Sessions, timeouts, and roles

To access the Activity Browser, Alerts, or Configuration components, you must log in to the CAE server.

Web session versus system session

When you log in to the CAE browser client, both a web session and a system session are created unless the log in was against the CAE server, in which case only a web session is created.

Web Session: A web session provides access to the Alerts Browser and the Configuration Browser.
System Session: A mainframe system session provides the CAE browser client with access to Db2 Query Monitor data you can see using the ISPF Client.

Session time out

If you have not accessed a particular system for more than 15 minutes, your system session will time out.

If you have not used the CAE browser client for more than 15 minutes, your web session will time out. Accessing the Home Page or the Online Help are not interpreted as use of the CAE browser client and do not prevent a time out. After a timeout, any attempt to use the CAE browser client will be treated as if you had not logged in to that web session or system session, depending on which had timed-out.

Roles

When you log in, you are assigned a role that controls your access to the Configuration Browser.

If you authenticate against a mainframe system, the role you are assigned will be determined by the kind of access you have to particular facility classes (see below for additional information).
If you authenticate against the CAE server, your role is determined by how you were defined to the CAE.

Access to features

All web sessions will have full access to Alerts Browser and, depending on your role, to the Configuration Browser.