Timeout of the ECI request

An ECI timeout can occur either before or after the ECI request has been sent to the CICS® server. An ECI timeout is the time the Client daemon will wait for a response to an ECI request sent to a CICS server. The ECI request has two timeout conditions, request timeout and response timeout.

The ECI timeout value is specified in seconds. Because the Client daemon rounds values under a second, some ECI requests might time out before the period specified in eci_timeout. For example if eci_timeout is set to 2, some ECI requests might time out in less than 2 seconds. If the ECI requests always have to wait for at least 2 seconds, set the timeout to 3.