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Configure an HTML rendering server on IBM i


After you have installed OS/400 - Additional Fonts (5761SS1, Option 43), which is for Version 6R1, or OS/400 - Additional Fonts (5770SS1, Option 43), which is for v7R1, on the IBM i system, an HTML rendering server (X virtual frame buffer for X server) is present. Select a display number for the HTML rendering server.

To configure an HTML rendering server:

  1. If the QShell Interpreter is running, perform the following commands on the IBM i command line to stop it:

    • QSH

    • Press F3

  2. Type CALL QP2TERM on the command line to start the OS/400 Portable Application Solutions Environment (OS/400 PASE) console.

  3. Type ps gaxuw | grep Xvnc ; ps gaxuw | grep vfb on the command line to list all active HTML rendering servers:

    If other rendering servers are already active, we might see output such as this (the number after the colon is the display number already in use):

    v2kea554 40571 0.0  0.0 12484 0 - A Jul 13 4:08
    /QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/DeveloperTools/vnc/Xvnc :6 -desktop X -httpd  

  4. Select any number from 1 to 9that is not in use.

  5. Press F3 to return to the command line interface.

  6. Type SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/usr/bin/X11/X' '-vfb' ':N')) JOB(XVFB) JOBQ(QSYSNOMAX) ALWMLTTHD(*YES) on the command line to start the HTML rendering server, where N is the display number.

  7. Verify the HTML rendering server is started by repeating the prior steps to start PASE and list the active servers, confirming that an HTML rendering server with the display number is in the list.

After rendering the documents, enable the document conversion services. See Enable Document Conversion Services for information.


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