
You may get a good sense for the raw data by using Wireshark to capture the packets and comparing them to an actual TN5250 display showing the same transaction. There is no stdout per se the human readable display panel requires rendering by the client.
TN5250 WINDOWS CLIENT FULL
Likewise, the client does not send back the full display panel including constants and formatting instead, it sends back the input-capable fields. The client needs to understand these formatting instructions in order to properly render the data coming from the host.
TN5250 WINDOWS CLIENT HOW TO
This, as opposed to a character-by-character transmission.Īs a very high level overview, the 5250 protocol describes how to format the display (start/stop field, field attributes like underline and colour) as well as what function keys are acceptable. This family is block mode, meaning the host sends a full display panel out to the client in one transmission, and the client sends a full display panel back to the host in one single transmission. It is intended for the IBM midrange family of 'dumb' green screen terminals. TN5250 is the IBM protocol that rides on top of Telnet. The TN5250J project is a working TN5250 client written in Java. The solution I really want is a way to capture the stdout from the telnet session, but apparently terminal programs like Telnet don't write to stdout. socket buffer is probably empty, wait and try again If (ex.SocketErrorCode = SocketError.WouldBlock ||Įx.SocketErrorCode = SocketError.IOPending ||Įx.SocketErrorCode = SocketError.NoBufferSpaceAvailable) return Encoding.GetEncoding("IBM500").GetString(buf, 0, buffer.Length) byte buf = Encoding.Convert(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), Encoding.UTF8, buffer) Return Encoding.GetEncoding(37).GetString(buffer, 0, buffer.Length) Received += socket.Receive(buffer, offset + received, size - received, SocketFlags.None) If (Environment.TickCount > startTickCount + timeout) Int received = 0 // how many bytes is already received

Int startTickCount = Environment.TickCount Public static string Receive(Socket socket, byte buffer, int offset, int size, int timeout) TextBox1.Text += Receive(SocketClient, buffer, 0, buffer.Length, 10000).Trim() + "\r\n"

remoteEndPoint = new (IPAddress.Parse("address"), 23) Socket SocketClient = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp)
TN5250 WINDOWS CLIENT CODE
Here's some "working" code I found elsewhere. It must not involve buying a third-party library. Please report any bugs in tn5250, preferably to the mailing list, or to the tn5250 SourceForge bug tracker. Have a look at a screenshot for an example. This function is the same as that provided by the 5250 emulator in IBM iSeries Access.

I haven't been able to match it against any of the encodings listed here how can I convert this text to something I can use? UTF8, ASCII anything in a Windows-friendly text format will do. tn5250 is a telnet client for the IBM iSeries and AS/400 that emulates 5250 terminals and printers. I have a connection to IBM i (an AS/400) that communicates over a protocol/encoding called TN5250.
