Enter the 1 to 10-character IBM iSeries user identifier or your company assigned network user identifier. You will not be able to use the S4i Express WebView system unless you have both a valid iSeries or network user identifier and an associated S4i Express Destination entry.

^Top

Enter your 1 to 10-character IBM iSeries or company assigned network password.

^Top

S4i Express WebView provides you web browser based access to the documents and spool files stored in the S4i Express online repository and archives.

S4i Express WebView has been tested with Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.0.7 and Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.2900.2180 browsers. In addition, you will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® version 6.0.2+ to view the documents.

From the S4i Express WebView interface you will be able to list, display and distribute (print, email, FTP, download, etc.) your authorized documents.



Because your list of documents may be huge, S4i Express WebView provides a facility to organize your documents in a manner most usefull to you.

You have the facilities available to create favorite statements which are used to subset (limit) the documents shown in a documents list.
These favorite statements may be saved in a Favorites list for reselection and processing. This feature gives you the ability to organize your documents into as many list as you want and quickly retrieve your documents without having to navigate document list trees.
Note: Full instructions for creating and using favorite statements is on the Favorite Filter List page.

After your list of documents is displayed you have the following options:

• Save a document list item in your Favorites list
• View a listed document at your workstation using the Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Email a listed document using the S4i Express iSeries host email facilities
• Print a listed document to a iSeries printer
• Print a listed document to your local workstation or network printer
• Fax a list document
• FTP a list document to a remote location
• Download a listed document from the iSeries to a network location
• Save a listed document to your local workstation in PDF format.

Note: You may not be able to use all the distribution options available.

:^Top

You are communicating from your local desktop web browser, across the internet or your company local network to a web server running S4i Express WebView. S4i Express WebView is communicating with you and S4i Express running on one of your companies IBM iSeries computers.

When you enter or select a Filter statement from your Favorites and click on the button, your browser sends a transaction to the S4i Express WebView server, which in turn validates the transaction and sends it on to the host S4i Express system for processing.

S4i Express on the host gathers the list of documents that match the Filter statement criteria and returns them to S4i Express WebView where they are reformatted into web pages and returned to your browser for viewing.

1. Create filters that limit the list of documents transferred to you local workstation:
   
   You can cause a tremendous amount of data to be transferred between the iSeries host system and your workstation, depending on the Filter statement you submit and the selections you make. It is your responsibility to make selections wisely and keep delays to a minimum.
   
   For example, if you select the *DEFAULT filter, a list of every version of every document and index item you are authorized to view will be transferred to your local workstation. This list could consist of thousands of items and take a long time to transfer, so the first performance hint is to create filters that limit the list of documents transferred to your local workstation
   
   
2. Use the page selection fields when viewing segments
   
   Sometime we are not sure the document listed is the one we need. If you select a 500 page document, the entire file must be retrieved, translated to Adobe Acrobat format and downloaded to your workstation.
   
   When you view a document, you can select a starting and ending page number, so the second performance hint is to use the page selection fields when viewing segments
   
   
3. Use relative dates to limit your document list.
   
   You can enter a date or relative number in the "From date" and "To date" parameters. If you enter a number between 1 and 356 the number will be subtracted from the current date to calculate the actual From or To date. So, if you want this weeks document then enter "7" in the "From date" field and leave the "To date" as an astrich.

  ^Top

Messages:

• The S4i Express iSeries host *WEBVEWCTL profile task(s) are running.
• The S4i Express properties file (express.properties) "expSysName" property contains the URL or IP address of the proper iSeries system.
• The express.properties file "expControllerLib" property contains the S4i Express iSeries "data" library name (default S4IXPDATA).
• The express.properties file "expAdmName" property contains a valid (enabled) iSeries user with authority to all the ZS2H... and ZH2S... data queues.
• The express.properties file "expAdmPassword" property is valid.
• The express.properties file "expControllerShQueue" property contains "ZS2H".
• The express.properties file "expControllerHsQueue" property contains "ZH2S".
• Review the S4i Express WebView servel logs.

• You enter an invalid iSeries user identifier or password.
• Your entered iSeries user identifier is disabled.
• Your entered user identifier does not match the User identifier field on any S4i Express Destination
• Your entered user identifier is not in an OS/400 group identified on any S4i Express Destination User identifier field.
• The S4i Express Destination record is NOT in *READY status.
• You enter a network (non-iSeries) user identifier that failed validation.
• You entered a network user identifier that does not match an S4i Express Destination.

^Top