Xsockets tool

The Xsockets tool is one of the many tools that are shipped with the iSeries™. All tools are stored in the QUSRTOOL library. The Xsockets tool allows programmers to interactively work with socket APIs.

The Xsockets tool allows you to do the following tasks:

• Learn about the socket APIs
• Re-create specific scenarios interactively to help debug

• Configure Xsockets
  There are two versions of the tool that can be created. The first version is integrated with iSeries client. The integrated version is completely created by the first set of instructions. The second version uses a Web browser as the client.
• Configure Xsockets to use a Web browser
  The instructions here allow you to enable the Xsockets tool to be accessed through a Web browser. You can implement these instructions multiple times on the same system to create different server instances. This allows multiple versions to run at the same time on different listening ports.
• Use Xsockets
  There are now two ways to work with the Xsockets tool. You can work with the tool from the integrated client or work with the tool in a Web browser.
• Delete objects created by the Xsockets tool
  You may need to delete objects that are created by the Xsockets tool. The program named TSODLT is created by the installation program to remove the objects created by the tool (except the library and the program TSODLT) or remove the source members used by the Xsockets tool, or both.
• Customize Xsockets
  You can change the Xsockets tool by adding additional support for the socket network routines, for example, inet_addr().