Managing the Telnet client

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

The Telnet client enables a TCP/IP user to sign on and use applications on a remote system by using 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 almost anything else you can do.

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 Request for Comments (RFC) 4777. RFC 4777 clients get more control over the Telnet server virtual device on the IBM® i platform through several new parameters on the STRTCPTELN (TELNET) command. The new parameters are:

• Remote virtual display (RMTVRTDSP)
• Remote user (RMTUSER) (including support to use Kerberos ticket for automatic sign-on)
• 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)