Each TSO/E session has an idle application time that the CEA TSO/E address space manager uses to determine if the application that is associated with the session is active. If the idle application time is 15 minutes, the application is considered to be inactive. In which case, the CEA TSO/E address space manager ends all the CEA-managed TSO/E sessions for that application that have the same application identifier.

To prevent TSO/E sessions from ending because of idle application time, callers can use the CeaTsoPing request type to issue a ping request at least once every 15 minutes. Doing so informs CEA that the application is still active, and causes the CEA TSO/E address space manager to reset the idle application time for all the CEA-managed TSO/E sessions that have the same application identifier.

To perform this request, the CEA TSO/E address space manager extracts the caller’s security UTOKEN from the caller’s environment and uses it when needed.

Table 1 lists the input callers must provide for each structure used for this request type and the output that will be provided. No other fields in the structures are used. The value for the unused fields is indeterminate. For more details about the fields listed for each structure, see Parameters.