The Infor BW Environment and Configuration Selector

	The Infor BW Environment and Configuration Selector The Infor BW Environment and Configuration Selector is a tool that enables you to manage a set of Infor BW configuration files (.bwc files) for one or more LN or Baan environments. To add a new configuration file: Start the Infor BW environment and Configuration Selector (BECS). Depending on the version of the Infor application a different program folder entry must be selected: Infor Baan IVc Start > Programs > BaanIV > BaanIV Infor Baan 5.0 Start > Programs > BaanERP > BaanERP LN Start > Programs > Infor ERP > Infor BECS On Windows Vista / Server 2008 or later, however, for each version the program folder entry is: Start > All Programs > Infor > BW > BECS. The BECS – Infor BW Environment and Configuration Selector window appears: Select the new environment (preceded with <empty>), and on the File menu, click New. The BW Configuration Properties dialog box appears: For a Infor Baan IVc environment, the BW Configuration dialog appears: Supply this information: On the Application Server tab of the BW Configuration Properties dialog, you can select these Baan services: Published: This option uses the Active Directory Service (ADS) feature. The connection information will be retrieved from ADS if you select the appropriate environment name in the drop down listbox. We do not recommend that you use this option. Private: You must specify these fields: Host Name: Specify the Infor server host name. BSE: Specify the path to the BSE environment on the Infor application server, which is equal to the BSE environment variable on the Infor application server. Protocol: Depending on the protocol that is installed and configured on the Infor server, you can select one of these protocols: Rexec, BaanLogin, and SSPI Login. For more information about the protocol to be selected, see the relevant Infor server Installation Guide. The Published feature only works in the following instances: You are actually logged on to the Windows domain. You have configured access to the Active Directory Server on your client system through the BECS options dialog. This option dialog can be started by the BECS menu entry Tools > Options. Your Infor application backend has been published in the Active Directory. We do not recommend that you use the Published feature. You can only use the SSPI Login if your Infor server is a Windows server and you are logged on to the Windows domain. Port number: To change the default port number, you must have selected BaanLogin as the protocol to be used. If you intend to change the default (7150), you must be sure that the supplied port number is the same as the port number on which the BaanLogin daemon on the server is listening. Username: Enter a valid user name that is known on the Infor server. If you selected SSPI Login as the protocol to be used, you do not have to supply a username because your current Windows domain identity will be used. Password: If this option is enabled (not applicable if you use the SSPI Login), your password will be stored in the Baan configuration .bwc file. On the Bshell Environment tab of the BW Configuration Properties dialog, you must fill in the following fields: Bshell Name: Enter the application logic to use on the remote Infor host. Command: The command option can usually be left empty. In special occasions, you can enter the options you want to pass to the bshell. You can, for example, use the following syntax to define environment variables: `-set Environment Variable1=xxx -set Environment Variable2=yyy` For a description of these environment variables, see Chapter 5, set command. On the BW Configuration dialog of Baan IVc, the Application Server tab has more or less the same information as on the Application Server tab and the Bshell Environment tab of the BW Configuration Properties dialog. The essential differences are as follows. Published: On Baan IVc, the Active Directory Service (ADS) feature is not available. Always a Hostname, a BSE, and a connection method must be specified. We do not recommend that you use this feature. Connect As: Enter a username or select the Current User checkbox to select the named pipe connection method. Method: SSPI login is not available on Infor Baan IVc. The named pipe connection method is implicitly available by selecting the Connect As Current User checkbox. From a user perspective, this offers the same functionality as SSPI login. On the NLS tab, you must fill in the Locale field, which enables you to select the character set to be used. The default character set is International [ISO]. The selected Locale must correspond with the Infor Baan server locale. For LN, porting set 7.6b and later, BW will automatically use the same locale as the bshell. In this case, the settings of the Locale field on the NLS tab are ignored. On the Font tab, fill in the Font type field, which enables you to enter the desired font type. To change the setting, you can click the button on the right side of the font boxes. The property Standard BW Font can be used to change the font used by BW to show data in edit fields, labels etc. The default setting is the font set in the Windows control panel for menus. (This property is not available for Infor Baan IVc and Infor Baan 5.0). The other two font settings only affect the BW character windows, for example, the display browser. On the Automation tab, you can review the information in the Class Name field, which contains the name of the Baan automation object Baan.Application.server, where server is the hostname of the Infor Baan server you supplied on the Application Server tab. To save the new configuration in a configuration file, click OK. On the BW Configuration dialog of Baan IVc a Save and a Save as… button are available. The BECS – Infor BW Environment and Configuration Selector window appears again, and now shows the new configuration: To start BW, select and double-click the entry for the new configuration. To start an Infor Baan logon procedure, double-click the icon that corresponds to the relevant .bwc file in the Explorer. You can also create a shortcut to a .bwc configuration file and store this shortcut in a Program Group Folder, or on the Windows Desktop. The Windows operating systems register the Infor Baan Configuration (.bwc) files. The location where the .bwc files are stored (the so-called Profile Storage Path) defaults to the directory `lib\user` under the installation directory of the Infor Baan client software. On Windows Vista, Windows 2008 or later, the default Profile Storage Path is the directory: `AppData\Local\Infor\BW\<environment name>\config` under the user directory of the current user, typically `C:\Users\<user name>`. It is also possible to specify (per environment) a non-default Profile Storage Path for the .bwc files. In BECS, first select a .bwc file of the concerned environment and then choose menu item Tools > Options This dialog appears (for an environment named 'ERPLN' and a user named 'demo'): On Windows Vista, Windows 2008 or later, this dialog displays: By means of the radio buttons, a pre-defined alternative directory can be used, or a custom directory can be specified. In BECS, it is possible to copy (Ctrl+C, or use context menu item Copy) a .bwc file to the clipboard. Switch the Profile Storage Path as described above and paste (Ctrl+V or use context menu item P aste) the .bwc file from the clipboard into the new directory. In this way, for example, it is possible for an administrator to 'publish' a .bwc file by copying it from his Local directory and pasting it into the Public directory. The same procedure can be used by a normal user to 'import' a .bwc file by copying it from the Public directory and pasting it into his Local directory. Pasting is not possible into an Infor Baan IVc environment. For Infor Baan IVc environments, you can specify an alternative Profile Storage Path only on Windows Vista or later.