Technical detail
Welcome to the LAN Distributed Platform Practical Tutorials download page.
The Tutorials are designed to help you get the most of the LANDP environment. They gradually evolve from a beginners to an advanced perspective, so whatever your previous experience of LANDP, you are sure to find the tutorials challenging, and learn from doing them.
This set of Practical Tutorials has been put together by the LANDP Team.
Topics
Learn how to:
Install and Configure LANDP
Store data locally using LANDP's database Support
Share and drive IBM's PIN Pad Devices
Share and drive Financial Printers
Share and drive IBM's Magnetic Stripe Reader/Encoder
Keep an audit trail using LANDP's Electronic Journal Support
Provide off-line transaction processing using LANDP Store-for-Forward
Use the LANDP Java Wrappers: Java Supervisor, Java Shared File, Java Electronic Journal and Java SNA.
Use Rapid Application Development (RAD) with the LANDP Java Beans.
Use both the NetBIOS and the TCP/IP transports within the same workgroup
Link LANDP workgroups over the TCP/IP network
Understand the relationship between the the log file and the data files.
Find and correct invalid data using the search functions, Check the status of a file, Request Statistic information, Hold and erase the entire contents of a file.
Back up and restore processes and what can happen when various files are missing because they were not backed up
Connect to a Remote Database Management System (RDBMS) using LANDP and how to connect to and update a database using SQL.
Perform some basic printing operations as well as LANDP's more advanced printing capabilities
Format
All the tutorials share the same format, conceived to make your navigation easier:
Direct links to the IBM and LANDP websites from the top banner
Tutorials Menu bar always visible on the left of the page
Common page layout, including the main section headers
Product screenshots
Direct links to the LANDP Installation and Customisation Version 6.0 manual throughout
Links to the Introduction / Index page from the bottom banner
