Increasing the DSN timeout may adversely affect your system and it may not be apparent. Be very cautious when changing this parm.
It was mentioned that this error does not always occur. The reason for this is that the name is resolved in a DNS that occurs before the problematic DNS server. To cause the error message, you can ping a name that does not exist. This can also be sporadic for names that are dynamically added/removed in the DNS server. You may have times when the name does not exist in the expected DNS server. During this time, that name will have have this error. Products sometimes will terminate if they don't start within reasonable amount of time. If one of those products has multiple connections that fails with this error, then increasing the timeout could push the startup time past the startup time threshold. Even if your products don't terminate, you may still have a started task manager running. For tasks it manages, there is a startup time threshold. Depending on the action, it could cause the product to restart. This often occurs during IPL so you may drastically increase IPL time or you may be missing critical started tasks. Automation could also be a problem. Some sites ping various destinations to ensure they are still active. I've seen some scheduled as often as every 10 seconds. The extra delay could cause a backlog of automation exec's and cause critical automation to be delayed. Jon Perryman On Thursday, May 8, 2014 5:08 AM, Keith Smith <keith.sm...@shawinc.com> wrote: I have doubled the amount of time that it gathers attempts to calculate >the percentage *and the time it allows for an attempt to be considered a >failure.* > >On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Keith Smith <keith.sm...@shawinc.com> wrote: > >> I have had the same problem. I am sure it is network related but my >> network folks say nothing has changed... to that I say... why did it just >> start occurring without any change anywhere. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
