Re: Communications

Get the PC DOS  up to  PC DOS 7[with fix]  or PC DOS 2000
 to beY2K Ready [compliant] on the PC side as well.

At 11:36 AM 12/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Pat Barber wrote----   
>
>Buck Calabro/commsoft wrote:
>> 
>> >We are looking for an AS/400 based communications package.
>> >The put it real simple--something that will function like
>> >a CROSSTALK or PROCOMM on the PC; file transfer, scripting, etc.
>> 
>> A "poor man's" resource is the command STRITF.  It comes
>> with OS400, but it isn't pretty.  To send a break or control
>> key you press ATTN and select the "special key" from the menu.
>
>A very little understood piece of code... Is capable of very fast
>file transfers,, very "little" documentation on program.. although
>I recall a News/400 article that described it in depth & detail...
>Need to root through archives for that one....
>
>
>=====
>A hearty thank-you to everyone who has made suggestions.  Our legacy system
>uses PC based DOS 
>products to pull down a file from the AS/400 and then turn around and "send
>it" to a bank or other institution
>for processing.
>
>We are --in our Y2K remediation-- trying to eliminate as many points of
>failure as possible--thus the desire
>to communicate the "file" directly to a bank etc using a communications
>scripting package from the AS/400. 
>
>We "do" have a very specific EDI package called FUTURE3, but it does not
>have a separate communication
>feature.  Previous experience--I used GENTRAN and used the communications
>part to direct file transfers-- but
>for this application I think GENTRAN could be too expensive.
>
>STRIF looks like it might not have all we need....but thanks again for the
>effort!
>
>
>Barry L. Boyer (bboyer@gstleather.com)
>Manager, MIS Operations
>Garden State Tanning
>
>
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Seasons Greetings

Glenn
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Glenn Ericson,          Phoenix Consulting                      
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