Garbage characters received by socket

There haven't been any takers on the midrange-l list so I'm cross posting here.

We have an application that monitors a socket for application information in an 
XML format.  At varying places in the transmission we receive a string of '@'.  
The program parsing the XML will ignore them and viewing the received XML via a 
browser doesn't have any trouble.

The issue is that we sometimes don't receive the entire XML string.  A 
co-worker is responsible for this process and tells me that there is a 32k 
buffer restriction.  He thinks the '@' string sometimes pushes the data beyond 
the buffer size and we lose it.

We believe the information is being sent from a windows box.

Does this sound right?  Has anyone else encountered this type of behavior using 
sockets in the iSeries?

Rick Chevalier
AmeriCredit ITS
817-525-7178



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