authorities
Current library
Command language programs
Command line entry
Database or IFS
Device description
Jobs
Library
library list’s
Object
Operations Navigator
QSYS
Subsystems
User profile *USRPRF
Unix
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Properties
Permissions
Working directory
Scripts
Command line interface - CLI
File system
Device special files, /dev
Processes / Tasks
Directory
Access path, $PATH
Files
Windowing system
Root, /
Shell
/etc/profile, .profile
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Seneca Network (simplified)
PHOBOS
(RS/6000)
ODIN
(AS/400)
ZEUS
(AS/400)
(decommissioned)
PCs in
the Lab
Fire
Wall
PCs at
Home
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Connectivity Software
• Hummingbird (used here) (in the Labs)
• Client Access (also used here - Check out CD)
• Mocha (use from home - download)
Software that allows you to connect your PC to the
AS/400 using communications.
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How To Download the Mocha
Software to Your PC
• SENECA specific
- retrieve from my web page
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First go to Computer Studies
Home Page http://cs.senecac.on.ca
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ACS,
SOFTWARE,
MICROSOFT,
Mocha Telnet
230 Kb DOWNLOAD!!!
SAVE file mw5250.zip
Then UNZIP and install
Click on ACS - see Mohamed if further
instructions needed.
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