RE: CA Express and Life Certainties (A question appears at the end)

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like you need either a hosts file or a domain name server.  Here
is a hosts file example:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows NT.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1               localhost

This goes in c:\winnt40\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no extension on mine).
If the IP stack on your PC knows about the DNS, CAE will call TCP with the
system name.  TCP will call the DNS to resolve the name into an IP address.

Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson and Associates Ltd.
IBM Business Partner
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
Telephone: 1 (303) 808-8058


-|-----Original Message-----
-|From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
-|[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of DAsmussen@aol.com
-|Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:01 AM
-|To: midrange-l@midrange.com
-|Subject: CA Express and Life Certainties (A question appears at the end)
-|
-|
-|Folks,
-|
-|It has been said that the only things certain in life are death
-|and taxes.  I
-|would submit four more entries:
-|
-|1. IBM will always produce a harder to use emulation product than third
-|parties writing to its own platforms.
-|2. IBM will always use 2-5+ manuals to describe what other
-|vendors usually
-|distill into one, providing no links between them.
-|3. On the odd chance you have a choice of only two IBM manuals
-|for a specific
-|subject, you will always choose the "User's Guide" when you need the
-|"Reference" and vice versa.
-|4.  Unless your problem is either very simple or very old, you
-|will always
-|have to come to midrange-l in order to find the answer you seek.
-|
-|On the bright side, with the advent of the web I no longer have
-|to find the
-|desk space to support so many manuals open to various pages at
-|the same time.
-| Herewith, the question:
-|
-|I have a client moving from Rumba to CA Express (4.5.1) as part of a
-|corporate-wide standardization project.  Said client has several systems
-|attached throughout the continent via TCP/IP locally, and at least one
-|customer remotely.  This client has very few connections actually
-|described
-|on my local AS/400, in fact, none explicitly.
-|
-|I'm no TCP/IP expert, but I do know this.  I can connect CA Express to my
-|local host via the Wizard without difficulty using the system
-|name.  I can
-|further connect to one of our remote locations that appears on the local
-|AS/400 under NETSTAT with a generic address of First Three Digits (dot)
-|Second Three Digits (dot) zero (dot) zero where the succeeding zeros are
-|actually more explicit numbers, using the explicit number under CAE and a
-|setting of "Server".  I _CANNOT_ seem to connect to the remote customer
-|utilizing the same methodology used for the remote in-house
-|location, and the
-|remote customer has no similar generic entry under NETSTAT.
-|
-|I also know that, after adding a HOSTS entry to my NT machine, I
-|can PING and
-|TELNET to the remote customer under DOS.  I can also PING and
-|TELNET to the
-|remote customer via a session on our local hosting AS/400.  However, I
-|_CANNOT_ seem to connect to the remote customer using _ANY_
-|settings under
-|CAE.  Rumba (that we're replacing) on our old system is no
-|problem.  The old
-|version of NetSoft on my laptop is no problem.  CAE _IS_ a problem.
-|
-|Can anyone help me here?
-|
-|Regards,
-|
-|Dean Asmussen
-|Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
-|Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
-|E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
-|
-|"Anyone who loves either the law or sausages should not take a
-|close look at
-|how they are made" -- Bismarck
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