RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest V2 #637

Our company, (and others,) publishes a commercial program that 
allow you to use the sockets interface with NO programming.
Our interface is through one incoming data queue and one
outgoing data queue.  You would configure the software to
run in *TCP mode in the *CLIENT role and connect to the 
telnet port (usually 23) on the unix machine.  You would
QRCVDTAQ the lines of text from the incoming queue, as respond
with username and password as needed.  Then, simply sending
the text you want to populate the telnet session with, you
can navigate to the screen you want and plug in whatever
data you desire.  You would not have to know ANYTHING about 
telnet or sockets or anything, just what the screens look
like coming from the unix box.

Frankly, this is simple, once the sockets link is in place.
Your program sends what you would key in directly to the 
telnet session yourself.

Ira Chandler, Technical Services, ROI Corporation
ira@roiconnect.com   800-396-7641 x512  http://roiconnect.com


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>Date: Mon, 19 Oct 98 15:25:43 CDT
>From: bvining@VNET.IBM.COM
>Subject: RPGILE and TELNET
>Two approaches come to mind.  The first is, as others have pointed out,
>to use the sockets interfaces documented in the System API Reference.
>The second would be to use the Virtual Terminal APIs also documented in
>the same manual.
>The former will require a great deal of knowledge related to Telnet
>data flow; the latter will call for no knowledge of Telnet per se, but
>will require knowledge of the 5250 data stream (what you will get in the
>RPG program is the 5250 equivalent of the Telnet panel) and you will
>want a copy of the 5494 Functions Reference handy if you go this way.
>Bruce Vining
>>
>>Is it possible to write a ILE RPG program to communicate with a Unix box
>>that only supports communications through a telnet session.  Can this be
>>done and if so how would you go about doing this.  Thanks in advance
>>

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