Re: Timeout issue on Webfaced applications

Hi there!

Finally someone who reports the exact same issues that are bugging us for at least a year now!

The situation is as you described - IE is just throwing the WebFacing session into the bin. The corresponding iSeries session though keeps still running.

I have invested quite some time into this and although I discovered some issues with embedded malfunctioning JavaScript code this problem still exists.

Believe me this is NOT a time settings issue. We've had situations where colleagues signed on, worked for 2 minutes and got dumped.

Personally I believe this to be a serious IE issue that simply gets overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of the JavaScript code of a single webfaced page. If you dig a little deeper you'll find out that we are talking literally thousands of lines of code here - for more or less every single WebFacing web page.

In the meantime I was even forced to develop a little Java tools for our users that allows them to kill their own zombie jobs - sad. Even more sad was the time I had to spend to find out how to display the corresponding iSeries job number for a WebFacing session. But that's a different story.


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Heinz Sporn

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Von: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Michael Soucy
Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Dezember 2007 06:06
An: Websphere e-list
Betreff: [WDSCI-L] Timeout issue on Webfaced applications

We've recently have come across an issue where users are complaining that some of our webfaced applications have abruptly ended. I haven't personally witnessed it myself but, what I have heard is it appears that the browser is getting closed automatically and the job is being ended on the iSeries. Is this a known problem with Webfacing? Is there some sort of time out parameter we should be looking for? The Webfaced applications were developed using WDSCi V6 and are running on WAS v6.0.

Sincerely,
Michael Soucy