RE: 5250 telnet keepalive

Albert,

When you say you can't use pass-through, I assume you mean the STRPASTHR 
command.

Have you tried simply using telnet from the first machine to the second?

TELNET secondmachinename

or

TELNET xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx


I can think of no reason why this wouldn't work or couldn't be used.


HTH,

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Albert York
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:43 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 5250 telnet keepalive
> 
> 
> 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
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