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I too might be making this overly complicated ... we have had to get an IBM tech in here to resolve some of these type challenges, and we have refrained from trying to install some of the latest micro code on our remote peripherals (if it aint broke don't mess with it). A whole lot of this stuff is no longer subject to regular IBM maintenance, which is one reason I reccommend sticking with Perle, which does provide regular upgrades & maintenance support. As I understand it, IBM sold their controller business to Cisco which decided not to bother with the AS/400 market. We now have AT+T Frame Relay, but converted to it this year from leased line in which we have 2 remote sites. One has Perle emulating 4 IBM remote controllers. Other has IBM 5394 emulating IBM 5494 We have had all of this equipment something like 10 years dating back to S/36 We have abandoned EDI but when we were using it, that came over our ECS line We have periodically had consultants who connected to us via our ECS line in a swiched dial up method Perle supports choice of point to point or dial up & both twinax & PC from same box, although we not using all options available to us. We also do not have the latest & greatest Perle model. IBM remote controller does not, to best of my knowlege ... it is purely for point to point connections, not switched dial up. In other words there are different models of various equipment. Some support twinax only Some support PC networks but not twinax Some support dial up switched but not point to point Some support point to point but not switched dial up Some support a mixture of the above Sounds to me like you replaced hardware that supported a diversity of different connections with hardware that only supports one & you trying to use it on what it is not designed to support. The person who made the decision to replace the hardware should be consulted as to how come they KNOW it would work. As I understand the terminology ... dial up is the same as switched which is a temporary connection like typical home PC modem to internet over voice phone line... point to point & multi point is all the time connection over a dedicated phone line by special (expensive) arrangements with ma bell, in which ma bell goes down occasionally but you have to pay same rate as if it is up all the time. One of the reasons we ended up with Perle for many years on leased lines was that ma bell charged something like $1,000.00 extra a month just to have a second point 2 inches from 1st point at remote site & IBM did not seem to be pushing their great Tailing Modem (you can hang 4 controllers off of a single modem), so by using Perle, ma bell thought we were on point to point while IBM & Perle thought we were on multi-point. Another point of clarification ... I do not know if you can do SDLC via switched dial up ... in the past we always used SDLC for point to point & BISYNC for dial up, unless the software came with 100% of our needs supplied (I have had to tinker with the "T" specs of RPG but it has been a while since I stuck my nose in there). At one time vendors reccommended that same brand model modem be used on both ends of point to point links - we do not use a lot of dial up, but we do have PC users on PC Anywhere & it sounds like many different ones work fine. We no longer have IBM modems in our configuration, but we had to choose when getting modems Modem for point to point that did not support dial up Modem for dial up that did not support point to point Modem connected to analog phone line that cannot communicate on digital line Modem connected to digital phone line that cannot communicate on analog line Some of the newer modems can do some combinations You need to find out what brand model modem they have at remote line, then check on capabilities of modems at both ends. > Subj: 5494 connection > Date: 07/17/2000 11:52:33 AM Central Daylight Time > From: Todd.kidwell@3cc.co.wayne.mi.us (Todd kidwell) > > I need to establish a connection from a remote site to my AS/400 via a > 5494 controller using a dial-up (SDLC) link. This site previously had a > connection with a Perle controller emulating a 5394 controller. I'm not sure > what type of modem they have on the remote end, but they were coming through > on my ECS modem. > > I've searched the 5494 manuals, but they don't mention being able to > establish a switched, point-to-point (or multi-point) connection between the > controller and the AS/400. We don't have any network cards in the controller > - only a twinax card. I think I'm making this harder than it needs to be, > but I can't figure out how to make the modems establish the connection. > > Can anyone help me out with the necessary configuration for the line, > controller (both AS/400 and the 5494 controller), and modems? > > TIA, > > > > Todd Kidwell (Netstar) > AS/400 System Administrator > (313) 224-0578 Al Macintyre ©¿© http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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