On Wednesday, 12/12/2007 at 03:51 EST, "Gentry, Stephen" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have an auditor who wants to know if VM (or VM:Secure if you have it)
> has an idle time out feature.  For example, if a user hasn't done
> anything in their VM session for x amount of time, they get forced off.
> VM has a DISCONNECT_TIMEOUT parameter as part of the FEATURES statement
> in the SYSTEM CONFIG file. But I think this is for a user who is in DSC
> mode. The user is then forced off after the defined time has expired.
> Does anyone know if there is such a feature?

There is nothing in CP that will do that.  There are inactivity timers in, 
for example, FTP and Telnet.  For telnet sessions, look at the INACTIVE 
timer in InternalClientParms.  This will, IIRC, trip the 
Disconnect_Timeout wire.

Unfortunately there's no way to set the INACTIVE timer on a per-user 
basis.

Your performance monitor, as Marcy notes, is the best place to make that 
kind of decision anyway, since it has the best knowledge of whether the 
user is actually doing work (burning CPU) rather than depending on console 
traffic.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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