As for the timeout parm - sorry I wasn't clear in my first note.  The parm is
COMMTIMEOUT sss where ssss is an interval in seconds.  It is coded in the
ADSM.ANRSERVE.OPTIONS file (at least that's the name on our MVS server).  It
is documented in the MVS Server installation manual.

My guys were getting the ANS4017; there was also the ANR0481 message in the
Server's activity log.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
Subject: Re: NW3.11 - TCP/IP connection failures
04-04-96 10:18 AM

On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Jerry Lawson wrote:

> I am NOT a network Guru (or evenclose to it), so perhaps someone who is
closer
> to that status can clarify for us.  However, I was under the problem that a
> major difficulty with TCP/IP as a protocol, was that there was no ability to
r
> esend missing blocks (or are they called packets?).  Protocols such as SNA
pay
> the high overhead of doing this validity checking and retrying, but IP does
> not.

That's why I'm confused.  TCP/IP does resend failed packets (can't
remember what layer does this) and performs some error checking to make
sure the packet is not corrupted.  Putting the TCP issue aside, I'm still
curious about missing blocks.  Think I might call this one in to tech
support -- will let you know what I find out.

BTW, I could not find the option to adjust the timeout.  Is this on the
server or client side?

BTW, to further clarify error:

ANS4017E Session rejected: TCP/IP connection failure
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