Zend Server 5250 Bridge Settings

The 5250 Bridge Settings page is accessed from Server Setup | 5250 Bridge Settings.

The 5250 Bridge Settings page enables you to configure your settings for smooth integration with other current user settings; for instance, language settings and characters, connection type and performance, server time-out, and print screen as XML.

The 5250 Bridge Settings tab includes the following windows:

• Zend 5250 Bridge
• Zend 5250 Bridge Configuration

Zend 5250 Bridge

Click the Start service link to begin the service

Note:

The same function can be invoked from the 5250 Bridge Management Menu (option 7 in the Zend Server Service Menu).

Zend 5250 Bridge Configuration

The Zend 5250 Bridge Configuration window enables you to integrate with your current user settings:

• I/OS EBCDIC Character Code Page (CCSID) - The values are: English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. This setting allows to view  5250 screen special characters in a browser  
• Persistent Connection - Define the connection type between the 5250 Bridge and your System i server. Click, Yes for a persistent connection and No for the connection to be terminated once the script has run. Persistent connections allow to increase 5250 Bridge server connection-time performance. For more detailed information on persistent connections to i5-pconnect see the PHP Toolkit section.
• Server Time-Out (in microseconds) - The time to wait for a connection to the IBM i server before timing-out. Decreasing the server timer-out allows to increase PHP script overall performance using the 5250 Bridge API. This setting can be set to 0 for V5R4.
• Print Screen Image as XML - This can be used by developers to debug their applications by providing an XML version of the 5250 screen image. Clicking Yes, will add an additional field for you to specify a path for saving the file containing screen image information in XML format.

After changing the settings, click Save to apply changes.