RE: timeout question for rpg/dds but archives do not really answe r my question

Mark,

You might want to change the QINACTITV system value. The you can wait as
long as you want.

Albert York

         -----Original Message-----
        From:   Mark A. Manske [mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:17 PM
        To:     RPG400-L (E-mail)
        Subject:        timeout question for rpg/dds but archives do not
really
        answer my question

        Or I am just simply too stupid and stubborn to see what is going on
-

        Here is what I have -
        A program that will run 24/7 waiting for a scanning device to feed
it
        a scan into the program - using write/read since I already knew that
        exfmt does not work with record wait;  with the dds as a wait record
of
        7195 -
        just under our system setting of device auto shut down value, it
does not
        work, I have the
        invite keyword and the frcdta keyword in the dds, along with a dummy
assume
        record in the format.   But if I downplay the timeout to say 10
seconds for
        testing,
        nothing happens.

        Here is what I need to happen, wait for up to 7195 seconds for user
input,
        then
        do a dummy process to keep the session "alive", however I cannot use
a
        dataq method due to the fact that once the program is scanning
product,
        it is coming across a conveyer belt and I need the program to
process the
        scans at roughly two per second. The examples I looked over with
dataq
        at least appeared to wait on the dataq, then read the screen, and if
nothing
        was done, then do another read forever until the user entered
something,
        which
        in my case would mean the system would shut down the sessions after
2 hours

        I want the screen to wait for input and process it in micro-seconds,
        otherwise
        I want it to simply not auto shut down once it has been idle for the
2
        hours -

        Am I just dense/missing something, or is this not the way to do
this?

        TIA


        Mark A. Manske
        Fleming CSD - Plymouth Division
        Sr. Project Lead
        Phone      (763) 545-3700 extension 273
        Web Site  http://www.minter-weisman.com
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