One final piece of advice, use the bash shell in that Terminal view
because the backspace does not work nicely using the default shell.
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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [WDSCI-L] Interactive SSH client for RDi?
Date: Wed, Jan 6, 2021 10:38 AM
SWEEEEEEET! I thought for sure there was such a thing, but I just
couldn't find it. Now I have a small window on my workbench with a 5250
session and an SSH session, and I just flip tabs between them. Very
nice.
On 1/6/2021 8:58 AM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> Personally, I don't like the QSHELL connection. Take a look at the
terminal view. Make sure you use the right one though. Windows -> Show
View. There may be a Terminals entry on that screen, but that is not
what we want. Windows -> Show View -> Other -> Terminal. Then set up
your connection.
>
> On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:08 -0600, Joe Pluta wrote:
>
> Hello everyone! I was just trying to do something I thought would be
>
> simple. As part of my foray into MKDocs (which rocks big time, by the
>
> way), I have been running KiTTY as an SSH client and everything works
>
> fine. I use RDi to edit my MKDocs source (just a bunch of text files
in
>
> the IFS) and then I use KiTTY to run the MKDocs build command and then
I
>
> run a green screen CPY command to move the objects from the MKDocs
>
> target to my Apache server instance. All is well, but I wanted to try
>
> to stay inside of RDi for everything. For the 5250 session, that was
>
> easy; I right click on the connection and take the Host Connection
>
> Emulator option. Boom, up comes a 5250 session. But then I try to do
>
> the same thing for Launch Shell, I get an error:
>
>
> Connection to QShell server timed out.
>
> Check firewall and open ports 2850, 2851 and 2852.
>
>
> Since I'm on a VPN, I don't know why I'd have ports disabled, so I
tried
>
> Verify Connection, and it told me the callback to RSE daemon failed,
>
> because the callback both to my IP address on port 4301 and to my
fully
>
> qualified PC name both failed. So before I go back to my operations
>
> folks, I just wondered if someone could tell me what these errors
might
>
> mean. I think it's saying that the IBM i can't see my PC, but is that
>
> necessary to start an SSH session? As noted, KiTTY works.
>
>
> And also, in the interests of trying to find another solution to the
>
> issue, does anyone know of a different SSH client plugin that works in
>
> RDi? The last one I tried (Remote System Explorer) didn't like my RDi
>
> configuration but happily told me it would uninstall the Software
>
> Development Platform if I so desired. That would be less than optimal,
>
> so I'm on the lookout for another SSH client.
>
>
> At the end of the day, using KiTTY is fine. I just was looking for a
>
> way to do everything from RDi.
>
>
>
>
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