View over 80 columns? Use 2 monitors?
zoffic...@hotmail.com
given sufficient info regarding what program I'm running or other
pertinent info.
I'm referring to Iseries Workstation Program Version 5.8 for Windows
"display spooled file" (F10, J for my jobs, typing 5 by a spool file
entry to view it). This is the one you use F19 and F20 to scroll left
and right (or atop on the "Control" line, type W+15 to e.g. move 15
columns to the right).
I just got set up with two monitors and would like to see 160 columns.
How do y'all do that, or can you? Unlike many other apps, you can't
"stretch" this (resize the window) to be larger than a single screen
wide. So right now I'm lame-lame-lamely opening a session B and
viewing the same file (columns 81-160) on monitor 2 - but the displays
are not synchronized so I have to keep flipping back and forth and
work to keep them on the same row.
By the way, to those of you with 2 monitors, I recommend DisplayFusion
for spanning wallpaper. I then recommend 'great white.jpg' :)
Denny
Getting the 132 column screen is dependant on two things.
1. The emulatior software must support 132 column mode and be
configured to do so. With IBM Client Access from the Sign on screen,
click the Communicatin menu item and then change the display size to
27x132.
2. The AS/400 software must support 132 mode. The display spool file
does. SEU does. And that about it. For programs that do not support
132, you will see the same old 80 display.
Denny
On Wed, 7 May 2008 11:54:03 -0700 (PDT), zoffic...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
>
> I just got set up with two monitors and would like to see 160 columns.
You cannot do that.
Depending on "your" IBM subscription you may have WSDCi available to
you which is a PC program capable of accessing AS/400 resources.
If not, you can download a trial of the successor from
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdisoa/index.html
--
Thorbjørn
Pat Barber
End Session with Iseries commuications tab
Click on communications
Click on configuration
Click the button for 24x132
Click Save
Restart Session
or
Create a brand session and save that...
If you are unfamilar with Client Access, DO NOT
attempt the above without help or some reading.
zoffic...@hotmail.com
> communications / configuration / 27x132
This actually plays fantastically with 2 monitors. Upon doing this
setting, I can resize the window to approximately 1.5 monitor screens
wide. That causes a "natural font" as opposed to the unnatural skewed
appearance that 132-wide has on a single monitor. * And, as some
might logically expect, you can ONLY stretch to about 1.5 screens
wide. Why, since it's showing 1 through 130 (not 132, hmm) now, I'd
guess it's about 130/80 or 1.625 screens wide. :) *
* (All of the above are based on using the full monitor height for
display.)
So, gentlemen, start your budget requests (for monitor #2).
WTG, all. And especially thanks for the "gentle" extra level of
detail. I appreciate the effort.
Jonathan Bailey
If you can 'download' the spooled file to your pc, in client access
via iseries navigator just drag the splf to your pc desktop, then open
in eg notepad which you can stretch as far as you like. (If you use a
linux desktop you can stretch to more than the combined monitor sizes
& usually alt drag will drag the window without use of the titlebar)
Jonathan
Graybeard
Depending on the version of iSeries Access you are using, there is
usually this utility available.
C:\Program Files\IBM\Client Access\wrksplf.exe
zoffic...@hotmail.com
> If you can 'download' the spooled file to your pc, in client access
> via iseries navigator just drag the splf to your pc desktop, then open
> in eg notepad which you can stretch as far as you like. (If you use a
> linux desktop you can stretch to more than the combined monitor sizes
> & usually alt drag will drag the window without use of the titlebar)
In Navigator there is "Open" but not "Open With" and Open starts the
IBM viewer, which does show all, and is stretchable across 2 monitors.
(Graybeard, wrksplf exists and functions here, but it appears to be a
subset of Navigator, invoking the same viewer. Any other bonuses for
it vs. Navigator?) AAR there is Export there under right click of a
file, so that works to create a .TXT. (And elsewhere, Tom Liotta gave
me another solution that I enjoy, turning my session into a printer
and capturing to a text file.)
I detest the Navigator (IBM Viewer) interface because "Find" is so
pathetic. If I attempt to Find a string that's on page 3, it tells me
to Please Wait for all 9000 pages. Forget doing anything for 4
minutes. It won't even do that in the background, which at least
Acrobat does, so I prefer Acrobat to Navigator, because I often have
the same spool files available in .PDF. But both Navigator and
Acrobat SUCK - unless I'm just missing something - in that they search
from the TOP of the file, *every single time*, rather than from the
current file position. (Well, Acrobat will do "find again" from
current position if the search term in unchanged - Control-G.) The
upshot of all this is that for FINDing data in large files, the
ISeries (i.e. F10) interface works the best of the 3. At least, with
records under 132 columns :) ( And for really warp speed searching,
ISeries lets you limit the columns searched in F14 as you power users
already know.)
But I also like Navigator's exporting (or Liotta's print-to-terminal)
to .TXT, and that export is nice and fast. I can use Notepad or Word
and even Excel on the .TXT, and fully use the 2 monitors, and see the
entire records. So when I'm sufficiently motivated to simply start
Navigator and export and open Excel or Word or Notepad I'll do that,
and use the 130 column interface otherwise.
In each case I'm far more effectively equipped thanks to each of your
comments. Way to get 'er done.
Graybeard
subset of Navigator, invoking the same viewer. Any other bonuses for
it vs. Navigator? <<<<
No, except that you don't need to open Navigator to get to it. I
added it under "External Programs" in WDSc, where it is sometimes more
convenient than switching to green screen. I don't use it for large
reports.