Cognos Analytics

Having an issue increasing the "Inactivity timeout in seconds" in the IBM Cognos Configuration tool. It's currently set at 3600 seconds. When I try to increase it, I get a little error message.  Is there a max value for this field? See attached

Hey John - 

I have not seen an error in that instance before.  But adding 10 hours to the timeout might be too much.  Most webservers will timeout in an hour anyway. 

But I would try increasing it to 2 hour (7200 seconds) and see if that helps.   What is the main issue you are trying to solve by increasing this? - let me guess, users just keeping their tab open and it is causing authentication error? ;)   

I hope that helps a bit. 

Having an issue increasing the "Inactivity timeout in seconds" in the IBM Cognos Configuration tool. It's currently set at 3600 seconds. When I try to increase it, I get a little error message.  Is there a max value for this field? See attached

Hi Daryl, thanks for the response. I've tried a number of values including 7200 and get the same error. I'm at a loss. 

Hey John - 

I have not seen an error in that instance before.  But adding 10 hours to the timeout might be too much.  Most webservers will timeout in an hour anyway. 

But I would try increasing it to 2 hour (7200 seconds) and see if that helps.   What is the main issue you are trying to solve by increasing this? - let me guess, users just keeping their tab open and it is causing authentication error? ;)   

I hope that helps a bit. 

Having an issue increasing the "Inactivity timeout in seconds" in the IBM Cognos Configuration tool. It's currently set at 3600 seconds. When I try to increase it, I get a little error message.  Is there a max value for this field? See attached