PowerExchange Interfaces for PowerCenter

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Timeout Processing

To detect unsuccessful connection attempts or failed connections, PowerExchange provides the following types of timeouts:

Connection timeouts: Connection timeouts are used to detect an unsuccessful connection attempt. By default, PowerExchange tries to connect for 180 seconds. If a connection cannot be established, PowerExchange issues an error message. You can change the connection timeout interval by using the PWX Override connection attribute.
Heartbeat timeouts: During periods of inactivity, the network threads on the PowerCenter client and PowerCenter Listener send and receive heartbeat data. If no data, including heartbeat data, is sent or received over an interval of 500 seconds, PowerExchange terminates the connection and issues an error message.
Network operation timeouts: You can optionally configure network operation timeouts. When the client-side application thread perceives a single network operation to exceed the specified number of seconds, PowerExchange ends the connection and issues a timeout error message.; By default, network operation timeouts are not enabled, and PowerExchange uses heartbeat processing only to detect send and receive timeouts.

The TIMEOUTS statement in the DBMOVER configuration file is deprecated and no longer has any effect.