Re: 5250 telnet keepalive

I believe that is one of the things I tried but there doesn't seem to be
any way to check it. The CGFTELNA command just shows the defaukts. I
changed to to 600 seconds. Do I have to restart the telnet server before
it takes effect?

Thanks,

Albert

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Jeffrey Stevens"
  To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: 5250 telnet keepalive
  Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:33:54 -0500


  Albert York wrote:
  > I have a situation where my telnet seesions keep timing out. For
  various
  > reason, which are not pertinent here, it is necessary for me to
  access
  > the AS/400 through another AS/400 and I can't use the passthrouhg
  > capability. So I have written a TCP/IP bridge program to accomplish
  which
  > has two sockets open and forwards whatever it receives on one
  socket to
  > the other socket. It works quite well except for the timeout
  problem.
  > After 15 minutes or so of inactivity the connection just hangs and
  I have
  > to disconnect and reconnect.
  >
  > I would like to know if there is some UDDS string (like a poll)
  that my
  > bridge program could send to either the AS/400 or the terminal
  emulation
  > program which would keep the connection alive but would not effect
  the
  > job in any way.
  >
  > Thank you,
  >
  > Albert York

  Can you use this CHGTELNA parm (its sockets level keepalive)?

  Session keep alive timeout . . . TIMMRKTIMO

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