Manage the Telnet client

You can start a Telnet client session using different emulation types. This section also explains how to establish a cascaded Telnet session.

The iSeries™ Telnet client allows an iSeries TCP/IP user to sign on to and use applications on a remote system with a Telnet server application. Telnet allows you to log on to the remote computer and use it as if you were connected directly to it. You can run programs, change configurations, or do just about anything else you could do if you were sitting at the remote computer itself.

Telnet makes your computer act like a mainframe computer's workstation. In other words, when using Telnet, your computer (the client) pretends to be, or emulates, a terminal directly attached to the remote computer (the Telnet server).

The Telnet client also supports RFC 2877. RFC 2877 clients get more control over the Telnet server virtual device on the iSeries through several new parameters on the STRTCPTELN (TELNET) command. The new parameters are:

Table 1. New parameters on the STRTCPTELN command
  • Remote virtual display (RMTVRTDSP)
  • Remote user (RMTUSER)
  • Remote password (RMTPWD) (including support for new 128-byte passwords if the Telnet Server supports them)
  • Remote password encryption (RMTPWENC) (including DES7 and SHA1 encryption)
  • Remote initial program (RMTINLPGM)
  • Remote initial menu (RMTINLMNU)
  • Remote current library (RMTCURLIB)
  • Remote keyboard type (RMTKBDTYPE)
  • Remote character set (RMTCHRSET)
  • Remote code page (RMTCODPAG)
Parent topic: Telnet