Re: Client Access TN5250 drops -- MIDRANGE-L

Have you checked the system value "QINACTITV". You can have *none or 1-300
minutes.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaw, David" <dshaw@spartan.com>
To: "'MIDRANGE-L'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>; "'Ignite400'"
<ign_list@ignite400.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:26 PM
Subject: Client Access TN5250 drops


> About a month ago, we switched from one AS/400 to another.  The reason was
> financial, renewing the lease on the older system was a hit the company
> couldn't afford anymore, so we permanently switched to the disaster
recovery
> mirror.  The machines were almost identical 720's, both at V4R4, same
PTF's
> installed, etc.  The main difference is that the newer machine is at a
> remote site, connected to the rest of the WAN by a dedicated T-1 line,
> whereas the old machine was here at corporate headquarters.  The problem
> we've had since day 1 is that we lose 5250 sessions with some frequency,
> both here and at the remote plants.  Although we had occasional problems
at
> the plants with the old machine, they are much more frequent now, and we
> never had this problem here before.  We've tried installing the latest
cume
> and all group PTF's (as of 2 weeks ago), but that had no impact.  The line
> has been checked six ways from Sunday, with nothing ever showing up.
> Connections to the NT box that the /400 shares the room with are rock
solid,
> although no one connects to it by telnet so the comparison may not be
fair.
>
> We are on V4R4, and the PC's are running a mix of V4R4 Client Access
Express
> and V3R2 Client Access for Win 9x/NT.  The session drops are pretty
random -
> I normally have 4 sessions open, and I usually don't lose all 4 at once,
nor
> do we have many instances of losing more than a couple of users at a time.
> Service pack levels at the PC's don't seem to matter, I'm running the very
> latest, but we have some with pretty ancient packs which are no more nor
> less susceptible.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> There used to be a list of all the latest TCP/IP PTF's available for V4R2,
> is there one for V4R4?  If so, does anyone have a URL or an Information
APAR
> number?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Dave Shaw
> Spartan International, Inc.
> Spartanburg, SC
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