RE: Save while Active -- SYSTEM21

Chris,

Thanks for bringing that up... Your point is completely valid and accurate. We've had to resort to public floggings on occasion and users have been well trained to not leave posting sessions and maintenance screens unattended...

We don't really have a problem with that any more (knock wood)... More likely a powerfailure will get us than the inactivity timer these days... Your point is well taken and anyone would do well to consider it before actually using the inactivity timer.

Great point...

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Chris Tringham" <ctringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: System 21 Users <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'System 21 Users'" <system21@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [SYSTEM21] Save while Active
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:10:50 +0800

Jeff,

I am not sure about the wisdom of using the Inactivity Timeout facility
on the iSeries in combination with System21.  In fact I have advised
some companies against using it because of the possibility of corrupting
data in S21, especially in the Finance applications.   My concern is
that a 2 hour limit could catch someone who leaves a session running
during the day (especially over lunch).

S21 doesn't handle these terminations very elegantly, and if users were
in the middle of posting a transaction strange things can happen.  At
the very least it creates a record in the System Manager dumps file and
an error report on OSLDUMPS, which someone ought to be investigating.
This can happen for any number of reasons, including PC or network
problems, power being switched off, etc., etc., and I'd prefer to
minimise the amount of work in checking these "errors".

I don't have better suggestions (other than public flogging for any
users who leave sessions running when they leave the office), but I just
thought I'd raise this issue in case anyone else has any bright ideas.

Chris


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