Pat It would be incorrect to say that the concept of the "socket" is foreign to the Pascal API - but it's almost the case.
Searching for the word "socket" in the Pascal chapter of the CS IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference manual and ignoring the "hits" from the bottom of alternate pages, the remaining "hits" seem to indicate that the Pascal API uses the word "socket" as a sort of shorthand for the IP address-port combination, either "local" or "foreign" - and nothing else. I get the impression the term "Pascal language API" or simply "Pascal API" is preferred to "the Pascal socket interface." There's a pretty damning note at the end of the first section: <quote> Note: The Pascal API will not be enhanced for IPv6 support. </quote> Thus "functional stabilisation" applies to any programming element shipped by the z/OS Communications Server IP component which continues to use the Pascal API - and that includes our well-examined TSO TELNET command. Chris Mason On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:14:27 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:04:07 -0700, Gibney, Dave ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, I'm already TLS from my workstation to the original logon of >>TSO, and then I at least am so far always using the Hipersocket >>connection, so I see no security lapse. I don't have any good reason >to >>check it out using the path out of the CEC and back. >> It does seem strange though if TLS isn't supported as you say. >>... > >I'm joining this conversation far too late to add my own "Does so!" >and "Can too!", but I did confirm the TELNET load module in the 1.8 >SEZALOAD has an eyecatcher > VS PASCAL RELEASE 2.0 06/13/06 15:31:05 >Still Pascal, and "recently" recompiled. > >I suspect that the developers would redo this client if there people >started needing it, but with the current need, why bother. > >I don't know when SSL support was added to the Tn3270 server, >but I'm sure it was long after the client was ported to MVS, and I >bet the client has been functionally stablized since it was ported >(effectively, if not explicitly). > >AT-TLS woun't help, either. It does not support the Pascal socket >interface. > >BTW, NetView for z/OS also provides a Tn3270 client. It also does >not support SSL or TLS. > >Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
