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Target Server Environment Communication Styles

The Client Manager supports three distinct styles of communications to target servers using the TCP/IP Sockets protocol. You can configure the three styles using the check boxes on the Sockets Server Configuration – Details dialog. The state of the check boxes depends on the target server environment requirements.

All the three styles use the same features of the underlying TCP/IP protocol. Two of the styles differ in the length of the life span of the connection, the third is how the Common Format Buffer (CFB) data is packaged.