New feature suggestion : a designer procedure which, when included in the screen, actions whenever there is screen activity

Thu Jul 26 18:24:19 CDT 2007

Thank you Gentlemen... I will discuss the issues/tools/suggestions
raised with my supervisor.

We would love to purchase more licenses Bob. Will COGNOS have a "garage
sale" one day?   ;-)

cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob.Deskin at Cognos.COM [mailto:Bob.Deskin at Cognos.COM] 
Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 4:27 AM
To: atla38 at dsl.pipex.com; Fernando Olmos; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: New feature suggestion : a designer procedure which, when
included in the screen, actions whenever there is screen activity

If you're looking for something that times out QUICK, the QKGO terminal
time-out is supposed to do that based on a prompt being made and no
input happening after a period of time.

As well, on UNIX and Windows, there are two types of time out for Axiant
thin-client users to check whether there is activity from the user and
whether the client session is still active.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Boyle [mailto:atla38 at dsl.pipex.com] 
Sent: July 26, 2007 1:58 PM
To: Deskin, Bob; fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: New feature suggestion : a designer procedure which, when
included in the screen, actions whenever there is screen activity

New feature suggestion : a designer procedure which, when included in
the screen, actions whenever there is screen activity.

A simple application of this would be to enable a current timestamp for
the pid of the quick process to be written to a file, and make it much
easier to determine which quick processes have been inactive for a
certain amount of time, and subsequently either logged out or killed
etc....

  _____  

From: powerh-l-bounces+atla38=dsl.pipex.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+atla38=dsl.pipex.com at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of Deskin, Bob
Sent: 26 July 2007 14:36
To: fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Question about auto logout in QKGO file

I just tested this in 8.41E (Windows). It's generic and should work the
same way on all platforms. If not, please report a bug.

QUICK keeps an internal count if there's a QKGO Timeout setting. I don't
know how often it's checked, but I know that it issues a warning message
a few seconds before the actual time-out. For example, I set it to 30
seconds and got a warning 7 seconds before the time-out. At the time-out
it exits QUICK (doing the appropriate rollbacks and backouts). The basis
is whether there's any input from the user. If there's none, QUICK times
out.

Bob

PS You could buy more licenses :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au
Sent: July 26, 2007 12:35 AM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: Question about auto logout in QKGO file

How does the QKGO file's timeout feature work? 
Is the QKGO file (say 20 mins) checking frequently, to kick people out
if they've left a QUICK session online for longer than 20 minutes? Does
it only kick them out AFTER they try to change screens, for example?

The issue we're having is we're running out of powerhouse licenses due
to the number of users trying to access the system from a powerhouse
main menu. However, there are people that leave their sessions on the
screen in this main menu, without logging out and so it books a license.
As soon as they go back and try and do something QKGO seems to kick in
and therefore logs them out, basically saying "...uh uh.. Sorry... you
took too long to action your screen". We want QKGO to do this anyway,
and kick them out of the screen whether they are using it or not.

Thanks 

Kind regards, 

--- 
Fernando Olmos 
Senior Analyst Programmer 
HPA 
Direct: 03 9217 5411 
Fax: 03 9217 5166 
 <http://www.hpa.com.au> www.hpa.com.au 

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