Important Observations
- When you logon to LANSA as a Slave Workstation, you select the partition, language, and task ID to be used. The LANSA Administrator will create profiles and authorities to control access to LANSA.
- When you logon to LANSA with a free trial version or with an Independent Workstation, you select Partition and click OK.
- LANSA can be started from the LANSA desktop folder or using the Window's Start menu.
- Documentation in the LANSA folder is a link to the documentation home page.
- LANSA documentation is delivered from the LANSA Documentation website and is displayed in your default browser.
- The Search field in a document is used to search the same guide.
- The Search field on the Home page is used to search all the guides.
Tips & Techniques
- Remember to use the F1 online help while using LANSA and these exercises. There is online help throughout the user interface.
- LANSA provides a wide range of user, developer, administrator, and technical documentation, as well as documentation by product.
What I Should Know
- How to start Visual LANSA.
- How to logon using a specific partition, language, and task ID.
- How to open the LANSA documentation and use the documentation toolbar.
- How to use F1 context sensitive help. (F2 context help will be tried in a later exercise.)
- How to search all LANSA guides or how to search a single guide.
- Partition Initialize from the LANSA Logon dialog will load the shipped Demonstration Systems, which includes the files used in training courses.