Re: 5250 telnet keepalive

The suggestions in the article didn't work for me
either :-(

Mochasoft has a keep-alive property that does work,
but my preference would be for Client Access to stay
alive.

Nathan Andelin

--- Albert York <albertyork@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> I did find that article by searching on the
> internet. However, it didn't
> seem to make much difference.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Albert
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: "Dave Schnee"
>   To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Subject: Re: 5250 telnet keepalive
>   Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:44:52 -0400
> 
> 
>   Albert:
> 
>   If you're using IBM's Client Access for Telnet,
> there is something
>   you can
>   do. That emulator does have the capability to send
> "keepalive"
>   packets,
>   but the means of turning it on is yet another IBM
> SECRET!
> 
>   For that reason, I posted a "tech tip" on my user
> group's web site.
> 
>   The site is: http://www.lisug.org
> 
>   And the specific tech tip is:
>   http://www.lisug.org/Techtipclientaccess.htm
> 
>   Dave Schnee,
>   Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
> 
>   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
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