Micro Focus Rumba 9.5: System Administrator Guide
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Rumba+ 9.5 System Administrator Guide Micro Focus The Lawn 22-30 Old Bath Road Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN UK http://www.microfocus.com Copyright © Micro Focus 1984-2017. All rights reserved. MICRO FOCUS, the Micro Focus logo and Rumba are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro Focus IP Development Limited or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 2017-02-14 ii Contents About This Guide ............................................................................................... 8 Conventions used in this guide ........................................................................................... 8 How this guide is organized ................................................................................................ 8 Available documentation ..................................................................................................... 9 Introducing Rumba .......................................................................................... 10 About Rumba .................................................................................................................... 10 Rumba products ................................................................................................................10 Rumba applications ...........................................................................................................11 New Rumba features .........................................................................................................11 Host-specific features ........................................................................................................12 Mainframe features .................................................................................................12 AS/400 features ......................................................................................................13 UNIX and HP features ............................................................................................14 Core features .................................................................................................................... 15 Multiple HLLAPI sessions .......................................................................................16 Enhanced security through SSL/SSH .................................................................... 16 Certificate Express Logon ...................................................................................... 16 Host sessions ......................................................................................................... 16 Rumba printer .........................................................................................................16 Copy and paste ...................................................................................................... 16 File transfer .............................................................................................................16 User interface ......................................................................................................... 17 Screen displays ...................................................................................................... 17 International keyboards .......................................................................................... 17 Supported VT features ........................................................................................... 18 Supported HP features ...........................................................................................18 Automating your work .............................................................................................18 Rumba tools ...................................................................................................................... 19 Productivity tools .................................................................................................... 19 Configuration and maintenance ............................................................................. 21 Developer tools .......................................................................................................22 Planning installation and deployment ............................................................23 Windows terminology ........................................................................................................23 Windows Installer service ..................................................................................................23 Supported operating systems ........................................................................................... 24 Software requirements ...................................................................................................... 24 Hardware requirements .....................................................................................................24 Things to consider before installation ................................................................................24 Deployment strategies ............................................................................................25 Migration issues and directory locations ................................................................ 25 Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) 2000 Server and Client ............................25 Changes to Rumba components .......................................................................................25 Installing Rumba .............................................................................................. 27 The installation process .................................................................................................... 27 Default path of user profile ..................................................................................... 27 Using the Setup wizard .......................................................................................... 27 Using the command line .........................................................................................28 Rolling back an installation .....................................................................................30 Modifying Rumba ................................................................................................... 31 Repairing Rumba ................................................................................................... 31 Contents | 3 Removing Rumba ...................................................................................................31 Customizing Setup ............................................................................................................ 32 Using transforms .................................................................................................... 32 Windows Installer command line arguments .....................................................................34 Distributing Rumba with SCCM .........................................................................................36 Uninstalling previous versions of Rumba ............................................................... 36 Preparing client computers for Windows Installer .................................................. 36 Creating a Rumba deployment package ................................................................ 37 Advanced deployment issues .................................................................................37 Distributing Rumba with the MSS ..................................................................................... 37 Rumba file locations ..........................................................................................................38 Using Rumba .................................................................................................... 41 Starting a session from the command line ........................................................................41 Rumba folders ...................................................................................................................42 Using Rumba menus, toolbars, and the status bar ........................................................... 42 Enabling and disabling global commands .............................................................. 42 Customizing menus and toolbars ........................................................................... 43 Mainframe status bar ..............................................................................................43 AS/400 status bar ...................................................................................................43 HP status bar ..........................................................................................................44 UNIX status bar ...................................................................................................... 44 Rumba session profiles .....................................................................................................45 About session profiles ............................................................................................ 45 Supplemental and interface configuration files .......................................................45 Migrating session profiles from Rumba 6.x or 7.x .................................................. 46 Rumba desktop profiles .................................................................................................... 46 About desktop profiles ............................................................................................46