Since you already decided to use "onstat -g ntt" the you can also use
session id (sid) of idle session and sent it "onmode -z" to attempt more
gracefull kill.

"Carl Wu" <carl.wu@optus.com.au> wrote in message
news:1161737413.972264.49550@m73g2000cwd.googlegro ups.com...
>
> Hello everyone!
> We are implementing a script to automatically kill off idle application
> sessions. The way we identify whether it's idle is by the timestamps
> obtained by "onstat -g ntt", and we will use "kill -15" to kill off the
> "fglgo" process if the sesion is idle for more than a configured length
> of time.
> We have around 300 users, each day 50 or so of such sessions may be
> killed.
>
> Does any one see any problem with this approach? Would this de-stablise
> the engine in any way?
>
> OS: Solaris 5.8
> IDS 9.40.UC6
> IBM INFORMIX-4GL Version 7.32.UC2 Pcode Version 732
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Carl Y. Wu
>