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4 Click Next. The second page of the wizard appears.
5 Select the TN5250 Connection type from the pull-down menu. The dialog
changes appearance to show just the fields necessary for creating the 5250
connection.
6 In the Host or IP Address field, enter the physical address or alias for the
machine to which you are connecting. Your system administrator will
provide you with this information, which is defined in a separate host file.
7 In the Telnet Port field, enter the number of the port. The default port
number is 23.
8 In the Code Page field, specify a code page from the drop down list box
(See “About Code Page Support” on page -22).
9 The Screen wait (seconds) field, displays the amount of time in seconds that
a 5250 Terminal component will wait for the arrival of the next screen in the
Map Screen Action pane.
10 Enter a UserID and Password. These are not actually submitted to the host
during the establishment of a connection. They are simply defined here (the
password is encrypted). Right-mouse-click and choose Expression if you
want to make these fields expression-driven.
NOTE: After you’ve entered UserID and Password info in this dialog, the
ECMAScript global variables USERID and PASSWORD will point to these
values. You can then use these variables in expressions (or as described in
“5250 Specific Expression Builder Extensions” in Chapter 4.
