RE: Accessing another system's TELNET port from a batch job?

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh!  I forgot about secure shell (ssh).  Probably the best answer.  Search
archive.midrange.com for discussions (have a look in the WIKI too) for ssh;
it's been discussed here many times.

Dennis Lovelady
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> Short of writing my own headless TELNET client, is there a way for a
> batch job on one system to access the TELNET port on another system (it
> can be as simple as just a sign-on), in order to notify the other
> system
> of an event?
>
> Or some other simple event notification, calling a program remotely?
>
> I can do this with the FTP port, of course, but the FTP port on the
> target system is normally kept closed when not in use. And likewise, I
> could do it by opening a socket on a proprietary server, but I'd have
> to
> write one of those.
>
> The target machine does *not* have "Host Servers" running on it.