RE: Code/400 communications quality (was Terminal Server (citrixandcode400)

Interesting!  I have a VPN but generally go through my public IP address.

I have three questions: what PC O/S, do you think your VPN traps errors, and
how many Internet hops do you have between WI and CA?

There's one reason I trash EVFCTCPD.EXE without qualification: I have
problems using CODE all over the U.S. and Canada (with a ThinkPad and a
current version of Win2K).  It crashes on dial-up; it crashes on cable
modem.  It crashes on my desktop (always through the cable modem).  There
are a couple of possibilities left: it's my connection into my iSeries in
Nashville (partial T1, router, etc.), it's something in the iSeries itself,
or somehow I've bollixed up several instances of CODE.  At some point I'll
beat on another iSeries with CODE to see if it's Nashville-specific.

-rf

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Larry Paque
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:58 PM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: Code/400 communications quality (was Terminal Server
(citrixand code400)


Just so folks don't think that Reeve's experience is completely universal, I
would like to throw my $.02 in about using Code/400 remotely.

I have been working daily from WI over a cable Internet-VPN connection to my
office in CA for over a year.  When I have had a failure, the underlying
cause has been the network or firewall, not the communications daemon.
Since fixing those underlying problems, the communication failures are
almost non-existant.  This has been true for both 5.1 and 4.0.

Absolutely I wish Code400 handled the failures better when they occur, but I
see that as a separate issue.


-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reeve Fritchman
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:23 AM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: Terminal Server (Citrix) and Code/400


I've been told the communications daemon (EVFCTCPD.EXE: despised throughout
the universe and the worst piece of comm software I've been force to use in
29 year of midrange experience; my comm-related failure rate over an
Internet WAN is 11.7%: 119 failures in 1,017 attempts) "will be replaced" by
the RSE communications manager...and I remember being unhappy about the
schedule date.

We'll see if it appears in WDSC V5, but I don't think it will; I suspect
OS/400 changes may be necessary to manage comm failures.  I'm betting OS/400
V5R3 (which would be WDSC V6???  My hair hurts trying to track these
versions) is the best we can hope for.  But I have no inside information, so
the best you can do is download source through the LPEX editor, edit using
CODE, and upload through the LPEX editor.  Verify, one of the sweetest
features of CODE, probably won't work.

IBM's trying to do a lot with WDSC, and if they're like most other
businesses they're under-staffed.  They have the CODE crowd to appease while
jumping onto the Eclipse bandwagon; I'd guess most users are LAN, not WAN,
and the communications daemon seems to work for in the LAN world.

-reeve

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces+reeve=ltl400.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces+reeve=ltl400.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Steve Cross
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:31 AM
To: 'code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Terminal Server (Citrix) and Code/400


Our company is using Citrix application servers to provide remote access.  I
first start a VPN session before running the Citrix client.  It works very
well when I am out of the office, and I want to get some work done.  I had
the Computer Room install WDSC on the server (available to the IT staff) to
make the Code development tools available to them when they work from home.
I found out later that the Code/400 tools don't work in this environment,
because the Communication Daemon won't start.  I am able to work through the
Remote System Explorer, but I like the code editor better.  Will a future
release support Code/400 in this environment?  Or will the Editor in RSE
behave more like Code/400 in a future release?

Thanks,
Steve Cross
Sr. Programmer Analyst
Clipper Group
Phone (630) 739-0700 Ext 102
Fax (630) 739-0358

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