Re: Re: System i Access Ports

Thanks Pete (and Brian) and everyone else who passed on information. The
problem with the chart that Brian and others referenced was that it doesn't
tell you the most important bits - which are which ports are needed by which
functions.

In our case we knew port 23 was good becuase telnet worked (as did Mocha) so
what ports did we need just to run CA 5250? That was the issue. Thanks to Paul
Nelson we found what appears to be the "best" answer so far
(http://tinyurl.com/6vcql) or this
(http://www-912.ibm.com/n_dir/nas4apar.NSF/c79815e083182fec862564c00079d117/fcc664db54c4c549862568720047b5fd?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,ii12227)for
those who like the long version (all 140 chars!).

This relates to V5R2 but is hopefully good for later releases. If you look
towards the end you'll see the magic information of which functions use what.
Quite why such critical information is buried in an APAR is anybody's guess.

Who would have guessed that 5250 needed 3 ports!

from: Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: System i Access Ports

Bryan,

The Wiki was the first place I went to help Jon because I knew that
the info was there. So I went to the *logical* place:

http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Category:ISeries_Access

No references to ports there. Probably need a link from the iSeries
Access page to the one you reference in TCP/IP

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.valadd.com
www.opensource4i.com

Jon Paris