On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:25:23 -0600, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark T. Regan, K8MTR >> >> The problem with using multiple emulator sessions is that if >> you lose your network connection to the mainframe, you also >> lose all your tn3270 sessions too. ... > >While YMMV, I believe the risk of network connection loss is >sufficiently low that I remain a fan of multiple session windows. I >typically have six or seven session windows open concurrently. >... In my opinion (for what it's worth) the issue is more than the inconvenience of your lost sessions. It is also the error recovery done by the application when there is an outage. The recovery done in a session manager is typically much lighter than the recovery done in a transaction processor - no transaction backout to do. And (assuming multipe sessions per user) there are fewer sessions to terminate. If you are talking hundreds (or thousands) of sessions a session manager can save you LOTS of cycles during a major network outage. And if the transaction processor's recovery is not robust enough, the session manager can save you from corrupted databases, too. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
