Re: 5250 telnet keepalive

Albert:

If you're using IBM's Client Access for Telnet, there is something you can 
do.  That emulator does have the capability to send "keepalive" packets, 
but the means of turning it on is yet another IBM SECRET!

For that reason, I posted a "tech tip" on my user group's web site.

The site is:   http://www.lisug.org

And the specific tech tip is:   
http://www.lisug.org/Techtipclientaccess.htm

Dave Schnee,
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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