Re: Capturing the Window close in AS400

>  Sushmita wrote:
> Hi, I am working on a research item.  When an application is running
> on an AS400 screen, for e.g some maintenance Menu, if the user closes the
> window by clicking 'X' which is on the top right corner instead of signing
> off, how do we track that the window is closed??
>
> Or can we have a cut off time set which will detect that the system is
> idle for a period of time and close the session?
>
> How can we achieve this?

Sushmita -

I once thought it would be nice to create a command named KILSTPUSR
(Kill Stupid User) that would send 110 volts through the keyboard (in your
case the mouse) - essentially my version of the Darwin awards.

If you are trying to make the AS/400 job end in a more controlled fashion,
you can put code in RPG programs to detect that an error has
occurred on a READ to a workstation file in an RPG program.

If you don't have the source for the application, you'll have to rely
on other means, such as system values, to minimize the amount of time
that the failed interactive job stays active in the subsystem:

QDEVRCYACN   *SYSCTL   Device I/O error action
QDSCJOBITV   *SYSCTL   Time interval before disconnected jobs end

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Research, huh?  Excuse my ranting, BUT:

You work for Tata Consulting Services, the largest Indian consulting firm.

I would think that one or two of those 28,000 consultants would be
able to answer your question as well or BETTER than me.
Don't you have a few AS/400 - iSeries experts at your disposal?

But what would I know?  I'm just a middle-aged dinosaur,
a legacy AS/400 programmer that needs to be retrained,
according to my President - and I'm trying to help YOU!

Regards,

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935