Enabling non-expiring sessions

You can set up a user ID to run IZSME with a session that does not expire, or with a different timeout period from the default. This is useful, for example, if you want to have an overhead monitor in your data center that always shows IZSME a high-level "data center health" display.

You can create a group of user IDs with a session timeout value different from the default. These IDs are specified by creating a file called timeout.json in the serverConfig folder in the Zowe™ instance:

<ZOWE_INSTANCE>\workspace\app-server\serverConfig\timeouts.json

For security purposes, write access to this file should be limited to an administrator. For for information, see an example server.json file.

This example illustrates the file format:

{ 
"users": { 
   "ab1234": 400,
   "abxyz": -1
 },
 "groups": { 
   "ZOWEUSERS": 200
 }
}

When one of the specified user IDs logs in, the user's expiration time will be the value specified in the configuration file.

The values specified for users set the timeout period, in seconds; in the example above, the timeout period for user ab1234 would be 400 seconds. To set an unlimited (non-expiring) session, specify a value of -1. In the example, user abxyz will have a non-expiring session.

For more information on configuring Zowe, see Configuring Zowe Application Framework.