Inactive timeout

ysrini9 · Post by **ysrini9** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:22 am

Hi All

We have implemented Inactive timeout for 4 hours in DataStage Client session.

Will this prevent the designer jobs being 'locked' when we lose our connection from VPN?

Regards
srini

kumar_s · Post by **kumar_s** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:30 am

The actual use of Inactive timeout is different. If you have you client machine inactive for the specified time, the connection between the client and server will be lost.
For the lock, you need to kill the PID which hangs up.
You can also try with addtitional option to reduce the deadlock timings, though it is for different purpose.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:32 am

When you connect you request an instance to be started of the dscs (DataStage common server) service, which runs as dsapi_server. This manages the connection at the server end, including the connection inactivity timeout. If this triggers the dsapi_server process closes down gracefully, closing any open files and releasing any locks.