The design of web pages used to be a very straightforward process. You picked a style and made sure that that style was applied throughout your website. Usually, each page would have a fixed width of 500 or 700 pixels, which would be formatted in a grid pattern to best represent the content of the page.

But that was way back when you only had to be concerned about designing a web page that would be displayed on a desktop or a laptop. Today, your web page might be displayed on a desktop, a laptop, a tablet, or a mobile

Time and time again, applications need to know something about the environment they’re running on. For example, if an application uses dynamic SQL and it needs to know what features are available, then knowing what version of IBM i it is using can help it decide how to build a query. Likewise, when auditing the source of database changes, it’s useful to know the TCP/IP address of the host requesting the change.

Consider the case where an application may need to know if a certain required PTF has been installed. While there have always been APIs to retrieve this information,

Last issue, I published Part 1 of a primer for setting up IBM i PC5250 Telnet sessions to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. That article described everything you need for configuring your IBM i server to use SSL Telnet. This issue, I’ll look at the PC Windows side and show you how to configure your IBM i Access for Windows clients to use SSL when starting Telnet sessions.

Revisiting The Overview

Last time, I listed out these six basic steps for configuring Telnet SSL connectivity between a PC and an IBM i partition. These steps are performed in your