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Slave Workstation

To complete this exercise you must be using Visual LANSA as a Slave Workstation. This means it can be connected to a Master LANSA system on an IBM i server, so that you can check in and check out Repository objects and execute a form in client/server mode against the IBM i server.

If you are using a free trial copy of Visual LANSA or Visual LANSA as a Standalone installation, you can complete the exercise but will only call the function as a Windows Application running on the desktop, with a local database.

Objective

• To demonstrate the EXCHANGE and CALL commands and the CALL_SERVER FUNCTION BuiltIn Function. To do this:
• You will create a simple form, Salary Review, which calls a function passing department code and a number that represents 'percentage salary increase'.
• The called function will create a list of employees for the requested department, containing both current and new salaries based on the percentage increase. This results list is returned to the calling form.
• The Salary Review form will display the result in a list view and calculates the total cost of the increase.
• The called function will be compiled for Windows and will also be checked in and compiled on the IBM i server.
• The Salary Review form will be tested in two different modes:
• As a Windows Application running on the desktop, with a local database.
• As a client to an RDMLX IBM i Server
• The form will use a system variable *SSERVER_CONNECTED (value Y or N) to determine whether to CALL the local function, or use CALL_SERVER_FUNCTION to call the function running on the IBM i server.

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In order to achieve these objectives, you must complete the following:

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Step 4. Test Salary Review Application

Summary

Before You Begin

Complete all earlier FRM exercises.

This exercise requires access to an IBM i server.
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