Re: TN5250 weirdness

We've got a customer experiencing session crashes with our emulator. And
they've called in IBM to look at it.

The connections are, so far as I know, all Secured TN5250.

The IBM representative saw indications that we were sending a
70-kilobyte(!!) encrypted packet, which they assumed was an insanely huge
response to a "save" command.

We've been having them do buffer-dumps, using diagnostic functions built
into our emulator. I've gone through ten of them so far, NOTHING has (at
least in unencrypted form) approached even a 2kb transmission: the longest
save response so far has been 1132 bytes, and the longest read-MDT-fields
response has been 1051 bytes.

Which is to say that the crashes have occurred on both save commands and
read-MDT-fields commands, and in one case, the timestamps tell me that the
connection crashed BEFORE the emulator sent a response to the last chain
received from the host.

I'm stumped. Anybody know of something that could make an AS/400 think it
was getting a 70k packet?

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JHHL
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