Product Information

The Personal Communications documentation is available on the installation image. You can copy any of these PDF or HTML files to your workstation, for viewing at your convenience.

Readme-Please!

The Readme file includes recent updates to the documentation or other information that might be of special interest.

Manuals

To view the Personal Communications documentation using Install Manager, select View Documentation from the main panel of the Install Manager on the installation image. Clicking View Documentation invokes Adobe Acrobat Reader from your system to view the books. If Acrobat Reader is not detected on your system, you are given the opportunity to install it at this time. After installation of Acrobat Reader is complete, a window opens displaying the books available on the installation image.

Note:

You can also copy the book files from the installation image to a local or network drive to view at a later time.

The HTML form of Quick Beginnings is installed automatically.

You can view the PDF forms of Quick Beginnings and the other books directly from the installation image. You may also copy the Adobe Acrobat PDF files to a specific directory on your workstation, for later viewing. All available language versions of the documents are in the following directory:X:\program files\Ibm\Pcomm\language\doc, where X is your installation image drive letter and language is your specific language code. Not all books are available in all languages. The English versions of the documents are in the following directory:X:\program files\Ibm\Pcomm\en_us\doc.

Refer to Installation Guide for your individual language code and specific information about installation of documents and Adobe Acrobat.

Quick Beginnings

This book describes how to install, configure, and start Personal Communications.

Emulator User's Reference

This book contains specific 3270, 5250, and VT emulator information for users of Personal Communications.

Administrator's Guide and Reference

This book contains advanced configuration, national language support, SNA, and AnyNet® information, and PDT information for administrators of Personal Communications.

Emulator Programming

This book provides necessary programming information for you to use the IBM® Personal Communications Emulator High-Level Language Application Program Interface (EHLLAPI), Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE), Personal Communications API (PCSAPI), and Server-Requester Programming Interface (SRPI).

Client/Server Communications Programming

This book describes support for the APPC and LUA application programming interfaces (APIs).

System Management Programming

This book describes how to use the Node Operations Facility (NOF) application programming interface (API).

CM Mouse Support User's Guide and Reference

This book describes how to use the CM Mouse interface.

Configuration File Reference

This book describes how to edit and verify configuration data using an ASCII editor.

Host Access Class Library

This book provides a core set of classes that allow the development of platform-independent applications that can access host information at the data stream level.

In addition to the printed books, the following online publications are included:

Host Access Class Library for Java

This HTML document describes how to write an ActiveX/OLE 2.0–compliant application to use Personal Communications as an embedded object.

Host Access Beans for Java

This HTML document describes Personal Communications emulator functions delivered as a set of Java™ Beans.