How to install OASIS

Hello!

OpenText HostExplorer is used for connecting to the UCLA mainframe applications. A small number of Library staff have an OASIS login, which are credentials used to connect and access the relevant applications.
Any questions beyond installing the software should be directed to IT Services. DIIT cannot help with credentials, access, or how to use the software.

To install OASIS, you will need this software called OpenText HostExplorer, currently at version 15.

You can download it here. On Windows, once downloaded, you will need someone from DIIT to use their admin rights to install it on your computer. Once the software and the IT person are ready, here are the steps:

• Double-click on the .exe file downloaded.

Open

• Click on Next.

Open

• Click on Next.

• Click on Install (that’s where the IT person intervenes!).

• Click on Finish.

• Click on Install OpenText HostExplorer.

• Click on Personal Installation.

• Click on OK.

• Click on Next.

• Click on I accept the terms in the License Agreement and click on Next.

• Enter your name in the User Name field and UCLA in the Organization one. Click on Next.

• Click on Next. The next screenshots are for reference, but you can go ahead and click Next until the end, basically.

• Click on Next.

• Click on Next.

• Click on Next.

• Click on Install (that’s where the IT person intervenes!).

• Click on Finish.

• Click on Yes, and your computer should reboot!

Almost there! You should now have this icon on your desktop:

• Double-click on it, and it should open something that looks like this:

• Double-click on the icon that says New HostExplorer Profile:

• Replace the profile name with OASIS, and in the Host name field, please type: zos.ais.ucla.edu

• In the Port field, please type: 992.

• It should look like this:

• Click on Properties, it will open this window:

• Click on Security and you should see this:

• Set the Security Options to SSL / TLS. It should look like this:

• Click on SSL / TLS on the left side. You should see this:

• Click on the drop-down menu that says SSL Version 3 and select TLS Version 1. It should look like this:

• Then back to the left side, click on Keyboard, it will open this window:

• Untick the Ignore NumLock state box. It should look like this:

• Click OK. It will send you back here:

• Click on OK again. It will connect to UCLA:

• Close the session, and go back to Connection Central:

• Right-click on the OASIS icon and select Create Shortcut:

• Scroll all the way up to Desktop and click OK: it will create a shortcut on your desktop.

• You should now have an OASIS shortcut on your desktop:

And you should be able to connect! Thank you, and happy OASISing! -