QUESTION
 When I try to access a DSOM object from VisualAge, the system seems  
 to hang.  The only way I can get out is to press Ctrl-Esc and end    
 VisualAge. 

ANSWER
                                                          
 DSOM objects are accessed across a communication link (either            
 inter-process communications (IPC) or a wire).  To account for latency   
 in the communications network, the DSOM client must wait for some        
 period of time before declaring an error due to lack of server           
 response.  Since its calls to DSOM are synchronous, VisualAge waits      
 also.  If you have enough patience to wait, DSOM will either return      
 with an exception indication or your VisualAge process will terminate.   
                                                                          
 If your VisualAge process terminates, the most likely reason is that     
 you didn't have the DSOM daemon running (see  answer SOM00005).          
                                                                          
 You can reduce the wait from its default of 10 minutes to something      
 more reasonable for your working environment by placing a DSOM timeout   
 statement in your CONFIG.SYS file. The value you specify is the number   
 of seconds that DSOM should wait for a response from a server before     
 it declares failure -- 60 seconds might be a good choice.  Here is an         
 example:                                                                      
                                                                               
   SET SOMDTIMEOUT=60