Timeout in Report frames

Bruce Liebenberg wrote:
> 
> Graham Harrison wrote:
> >
> > Bruce Liebenberg wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a way to implement timeouts in report frames in ABF?
> > >
> > > We have a couple of ABF applications that allow the user to display
> > > reports on the screen (using report frames with 'Output File' set to
> > > 'terminal').  All this works fine, except that the timeouts set in the
> > > ABF frames do not carry through to the report frames.  If a user
> > > displays a report on the screen and leaves it, no timeout occurs.
> > >
> > > We are using Ingres 6.4/05/02 on Solaris 2.4.
> >
> > Set the timeout either:
> > (a)     in the .startup section of the report
> > (b)     in a shell script, which will act as the interface to the report
> > which you call
> >
> > I think that it is not working because the report is called as a separate
> > session, with session defaults used.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Graham Harrison
> > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gpharrison
> > Member of the HTML Writers Guild
> > Netscape DevEdge Member
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but could you tell me what command I could
> use.  As I understand it, form timeouts can only be set from within the
> Forms Runtime System (FRS), for example "SET_FORMS FRS (TIMEOUT = 300)"
> in 4GL.  Unless I've missed something, and I hope I have because that
> would solve my problem instantly.
> 
> --
> Bruce Liebenberg            
> Metro Electricity
> Johannesburg

In the shell script, set 
ING_SET='set lockmode session TIMEOUT=60' ( or use II_EMBED_SET )
export ING_SET

The resulting child sessios will have timeout set to 60 seconds.
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Graham Harrison
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