Mel,

Thanks for your detailed reply and the scripts.

That is a very ingenious way to determine if a session is active.

What I was hoping was for some way to look at a session, e.g. at its
terminal buffers for example(?) and be able to tell if the last I/O was
, say, yesterday. That way I could manually determine which sessions
would be safe to remove.

On the UNAVAILABLE thing, I am on vanilla 6.0 and after some suggestions
about this thread, I found 4 UNAVAILABLE SYS#1 sessions which stayed
there for 3 days. When I did an ABORTIO, not only did the sessions
disappear but the Ldevs disappeared as well! So I guess they were "hung"
virtual terminals but they WERE taking up HPUSERCOUNT slots.


Cheers,

John Dunlop

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