4.3 Defining the Local Gateway
The local (IMS) gateway defines the access points that remote gateways can use to connect to the IMS gateway.
The local gateway can be defined as having a single physical IP address and port number, or multiple physical IP addresses and/or port numbers. Furthermore, each physical port can be defined as accepting one or more concurrent inbound TCP/IP connections from remote gateways.
One or more GATEWAY TYPE=LOCAL statements must
exist in the configuration file to define the local gateways. Each
GATEWAY TYPE=LOCAL statement defines a specific IP
address and port number through which TMA TCP for IMS accepts
inbound connection requests from remote gateways. Inbound
connections are used by a remote gateway to send client requests to
the IMS gateway for processing by IMS server transactions. Each
local gateway (as defined by a GATEWAY TYPE=LOCAL
statement) must have a unique logical machine ID (a symbolic name
used to identify a gateway).
Remote systems attempting to establish an inbound session with the local gateway can optionally be required to supply a valid account ID and/or password.
For sample configurations, refer to the Example Configuration Files