Workstation Gateway Server

WSG Usage Hints

• With the exception of the character input fields, always use the mouse to click on the function key you want instead of using keyboard such as Enter or PF3.
• Different web browsers may have different display output when handling the same HTML tags. To improve the appearance of your 5250 application on the web client screen, you might want to try changing the character font and size.
• Never use previous and next page functions in web browsers as a way to jump into application flow from that page. We suggest turning off caching on the web client to enforce this suggestion.
• The action bar (top row of buttons) has a style button, which toggles the style used for the F1-F24 buttons. One mode shows displays F1-F24 as two rows of buttons at the bottom of every panel. This takes up more screen space, but has the advantage of letting your quickly submit the form.

  The other mode puts F1-F24 into a Function menu pull-down, next to the General menu pull-down. This makes submitting the F1-F24 keys a 2 step process (select menu item, then hit Enter), but has the advantage of less screen clutter and faster display by the browser.

• Special characters and code pages can be requested by each individual client. Translation is usually from EBCDIC CCSID of your AS/400 system to the ASCII CCSID specified in the CHGWSGA CCSID parameter. So, if the CHGWSGA CCSID parameter is changed, the EBCDIC CCSID default value also changes, since we get the "best fit" EBCDIC CCSID from the configured ASCII CCSID. This default can be overridden by each user. Examples for Sweden:

  http://hostname:5061/WSG-SWB
  http://hostname:5061/WSG-SWI
  http://hostname:5061/WSG-SFI
  

Agenda

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