Re: Communication required by SEP dropped

Hi Paul,

On the IBM i, can you check the values QINACTITV and QINACTMSGQ?

If the value specified for QINACTITV is not *NONE, or is 15 minutes, then the action in QINACTMSGQ will occur which is *ENDJOB.

Yes, your SEP job may be "active" but when a client is running a server job, from the server side the job may appear to be inactive.

Generally we set our QINACTITV to *NONE on Development boxes.

Hope this help!

Steve Ferrell
www.helpsystems.com



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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Paul Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 6:24 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Communication required by SEP dropped

There is an ENDDBGSVR job scheduled to run at 8:30pm every night, but that runs at 8:30pm every night and not before or after. I've checked and this job only ran once yesterday, and not so far today (as expected).

When you say "robot" do you mean the specific robot tool that can be purchased, or generic scheduled jobs/processes? We do not have the robot tool, nor any similar external applications in use on our IBM i.

I've done a few tests this morning, and it is exactly 15 minutes between setting up the SEP and when the popup message comes up telling me the connection has dropped. This doesn't sound like a scheduled process, but a keepalive/timeout issue. I haven't been able to reproduce a debug session also timing out, but that could be because I didn't give it enough time between keypresses (I have a job to do, too :) ).


-Paul.


On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 16:32, Mike Hockings <hockings@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you have some robot set up to end the QB5* jobs on a schedule maybe?

Mike

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From: Paul Bailey <PabloMotte+Midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
Client for System i & iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2019/01/15 05:25
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Communication required by SEP dropped
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Hi,

We've moved to a new IBM i box (also upgrading to v7.3 in the process)
and we were having problems where RDi would close connections every
few minutes. We fixed that by changing the CHGTCPA TCPKEEPALV setting to 5.

However, we are still getting an error whenever we use Service Entry
Points for debugging. After around 20 minutes after creating a new SEP
we get a popup saying "Communication required by Service Entry Point
function dropped. Service Entry Point(s) set by user BAILEYP at server
DEV will be removed." This also drops the debug session I might be in
at the time, although this might be an additional timeout/keepalive setting I'm missing.

Does anyone know what setting might be causing this timeout? Is it in
RDi, or is it another setting related to TCP/IP comms on the IBM i?


Regards,
Paul.
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