RE: X.25 ?

Mark:

Have you investigated the User-Defined Communications APIs on the
AS/400? Perhaps the communications are simple enough to make it
feasible to code your own. And if the project engineer knows the
work has been done before, perhaps he could put you in touch with
someone who can supply the code -- maybe it's all written but
just not in a commercial package.

Tom Liotta

On Thu, 28 March 2002, Mark Allen wrote

>
> Buck, what about Siemens switches.  The outside project
engineer did
> mention BX.25 but gave me the "impression" that they had
connected to
> 400's before???
>
> :-----Original Message-----
> :[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Buck
Calabro
> :
> :Mark Allen wrote:
> :>
> :> We are putting in a new Siemens telephone switch,
> :> go live date in June. Talking with the project
> :> manager today we will be able to "poll" the
> :> switch for billing and carrier data (current
> :> system is a manual tape dump).
> :>
> :> Software wise he said we would need an X.25
> :> polling package?  Do any of you "wise and
> :> esteemed" members know of any such animal?
> :
> :http://www.udsinc.com/ has a package called Pollmaster that
> :might fit the bill.  It uses a PC BUT you can map an IFS
> :folder to the PC and essentially poll to the iSeries.
> :
> :If the switch really uses X.25 you can also roll your own.
> :Configuration is the worst part.  The Lucent switches use a
> :very chopped up version of X.25 called BX.25.  The iSeries
> :does NOT speak BX.25, but Pollmaster does.

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