Rumba 8.1 System Administrator Guide Micro Focus (IP) Ltd. The Lawn 22-30 Old Bath Road Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN UK http://www.microfocus.com ␊ Copyright 2010 Micro Focus (IP) Limited. All Rights Reserved. ␊ MICRO FOCUS, the Micro Focus logo and RUMBA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Micro Focus (IP) 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. ␊ ␊ ii Contents Introduction ..........................................................................................................9 Conventions used in this guide .............................................................................................9 What is in this guide ..............................................................................................................9 Available documentation .....................................................................................................10 Rumba Features .................................................................................................12 Introducing Rumba ..............................................................................................................12 Product overview .................................................................................................................12 Rumba product listing .........................................................................................................12 Product Overview .....................................................................................................12 Individual application features ..................................................................................13 Rumba feature descriptions ................................................................................................14 New shared features ................................................................................................14 New AS/400 features ...............................................................................................15 New UNIX features ...................................................................................................15 Host-specific feature descriptions .......................................................................................15 Rumba Mainframe Edition ........................................................................................15 New AS/400 features ...............................................................................................17 Rumba UNIX-HP Edition ..........................................................................................17 Shared feature descriptions .....................................................................................19 Tools ...................................................................................................................................19 End-user productivity tools .......................................................................................20 Rumba software installation and maintenance .........................................................22 Developer tools ........................................................................................................23 Installing Rumba ................................................................................................24 Planning installation and deployment ..................................................................................24 Windows terminology ...............................................................................................24 Microsoft Installer service .........................................................................................25 Installing, modifying, repairing, and uninstalling Rumba software ......................................28 The installation process ............................................................................................28 Customizing Setup ..............................................................................................................31 How to customize Setup ...........................................................................................32 Transforms ...............................................................................................................32 Microsoft Installer command line arguments ............................................................32 Distributing Rumba with SMS .............................................................................................34 Uninstalling previous versions of Rumba .................................................................34 Contents | 3 Preparing client computers for Windows Installer ....................................................34 Creating a Rumba deployment package ..................................................................35 Advanced deployment issues ...................................................................................35 Transforms ..........................................................................................................................35 Rumba File Locations for Windows XP ...............................................................................36 Rumba File Locations for Windows 7 and Vista ..................................................................39 Introducing Rumba ............................................................................................42 Rumba features ...................................................................................................................42 Features summary ...................................................................................................42 Rumba folders .....................................................................................................................45 Using Rumba menus, toolbars, and the status bar .............................................................46 Customizing menus and toolbars .............................................................................46 Status bar .................................................................................................................46 Rumba Session Profiles ......................................................................................................48 About Session Profiles .............................................................................................49 Supplemental and interface configuration files .........................................................49 Migrating Session Profiles from previous Rumba versions ......................................50 Rumba Desktop Profiles .....................................................................................................50 About Desktop Profiles .............................................................................................50 Session Profile locations ..........................................................................................50 HP keyboard key codes ......................................................................................................51 Keys mapped to default settings ..............................................................................51 Keys used to send 7-bit control characters ..............................................................51 Codes sent by editing keys ......................................................................................52 Codes sent by arrow keys ........................................................................................53 Codes sent by numeric keypad keys ........................................................................53 VT keyboard key codes .......................................................................................................54 VT codes sent by top-row function keys ...................................................................54 VT keys used to send 7-bit control characters .........................................................55 VT codes sent by editing keys ..................................................................................56 VT codes sent by arrow key .....................................................................................56 VT codes sent by numeric keypad keys ...................................................................56 AS/400 Getting Connected ................................................................................58 Who should read this section ..............................................................................................58 When you need advanced configuration settings ...............................................................58 Making the connection ........................................................................................................58 Overview of connecting ............................................................................................58 Connecting to the host .............................................................................................59 Starting the connection process ...............................................................................59 4 | Contents Selecting an interface ...............................................................................................60 Configuring the interface ..........................................................................................61 Successful connection indicator ...............................................................................62