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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 5, 2019

To have separate timeout configuration for session expiration of interactive users sessions and back-end batch processes

Based on the recommendation for large metadata import - https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21621492

Inactive Session timeout needs to be configured to longer timeout value (86400 seconds) as metadata import batch processes run for several hours. This also becomes applicable to user interactive sessions.
The customer has highlighted this as a concern  "Lack of proper session expiration" and requested for a way to configure the timeout for user inactive sessions to a shorter duration without impacting their backend batch processes.

Needed by Date Dec 31, 2019
  • Guest
    Aug 16, 2019

    The IIS timeouts are set long enough to make sure that the longest running (batch) sessions do not expire. however, this timeout also gets applied to user sessions which is not as per the banking security standards for OCBC.  Hence they requested for a mechanism to handle user sessions separately.

  • Guest
    Aug 14, 2019

    We could look whether or no the time out could be set longer or be set so that sessions do not expire but there is no way to differentiate between seesions