Communications/Transactions Guide and Reference
To set up an RPC/XDR conversation, open the settings for the Proc Dialog
part, then fill in the following fields on the Program Information
page of the notebook:
- Program Number
- The program number the server uses to register with PortMapper.
- Program Version
- The version of the program that the server registers with
Portmapper.
- Procedure Number
- The number of the server procedure the client wants to invoke. This
number corresponds to which function the server will invoke when the request
is received.
Fill in the following fields on the Network Information
page:
- Vendor
- This field is a drop down list box of the RPC vendors currently supported
on the specific platform.
- Network Type
- This field is a drop down list box of the network communications protocol
supported by the selected vendor.
- Server Name
- The symbolic name of the server. If you prefer, you can specify the
numeric IP address of the host instead of a symbolic name.
Fill in the following fields on the Data Attributes page:
- Code page
- The character code page used by the remote system. The default code
page is the current code page for the system.
- Buffer length
- The size of the memory buffer VisualAge allocates for the data sent to and
received from the server. For a proc dialog, the buffer size must be at
least as large as the total size of the record used by the remote program
logic. The default value is 1024.
- Big endian
- A check box that determines the byte order for integers sent to the
partner. If checked, the partner uses a BigEndian format;
otherwise the partner uses LittleEndian format.
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