I wonder if you couldn't just issue 'EXEC TELL VMUTIL AT ZVM2 stay up' from VMUTIL (or some such scheduler) every 15 minutes? Roll your own keepalive..
Scott On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Mrohs, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Our network firewalls have a policy of dropping all connections that are > idle for 30 minutes. That is causing our VM-to-VM link to drop and > restart throughout the day. The network guy asked if there is an RSCS > keepalive option, since changing firewall policies is like moving > mountains. TCPIP already had keepalive in effect with INTERVAL 20 , > SENDGARBAGE FALSE. I set SENDGARBAGE TRUE on one of the VMs, and now the > drops happen about every 23 minutes, i.e., I somehow made it worse. ITO > value is at the default setting (100). Does anyone have experience with > this? > > > Ray Mrohs > U.S. Department of Justice > 202-307-6896 >
