RE: QINACTITV on TELNET sessions?

Yes thanks, John. It was a combination of the setting of these 2
parameters. The key, from a previous post, was to set the TIMMRKTIMO
significantly greater (3 to 5 minutes) than INACTTIMO. I am now happily
annoying my users again.

Dave Kahn, TCO, Kazakstan
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kahn@tengizchevroil.com   (to November 25)
dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk (from November 26)

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@lns400.com]
>Sent:  Friday, 14 November, 1997 12:42
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       RE: QINACTITV on TELNET sessions?
>
>Dave,
>
>At 09:35 PM 11/8/97 +0500, you wrote:
><snip>
>>
>>On a related note, we are just switching to the dreaded NT desktops and
>>are using the Client Access 5250 emulator over Telnet. The sessions are
>>not timing out after they reach the Telnet inactivity timeout limit. Has
>>anyone else experienced this, and do they know why? The Rumba sessions
>>under Win 3.1 always used to timeout correctly.
>
>
>This is sort of an odd bird, but if you set the telnet inactivity
>(INACTTIMO) to a value greater than 600 seconds, it _appears_ not to work.
>That's because the parameter just below INACTTIMO on the CHGTELNA command,
>TIMMRKTIMO causes the /400 to send a 'keep alive' message to the telnet
>partner every 600 seconds (the default).  That keep alive message seams to
>cause the telnet INACTTIMO interval to get reset.
>
>If you set INACTTIMO value to, say 3600, and then the TIMMRKTIMO value to
>something greater than 3600, your telnet sessions will time-out.
>
>They time-out ugly though.  Instead of reverting to the signon screen, my
>Rumba sessions go blank with the curser at 1/2.  A simple disconnet and
>reconnect causes a signon screen to reappear.
>
>hth,
>
>jte
>
>
>
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