RE: Toolbox connection problem

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For Connection Refused problems, I ususally start by running a packet trace
on the Windows box using Ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com) and seeing
exactly what packets are going back and forth.  Is there a firewall between
the Windows box and the iSeries?  It could be preventing the connection.
Also, you can possibly turn on some of the toolbox tracing to see better
what is going inside there.

HTH,
Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: java400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Toolbox connection problem
> 
> Another "baby step" into the Toolbox:
> We've taken some code I wrote on one AS/400, running locally 
> and accessing
> files (2 files of identical format) locally through Toolbox calls, and
> incorporated it into a program that runs on a Windoze box, 
> and accesses a
> different AS/400 through a network connection. It gets as far as
> instantiating a SequentialFile, and getting an 
> AS400FileRecordDescription
> on a file (I haven't yet inserted a diagnostic to determine 
> whether the
> record description comes back valid), but then it starts throwing
> exceptions, trying to do a retrieveRecordFormat() on the record
> dscription, and it fails to open the files.
> 
> The files are there. In the library where they're expected to be.
> 
> The initial exception appears to be a "Connection Refused" at the
> retrieveRecordFormat.
> 
> WRKTCPSTS shows that the "as-signon" and "as-svrmap" servers 
> on the target
> box have been recently accessed, but not the as-cent, 
> as-data, as-dtaq,
> as-file, as-netprt, as-rmtcmd, as-netd, as-tran, or as-vrtp.
> 
> About all the code I can share is:
> . . .
> System.out.println("$$$ Filename = " + fileName.getPath());
> SequentialFile file = new SequentialFile(as400, fileName.getPath());
> . . .
> System.out.println("$$$ Archive = " + archName.getPath());
> SequentialFile arch = new SequentialFile(as400, archName.getPath());
> AS400FileRecordDescription recDes = new 
> AS400FileRecordDescription(as400,
> fileName.getPath());
> try {
>     RecordFormat recFmt = recDes.retrieveRecordFormat()[0];
>     System.out.println("$$$ Format = " + recFmt.getName());
>     file.setRecordFormat(recFmt);
>     arch.setRecordFormat(recFmt);
>     file.open(SequentialFile.READ_WRITE, 1,
> SequentialFile.COMMIT_LOCK_LEVEL_NONE);
>     arch.open(SequentialFile.WRITE_ONLY, 1,
> SequentialFile.COMMIT_LOCK_LEVEL_NONE);
>     System.out.println("event file is open:" + file.isOpen());
>     System.out.println("event archive file is open:" + arch.isOpen());
> . . .
> 
> Anybody know what could be going wrong?
> 
> --
> JHHL
> 
> 
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