Re: Using STRPCCMD from Bosanova emulation

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DeLong, Eric wrote:
> Could it be XP's firewall?   

Sorry... firewall is impossible.   STRPCCMD just sends a specially 
crafted screen to your 5250 emulator.  It's just a regular screen, like 
you would create with DDS, except that there's a special code in it that 
tells the 5250 emulator to execute it as a command instead of displaying 
it to the user.

But, it's just another screen.  It couldn't possibly be blocked by a 
firewall (unless the emulator itself is blocked...  but that would be a 
much more serious and obvious symptom)

Contrast this with RUNRMTCMD -- which does NOT run through a 5250 
emulator, but has it's own separate TCP conversation on it's own 
separate port.  RUNRMTCMD will often have firewall problems.  Not an 
issue with STRPCCMD.