Setting session inactivity timeout values for application servers in IBM® OpenPages for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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You can set session inactivity timeout values for OpenPages® application servers.

Procedure

  1. Prepare your environment.
    Do steps 1 to 4 in Configuring OpenPages.
  2. Go to the overrides directory.
    /opt/ibm/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/configDropins/overrides
  3. In a text editor, open the op-apps.xml file and look for the following line: 
    <httpSession cookieSecure="true" invalidationTimeout="90m"/>
  4. Set the invalidationTimeout parameter to the value in minutes. Save and close the file.
  5. Do steps 6 and 7 in Configuring OpenPages.