LAN Distributed Platform (LANDP)

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.

• To get the Tutorials zip file, please contact landp@tw.ibm.com

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

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

• To get the Tutorials zip file, please contact landp@tw.ibm.com