It may not make your problems go away completely, but there are a couple of
parameters in the client options file dsm.opt that permit you to change the
communications timeout value from a default of 60 seconds to say 300 (or 5
minutes). Try COMMTIMEOUT, or something like that (check the docs).

Mackey Morgan



ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 01-23-98 12:41:04 PM
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Subject: Re: ANS4017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure


Thanks, Brett. We tried halving the defaults for the TCPBuffSize and
TCPWindowSize from 8 and 16 to 4 and 8 respectively. We also tried doubling
the defaults to 16 and 32 respectively. No luck. We'll try the version 3
client next. That's a great feature!

At 10:07 AM 1/22/98 -0800, you wrote:
>You should try the various suggestions already mentioed here on the forum.
>In addition, the Version 3 client has the ability to "retry, continuing
>where it left off".  This means that if you lose the communication session,
>the client will try to re-establish the connection with the server, and
>continue restoring the files from where it stopped.
>
>But it is preferable to solve any server/client issues if you can.
>
>Cheers,
>Brett
>
>>We've been attempting a restore for a couple of days on a NetWare client
>>that keeps halting with the message "ANS4017E Session rejected: TCP/IP
>>connection failure." The ethernet segment has a lot of traffic and we've
>>seen other communications problems, so I'm guessing that's the cause. Does
>>anyone have suggestions on how to stop the client from halting the restore?
>>A setting in dsm.opt perhaps? Here are the version details:
>>
>>Server: MVS Server Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.10
>>Client: Version 2, Release 1, Level 0.7
>>
>>We're using the default settings in dsm.opt and the comm method of TCP/IP.
>>
>>Any help will be much appreciated.
>>
>>        Dave
>>
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