Re: Automating communications to/from external platform

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can write a sockets program that uses port 23 to communicate. Does the
CS1500 provide a web service? You could use HTTPAPI in that case, and it
would be easier I think.

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Koester, Michael <mkoester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I'm hoping to automate what is currently done through a PC
> Telnet-to-CS1500 interactive session.  (CS 1500 is a telecom switch).
> My plan is to have an RPG program that sends text-string instructions
> from the i to the CS 1500 via VPN tunnel.  My program will monitor for
> and act on any response from the CS 1500 (no human interaction involved
> -- as in, "Look, Ma! No hands!).
> My challenge is that I am not at all familiar with the technologies for
> communicating from the i to/from another (in this case, non-IBM) device.
> Is TELNET appropriate here, or does that require an interactive 5250
> session?
> The i is at 6.1
> Any advice is welcome.  Many thanks!
>
> Michael Koester
>
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