Default Connection for CAE Users
August 9, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Hey, Ted:
I thought you might be interested in a tip for assigning a connection for Operations Navigator (OpsNav) to a default user profile on Windows 2000 PCs.
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If you use the CWBCFG.exe command, which comes with Client Access Express, you can accomplish this task easily.
Without CWBCFG, each user would have to use the OpsNav connection wizard to establish a connection to an iSeries host.
Here is the syntax of CWBCFG:
CWBCFG [/host hostname] [/ipaddr address] [/view connect]
[/uid userid] [/r] [/s].
- The hostname is the iSeries connection name in Operations Navigator.
- The address is the IP address of the iSeries machine.
- The view parameter is obsolete and will be ignored if coded.
- The user ID may be a specific user profile name, special value *WINLOGON (use the Windows log on ID), or special value *PROMPTALWAYS (user is always prompted for user ID).
- The /r switch indicates that the new configuration should replace an existing configuration.
- The /s switch means that the configuration is for the .default user.
If you had an iSeries host in Kansas City, for example, you might use in a DOS window a command like this to establish a connection for all users:
cwbcfg /host kancity /ipaddr 12.34.56.7 /r /s
For more information, see the Configure a System Data Source using the ODBC administrator Web page at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/cwbcfg.htm .
— Anthony G. Schelling
Systems Engineer
JanoJustice Systems, Inc.
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