Re: Inactive Time Out

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:44 AM 3/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
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>Does anyone know if it it is possible to override QINACTITV by user or
>group or some other method.
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Create a message queue to get the messages, and change the system value for QINACTMSGQ to that message queue.  Then you can hang a message handling program in that message queue, and decide by user, workstation, or whatever scheme seems reasonable.

Here are the two pages from by System Values handout on this subject:

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> Inactive Jobs:                                                  
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> Name:               QINACTITV                                        V1 R2.0 
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> Description:        Inactive job time out Interval                       
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> IBM Initial Value:  '*NONE' 
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> Lower Limit Value:  '5'     (minutes) 
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> Upper Limit Value:  '300' 
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> Length & Type:      Character:  10   
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> Comments:           When time out occurs, message CPI1126 will be sent to the message queue specified by QINACTMSGQ, unless that value is set to '*ENDJOB' or '*DSCJOB'. 
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> *NONE indicates that no time out validation will be performed. 
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> Source remote sign-on jobs are excluded. 
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> User must have *ALLOBJ and *SECADM authority to change this system value. 
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> Message ID:         CPI1126 
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> Message . . . . :   Job &3/&2/&1 has not been active. 
> Cause . . . . . :   Job &3/&2/&1 running in subsystem &4 has not been active 
> for at least &5 minutes as specified by system value QINACTITV.  The group 
> job return code is &6 where: 
> -- 0 indicates the job is not a group job. 
> -- 1 indicates the job is a group job. 
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> Field    Data Type    Length    Field description              
> &1        *CHAR        10      Job name 
> &2        *CHAR        10      User profile name 
> &3        *CHAR         6      Job number 
> &4        *CHAR        10      Subsystem name 
> &5        *CHAR        10      Minutes specified in QINACTITV 
> &6        *CHAR         1      Return code 
> &7        *CHAR        53      Unused 
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> Name:               QINACTMSGQ                                       V1 R2.0 
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> Description:        Message queue for Inactive job messages              
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> IBM Initial Value:  '*ENDJOB' 
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> Length & Type:      Character:  20   
> Value is a list. 
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> Valid Values and their Meanings:                                    Effective: 
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> '*ENDJOB'     will cause the job (including secondary and group jobs) to be ended. To minimize the performance hit, the job's priority is lowered by 10 and is changed to PURGE(*YES) TIMESLICE(100). 
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> '*DSCJOB'     will cause the job (including secondary and      V1 R3.0 
> group jobs) to be disconnected. 
> 'msgq lib'    Qualified message queue name and library. When time out occurs, a message will be sent to this message queue. 
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> Comments:           User must have *ALLOBJ and *SECADM authority to change this system value. 
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There's an example of how to code for this in the COMMON utility library. Although the coding is not complex, it is not trivial either.


Al






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