Using EXTRA! for Accessory Manager
EXTRA! for Accessory Manager is a suite of terminal emulators (3270, 5250, and VT) and non-INFOConnect connection tools that let your PC communicate with an IBM mainframe, A/S 400, or DEC host. EXTRA! for Accessory Manager is a stand-alone application that exists in a separate folder. You can run this application by itself, or you can create and open EXTRA! sessions within Accessory Manager.
To use EXTRA! sessions within Accessory Manager, you must keep both applications installed. When you open an EXTRA! session within Accessory Manager, the session still requires files from the INFOCNEE\EXTRA folder in order to run.
Limitations of EXTRA! for Accessory Manager
Although you can create and open EXTRA! sessions within Accessory Manager and perform most of the functions that you can with any other emulator, there are some limitations:
- Any keyboard maps, QuickPads, toolbars, or schemes located in the remote folder (as specified on the Global Preferences dialog box) are not copied. To use any of these files, you must copy them manually to the Infocnee\Accmgr32 folder or whatever folder is specified as the local or remote folder on the Global Preferences dialog box.
- When you display the Open Session dialog box using Accessory Manager, only .ADP files are displayed by default. To view all files in the Sessions folder, select All Files from the Files of Type list box. (Any 3270, 5250, or VT sessions that you create using Accessory Manager automatically use the .ADP file extension, and will be immediately visible in the Open Session dialog box.)
- Edit Settings and File Transfer Settings do not appear in the Apply Settings category on the Action dialog box, so you cannot apply edit schemes or file transfer schemes using keyboard maps, QuickPads, toolbars, or HotSpots. However, you can create these schemes and use them in your session using the Settings dialog box.
- You cannot associate file transfer schemes with recorded host screens. File Transfer Schemes does not appear in the Available Settings list box on the Settings tab on the Page Settings dialog box.
- Any data about the session that was typed on the Properties dialog box using EXTRA! for Accessory Manager is not available from the Accessory Manager application window.
- Accessory Manager does not support EXTRA! layout files (.EWL).
- Although context-sensitive Help is available for all dialog boxes, no other online Help for EXTRA! is accessible from within Accessory Manager. To access additional online Help for this product, you must run EXTRA! for Accessory Manager as a stand-alone application and click the desired item from its Help menu.
EXTRA! Administrative Tools
In addition to the utilities included with INFOConnect, EXTRA! for Accessory Manager provides a few utilities that are installed into the same program group under Windows. For more information about these utilities, see the Related Topics links.
