Its strange to me that Universe does not have this feature built in to the INPUT statement...
Something like: INPUT user_input TIMEOUT 30 Maybe I have missed something in the UV docs, but, I never could find anything built in. If I remember correctly other flavors of MV have had this for a while. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM, <mhilb...@ppcsoftware.com> wrote: > Check INPUTIF, this will return a value if the input buffer has something. > If after 2 minutes of checking INPUTIF you have nothing it's because the > user isn't active. If you do a LOOP with INPUTIF inside be careful to put > an RQM or something similar in the loop. > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:26:38 -0700 (PDT), Don Robinson wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> We are running Universe 10.1 on AIX with about 500 users. We have a >> problem with users opening up a record which puts a lock on it and >> just letting it sit at the INPUT statement for a long time. >> >> Most of the locking within the application does not use the LOCKED >> clause so when a second person needs the locked record, their session >> waits. >> >> What is the best way to detect the user hasn't typed anything for a >> period of time, say 2 minutes? This needs to be simple as we have no >> desire to rewrite the application! >> >> IIRC, some other MV systems have a timeout on the INPUT but I can't >> find anything about this in the UV manual. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Don Robinson >> ______________________________**_________________ >> U2-Users mailing list >> U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >> http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/**mailman/listinfo/u2-users<http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users> > -- John Thompson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
