Loading emulator clients


	Host On-Demand provides a sample HTML file of ready-to-use 3270, 5250, VT, and FTP emulator sessions pre-configured with download client and Java auto-detection components. These sessions use the HTML-based configuration model and are provided to allow you to get Host On-Demand up and running and access your host systems quickly. For more information, refer to Configuring Host On-Demand emulator clients.

To load a Host On-Demand emulator client, a user starts a Web browser and enters in the Address field the URL of a Host On-Demand HTML file. The Host On-Demand HTML file must be one of the following:

An HTML file that you create with the Deployment Wizard.
One of several generic predefined HTML files included with Host On-Demand

IBM recommends the first option. For more information on the Deployment Wizard, see Deployment Wizard. For more information on the generic predefined HTML files, see Predefined emulator clients.


	If your emulator client is deployed with the configuration server-based or combined deployment model, you need to add users and configure sessions with the administration client before you can use the emulator client.

To launch HTML files generated by the Deployment Wizard, specify the full URL of the HTML file in your browser:

http://server_name/hod_alias/client_name.html

where server_name is the host name or IP address of the Host On-Demand server, hod_alias is the alias (or path) of the publish directory, and client_name is the HTML file name of the client. For example, if you created an HTML file in the Deployment Wizard called 3270sessions.html, you can load it by specifying a URL such as the following:

http://host.yourcompany.com/hod/3270sessions.html

To launch a predefined HTML file included with Host On-Demand, point your browser to HODMain_xx.html file, where xx is your two-letter language suffix, to view links to all the available predefined clients. HODMain_xx.html is located in the publish directory.

When you access a client, a security warning appears to notify you that Host On-Demand was created by International Business Machines. Users must grant Java security privileges for this session or any future sessions by clicking the appropriate buttons in order for Host On-Demand to work properly.

Note:

Pop-up blockers might prevent the Java security windows and other response windows from appearing.