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AS400 Terminal Install & Setup Instructions

Install MacOS

For the iMac model, use the following OSX releases:

A1195 (White Bezel) - OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.4 Tiger to 10.7 Lion)

A1208 (White Bezel) - OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.4 Tiger to 10.7 Lion)

A1224 (Silver Bezel) - OSX 10.10 Yosemite (10.5 Leopard to 10.11 El Capitan)

A1418 (Silverback) - OSX 10.14 Mojave (10.8 Mountain Lion to 10.15 Catalina)

  • During install, split into 2 partitions. Format partition 1 as AFS or HFS. Format partition 2 as Fat32 (Apple refers to Fat32 as just FAT).
  • Install the next to most recent version of OSX instead of the most recent onto partition 1.
  • Shut down, then hold option after pressing the power button to choose the startup drive to select the Lubuntu install USB drive.

Install Lubuntu

  • Boot to the Lubuntu USB drive and choose Try Lubuntu.
  • Once loaded, click the start menu -> System Tools -> KDE Partition Manager.
  • In the partition manager, select the Fat32 partition and click delete. Then click apply and close the partition manager.
  • Double click the install Lubuntu icon from the desktop.
  • The user name should be terminal (lowercase). For computer name, I used "terminal-MODELMMYY" (ex. terminal-A11950924)
  • Make sure to select the option to not require login when creating the user.

Setting up Lubuntu with the iAccess software

Copy files

  • Create a new folder on the desktop named temp (all lowercase).
  • Copy the contents of \\SOHBACKUP\Programs\2024-Terminals to the new folder you created.
    • Alternately you can copy the whole "Terminals" folder to the desktop, right click the folder and rename it to temp.

Run setup script

  • Open the terminal
    • For Lubuntu 18, it is LXTerminal: Start -> System Tools -> LXTerminal
    • For Lubuntu 24, it is QTerminal: Start -> System Tools -> QTerminal
  • At the terminal prompt, type the following:

cd ~/Desktop/temp

sudo chmod +x install*.sh

For 32-Bit systems (A1195 & A1208): sudo ./install32.sh

For 64-Bit systems (A1224 & A1418): sudo ./install64.sh

This installs prerequisites*, JAVA (1.8.0_381), ODBC (2.3.12), IBM iAccess (v1r9), and other configuration files. It should ask you to answer a few questions once it starts installing the IBM software. Answer them all Yes.

Prerequisites

  • install
  • dialog
  • make
  • automake
  • autoconf
  • libtool
  • glibc*
  • alien
  • odbcinst
  • unixodbc
  • libmotif-common
  • numlockx

Post Install

Accept the i Access EULA

  • Open IBM iAccess Client Solutions: Start -> Internet -> IBM i Access Client Solutions

    • You can drag the icon to the desktop for future use, if desired.
  • In the window that first loads, scroll to the bottom of the EULA window and click accept.

  • Close the iAccess window.

Hide the taskbar

  • Right click the taskbar and click "Panel Settings"
  • Click on the Advanced tab
  • Check the box that says "Minimize panel when not in use"
  • Click Close

Disable Power Management

  • Open the Power Management console
    • Lubuntu 18: Start -> Preferences -> Power Manager
      • Security Tab
      • Change Slide all slider to the left so it says never
      • Click on the Security tab
      • Click the box next to "Automatically lock the session" and change it to Never
      • Click Close at the bottom
    • Lubuntu 24: Start -> Preferences -> LXQt Settings -> Power Management
      • Click the Idle section
      • Uncheck the "Enable Idleness Watcher" option at the top.
      • Optionally, disable the screensaver at Start -> Preferences -> XScreenSaver Settings
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A1224 (Silver Bezel) - OSX 10.10 Yosemite (10.5 Leopard to 10.11 El Capitan) | A1418 (Silverback) - OSX 10.14 Mojave (10.8 Mountain Lion to 10.15 Catalina)
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