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  3. September 2005

Re: 5250 telnet keepalive

Albert York wrote:
> I have a situation where my telnet seesions keep timing out. For various
> reason, which are not pertinent here, it is necessary for me to access
> the AS/400 through another AS/400 and I can't use the passthrouhg
> capability. So I have written a TCP/IP bridge program to accomplish which
> has two sockets open and forwards whatever it receives on one socket to
> the other socket. It works quite well except for the timeout problem.
> After 15 minutes or so of inactivity the connection just hangs and I have
> to disconnect and reconnect.
> 
> I would like to know if there is some UDDS string (like a poll) that my
> bridge program could send to either the AS/400 or the terminal emulation
> program which would keep the connection alive but would not effect the
> job in any way.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Albert York

Can you use this CHGTELNA parm (its sockets level keepalive)?

Session keep alive timeout . . . TIMMRKTIMO

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