Re: Communication to Banks

[Richard Brown <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

We have seen many clients connect to banks using bisync and async.   SNA
almost always becomes a fiasco to troubleshoot because of the differences in
terminology between the AS/400 world and the mainframe world.  My suggestion
is to ask the bank if they support bisync or async (using xmodem, ymodem or
zmodem).  If they support simple bisync you can write something fairly
easily.  If they support async, (I have yet to see a bank that did not offer
this option), our company has a product that is sort of like having ProComm
on your AS/400.  It's called ZMOD400 and you can even use your ECS modem.
You can download a trial from www.softwarejungle.com to try if you like.
More than half of our customers use ZMOD400 for transferring their ACH
(payroll) files to banks.  I am curious to know what bank you are
transmitting with because we may already have a script to do it.

Rich Brown
TrailBlazer Systems


At 05:43 PM 6/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone configured an AS/400 for communciations with a Bank.  This would
be to do direct deposits for payroll.  I would like to use the IBM ECS modem
to do this.  The Bank supports SNA and FEP 3745.  Any help this way would be
appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>Jeff Williamson
>
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