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®
AGILE
TM
5250 OPTIMA
Intelligent Protocol Converter
™
USER’S
MANUAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page xv Table of Contents Preface Copyright Information ................................................................................ ii Release Notes .............................................................................................. ii About AGILE ............................................................................................. iii Also From AGILE ...................................................................................... iv 5250 ALLY ....
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Page xvi AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference Selecting a Location ................................................................................. 1-3 Space Requirements .......................................................................... 1-3 Electrical Requirements .................................................................... 1-4 Operating Environment .................................................................... 1-4 Unpacking .......................................
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page xvii Configuring the Parallel In Alt Host Port .............................................. 1-27 Configuring a Serial Alt Host Port ........................................................ 1-28 Saving the Configuration ....................................................................... 1-31 Summary ................................................................................................ 1-31 Chapter 2 — Advanced Configuration Configuration Menu ...............
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Page xviii AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference Underlining Spaces ......................................................................... 2-16 Orientation ...................................................................................... 2-16 Paper Sources (Drawers) ................................................................ 2-19 Chapter 3 — Character Code Translation Overview .................................................................................................. 3
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page xix PFS Descriptions ...................................................................................... 4-6 INITIBM ........................................................................................... 4-6 INIT T1 ............................................................................................. 4-6 INIT T2 ............................................................................................. 4-7 INIT T3 .........................................
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Page xx AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference SUPSOFF ........................................................................................ 4-20 LOWQUAL..................................................................................... 4-21 MEDQUAL..................................................................................... 4-21 HIQUAL ......................................................................................... 4-21 SIMPLEX........................................
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page xxi PFS! Report ..................................................................................... 5-20 PORTFID! Report ........................................................................... 5-23 LANDFID! Report .......................................................................... 5-29 LOOP! Report ................................................................................. 5-35 Troubleshooting .............................................................
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Page xxii AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference Font Correspondences ........................................................................... A-11 Downloading Font Correspondences ............................................ A-11 Font Correspondence Limits.......................................................... A-14 Xerox Menu Options ............................................................................. A-14 The Xerox Menu .....................................................
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page xxiii Set GCGID Through GCID (SCG) .................................................B-14 Set FID Through GFID (FSG) ........................................................B-15 Begin Emphasis (BES) ...................................................................B-17 End Emphasis (EES) .......................................................................B-17 Release Left Margin (RLM) ...........................................................B-17 Set Indent Level (SIL)
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Appendix C — Pseudo Transparency Introduction ..............................................................................................C-1 i-data Pseudo Transparency .....................................................................C-1 MPI Pseudo Transparency .......................................................................C-2 Appendix D — OPTEDIT Overview ................................................................................................. D-1 Installing OPTEDIT ......
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Configuring the Output Ports ................................................................ D-17 Loading an Output Port Configuration .......................................... D-17 Saving an Output Port Configuration ............................................ D-19 Configuring the Parallel Output Port .................................................... D-19 Parallel Output Port Timing........................................................... D-19 Configuring Serial Ports for Output .......
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PREFACE Page i TM 5250 OPTIMA Intelligent Protocol Converter 5250 ™ OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference AGILE 875 Alfred Nobel Drive Hercules, CA 94547-1899 TEL (510) 724-1600 • TEL (800) 538-1634 • FAX (510) 724-9624 Customer Support: FAX (510) 724-2222 • E-MAIL tech@agileinc.com
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Page ii AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference Copyright Information ©1996 AGILE All rights reserved. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted. AGILE is a registered trademark of AGILE. 5250 OPTIMA and all other AGILE products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of AGILE. IBM and all IBM products mentioned in this publication are registered trademarks of Int
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PREFACE Page iii About AGILE In 1978 IBM and the word compatible were rarely found together, but IBMs mainframe customers wanted a less expensive, more flexible printing solution than IBM offered them. They wanted value, performance and features that only ASCII printers could provide. They wanted freedom of choice. This market need prompted Robert Torrey, then Director of Engineering for AGILE, to develop a bridge between popular ASCII printers and the IBM 3270 coax protocol that was a barr
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Page iv AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference Also From AGILE 5250 ALLY™ An intelligent protocol converter that enables an industry-standard parallel ASCII or EBCDIC printer to be attached to a System/3X or AS/400 midrange computer. Its alternate host feature allows the midrange host and a PC to share the printer without an A/B switch. 6287 ULTRA™ A full-featured protocol converter that enables a serial or parallel ASCII or EBCDIC printer or plotter to be attached to a 3270-type controlle
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PREFACE Page v AGILE Product Warranty Standard Warranty AGILE warrants to the original purchaser that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship and in good working order per the functional specifications current at the time of shipment for a period of two (2) years from the date of shipment to the purchaser. AGILE units that fail within the first thirty (30) days from the date of delivery will be treated as an Express Exchange Service (see Optional Warranties and Servic
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Page vi AGILE 5250 OPTIMA User’s Guide and Reference event shall AGILE be responsible for any loss of business, savings or profits, downtime or delay, labor repair or material costs, injury to person or property, or any similar or dissimilar consequential or inconsequential loss or damage resulting from this product, its use, or arising out of any breach of warranty, even if AGILE or an authorized AGILE dealer has been advised of the possibility of such damage, or for any claim by any other part
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PREFACE Page vii FCC Statement This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy. If it is not installed and used in strict accordance with AGILEs instructions, it may cause interference to radio and television reception. This equipment has been tested and complies with the limits for a Class A computing device in accordance with the specifications in Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such interference when operate
