If the firewall's timeout handling is connection-oriented rather than port- or
host-oriented, and site measures can't remedy the problem, a course of action
is the new Tivoli Request For Enhancement (RFE) Process that Andy recently
posted (IBM site Flash 1449404), to try to get keepalive programmed into the
servers at the socket level. (IBM did address this issue in the client
environment, as per Technote 1109798.) You could try filing the issue with TSM
Support as a problem report, but I suspect the response would be that the
product is working as currently designed.
Richard Sims
