TN5250 Service Template

The TN5250 service provides 5250 gateway access to an SNA network using the TN5250 protocol. The attributes reflect the accessible iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ services and load information available on the server.

• Release = <release>

  This is the Version and Release of the advertising commserver.

• Protocol = <protocol>
  One or more protocols supported by the server providing this service. The defined value is:

  IP

  Server supports connections over IP (TCP/IP or UDP/IP)

• Platform = <platform>
  This is the network operating system platform underlying the advertised service. The defined values are:

  IW

  Server uses the IntranetWare network operating system

  NT

  Server uses the Microsoft® NT Operating system

• Server Name = <server name>

  This is the name of the server that was configured during installation.

• AS400 Name = <host name>

  This is the name of the iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ host to which this service registration applies.

• Load = <INTEGER>

  This is the load balancing quantity to use in determining the least loaded communications server. The range of valid values is an integer 0 to 100.

• Security = <security>
  This field will contain the security technique supported by the server. The actual values are as follows:

  NONE

  This server has no explicit security technique

  SSLV3

  This server supports Secure Socket Layer Version 3 standard

• Ciphersuites = <CipherSpec>,

  <CipherSpec>, ...
  <CipherSpec>

  Identifies the cipher specifications supported by this server. The defined values are:

  • NULL_NULL
  • NULL_MD5
  • NULL_SHA
  • RC4_MD5_EXPORT
  • RC4_MD5_US
  • RC4_SHA_US
  • RC2_MD5_EXPORT
  • DES_SHA_EXPORT
  • TRIPLE_DES_SHA_US
• Function = <function>

  This field will contain the TN5250 functions supported by the server. There are no functions defined at the current time.

• RFC1205

  The RFC numbers that document features supported by the service. Current RFC's for TN5250 include 1205.