Re: TN5250 Connections during backups

Scott, 

Excerpts from mail: 18-Aug-97 TN5250 Connections during b.. "Scott S.
Robertson"@dps (1386*) 

> Could it be as simple as ending the TELNET server, delaying the job for
> ?? seconds, and restarting the TELNET server in a CL prior to backups? 
> Any other (or better) ideas? 

It will be even simpler, I hope!  

Take a look at the CHGTELNA CL command, which is available via CFGTCP,
option 20, option 11, option 1.  Here is the panel you will see:          

                       Change TELNET Attributes (CHGTELNA) 

 Type choices, press Enter. 

 Autostart server . . . . . . . .   *YES          *YES, *NO, *SAME 
 Inactivity timeout . . . . . . .   0             0-2147483647, *SAME, *DFT 
 Timemark timeout . . . . . . . .   600           0-2147483647, *SAME, *DFT 
 Default NVT type . . . . . . . .   *VT100        *SAME, *VT100, *NVT 
 Coded character set identifier     *MULTINAT     1-65533, *SAME, *MULTINAT... 
 ASCII fullscreen mapping: 
   Outgoing EBCDIC/ASCII table  .   *CCSID        Name, *SAME, *CCSID, *DFT 
     Library  . . . . . . . . . .                 Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB 

   Incoming ASCII/EBCDIC table  .   *CCSID        Name, *SAME, *CCSID, *DFT 
     Library  . . . . . . . . . .                 Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB 



Check out the help for the inactivity timer value:  


   Specifies the number of seconds the system allows a TELNET   
   connection to remain inactive before it is ended.  When a    
   TELNET connection is inactive longer than the specified      
   length of time, it is ended.                                 

  Note:  The system may wait an additional 1 to 120        
         seconds to end the inactive connection.    

It defaults to 0 which means it never times out the connection! 

Mark L Bauman 
AS/400 Software Communications Development  
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