Will Townsley asked:
> Recently, I set the ctimeout value to 90 for the session parameter of the
> miscellaneous configurator. This works for terminals setting at a colon
> prompt and inactive for the 90 minutes but it does not work for a terminal
> setting idle with a menu displayed. The other disadvantage is that it keeps
> logging off the operator console.
>
> Are there alternatives?

1. Modify your menu program to do a timed read.  If the timer expires, have
the program set a JCW and exit.  Modify the UDC the users use to run the
program to test the JCW -- if the timer expired, log them off.

2. Create a program for the console that prompts for a password and train
your operators to run this program whenever they walk away from the console.
This gives you the advantage of added security, as well as preventing the CI
timeout.

3. You could have a UDC which checks the logon LDEV, and if it's 20 sets the
HPTIMEOUT variable to 0, but I like solution number 2 better.

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