RE: users closing the 5250 window (iSeries Access) orphans the session, (not signing off from IBM i)

Note sure if you got a reply on this, but I have been reading up on i5
security and came across this in a redbook.

NOTE: When a Qshell interactive session is active, the QINACTITV system
value is not in effect; that is the job does NOT time out.

Any of your stuff using Qshell anywhere? Probably a long shot but thought
I'd bring it up.

Neill

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Subject: users closing the 5250 window (iSeries Access) orphans the session,
(not signing off from IBM i)

At our company most people go home by 17:00.
At 23:00 each night before we run these commands:
ENDSBS QINTER
ENDHOSTSVR SERVER(*DATABASE) \
ENDPJ SBS(QUSRWRK) PGM(QZDASOINIT) OPTION(*IMMED)
Then we run sales invoicing and other financial jobs in a dedicated mode
without the risk of some jobs locking files.

It surprises me how some QINTER sessions are still active at 23:00 even
though the user left at 16:00, probably closing the 5250 window (iSeries
Access) without actually signing off from the system. As we are a JD
Edwards World environment, users always have programs J98ININTA,
J98INITV, and P00MENU in their call stack.

At 17:00 I set system value QINACTITV to 30 minutes from 300 minutes, so
I would expect inactive jobs to end by 18:00 or so.
Yet these orphaned jobs are still active at 23:00.
ENDSBS QINTER does kill these orphaned jobs but I wonder why these
orphaned jobs stay active till 23:00

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This message appears when inactive jobs end due to inactivity time
reached.
Message ID . . . . . . : CPI1127

Date sent . . . . . . : 07/16/09 Time sent . . . . . . :
19:19:39


Message . . . . : All jobs at work station QPADEV000K ended.



Cause . . . . . : All jobs at work station QPADEV000K have been
ended, since
the amount of time specified in system value QINACTITV has ended, and
all
jobs at the work station have not been active during the time
specified by
the system value QINACTITV.