> # Using This Book

> This book assumes you are familiar with your operating system and its commands; the concept of directories; the management of user accounts and security access; and your network protocol and its configuration.

> This book contains the following information:

> - "Introduction" introduces some concepts to help you understand how to configure and manage your SequeLink environment.

> Part 1: Configuring and Managing SequeLink Services

> - "Using the SequeLink® Manager Snap-in" describes how to use the SequeLink Manager Snap-in.
> - "Configuring SequeLink® Services Using the SequeLink Manager Snap-in" describes how to create and manage server data sources with the SequeLink Manager Snap-in.
> - "Managing Data Access Activity Using the SequeLink® Manager Snap-in" describes the tasks you perform to manage and monitor SequeLink service activity using the SequeLink Manager Snap-in.
> - "Using the SequeLink® Manager Command-Line Administrator" describes how to use the SequeLink Manager Command-Line Tool, issue SequeLink Manager commands, and lists some commonly used SequeLink Manager commands.
> - "Using the SequeLink® Manager for z/OS" describes how to use the SequeLink Manager for z/OS.
> - "Configuring SequeLink® Services Using the SequeLink® Manager for z/OS" describes the tasks you may need to perform to configure and manage SequeLink Server for z/OS services and data access activities locally from a z/OS machine.

> Part 2: Configuring and Managing SequeLink Clients

> - "Configuring the ODBC Client" describes the tasks you may need to perform to configure and manage the SequeLink Client for ODBC.
> - "Configuring the ADO Client" describes the tasks you may need to perform to configure and manage the SequeLink Client for ADO.
> - "Configuring the JDBC Client" describes the tasks you may need to perform to configure and manage the SequeLink Client for JDBC.
> - "Configuring the .NET Client" describes the tasks you may need to perform to configure and manage the SequeLink Client for .NET.

> Part 3: Configuring SequeLink in Your Environment

> - "Configuring Transliteration" describes how configure transliteration for SequeLink Server.
> - "Configuring SequeLink® Security" offers an overview of SequeLink security options and describes how to configure SequeLink security for Linux, UNIX, and Windows and z/OS platforms.
> - "Configuring the SequeLink® Proxy Server" describes how to configure SequeLink security for Java environments.
> - "Configuring SequeLink® Services for Your Database" describes how to configure SequeLink services for specific databases.
> - "Using LDAP with the SequeLink® Clients" explains how SequeLink Clients use LDAP directories to retrieve connection information and describes how to create and update LDAP entries for SequeLink services.

> Part 4: Appendixes

> - "z/OS Workload Manager (WLM) Classification" describes the information used by SequeLink Server to classify WLM enclaves.
> - "SequeLink® Manager Commands" lists all available SequeLink Manager commands.
> - "Operator Interface Commands for z/OS" lists all available Operator Interface commands by category.
> - "SequeLink® Service Attributes" lists the SequeLink Manager attributes you can use to configure and manage your SequeLink environment.
> - "SequeLink® Events" lists and defines the SequeLink events, the attributes associated with events, and explains how to write a filter for an event.
> - "Internationalization, Localization, and Unicode" provides an overview of how internationalization, localization, and Unicode relate to each other.

> NOTE: This book refers the reader to Web URLs for more information about specific topics, including Web URLs not maintained by DataDirect Technologies. Because it is the nature of Web content to change frequently, DataDirect Technologies can guarantee only that the URLs referenced in this book were correct at the time of publishing.