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Understanding Oracle Forms Timeout Parameters (Or Should I Say FORMS - TIMEOUT) FRM-92102 - A Network Error Has Occured

This document discusses Oracle Forms timeout parameters that can cause forms to randomly disconnect after periods of inactivity. It describes three main timeout settings: 1) the FORMS_TIMEOUT environment variable, 2) the heartBeat applet parameter, and 3) the session-timeout parameter in the web.xml file. These settings control how long a forms session remains active without communication from the client or user input before timing out. The document also mentions the networkRetries parameter which controls retry attempts when network errors occur.

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Understanding Oracle Forms Timeout Parameters (Or Should I Say FORMS - TIMEOUT) FRM-92102 - A Network Error Has Occured

This document discusses Oracle Forms timeout parameters that can cause forms to randomly disconnect after periods of inactivity. It describes three main timeout settings: 1) the FORMS_TIMEOUT environment variable, 2) the heartBeat applet parameter, and 3) the session-timeout parameter in the web.xml file. These settings control how long a forms session remains active without communication from the client or user input before timing out. The document also mentions the networkRetries parameter which controls retry attempts when network errors occur.

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Understanding Oracle Forms timeout parameters (or

should I say FORMS_TIMEOUT) FRM-92102 – A


network error has occured
Why does my Oracle Form keep randomly disconnecting?
January 12, 2012

Today I was at a client who was having trouble since there forms where disconnecting randomly after 15
minutes. They had tried to play around with the TIMEOUT  settings but they got bogged down in too many
documents that pointed to more documents. I decided to post a quick guide to Oracle Forms timeout
parameters. To help the community configure Forms sessions to time out after a specified period of user
inactivity. Here I discuss the specific timeout parameters of Oracle Forms. For general web server timeout
parameters you should look at note  294749.1  on Oracle Support – Troubleshooting WebForms Tuning /
Performance /Time out Problems
Basically Oracle Forms 10g relies on 3 settings to control inactivity timeout.

1) FORMS_TIMEOUT environment variable:


This is an environment variable that is set in the env file found $ORACLE_HOME/forms/server/default.env.
The default is et to use a file called default.env file  but this can be customized in the formsweb.cfg found in
$ORACLE_HOME/forms/server/formsweb.cfg  to use <custom>.env files for each configuration in which
case these should be modified instead of default.env.

Please note: The Forms environment variable FORMS_TIMEOUT is refered to as FORMS90_TIMEOUT in


version IAS 9i and 10g R1 (9.0.4) it is in OAS 10g R2 (10.0.1.2) it is FORMS_TIMEOUT.

Add a row to the end of the file such as:

FORMS_TIMEOUT=30

The default value for forms timeout is 15 and Valid Values range from  3 to 1440 (1 day)
This parameter specifies the amount of time in elapsed minutes before the Form Services process is
terminated when there is no client communication with the Form Services. Client communication can come
from the user doing some work, or from the Forms Client heartbeat if the user is not actively using the form.

2) heartBeat applet parameter:


The heartBeat parameter is a feature of the applet and it is set in the formsweb.cfg file found in
$ORACLE_HOME/forms/server/formsweb.cfg

This parameter is used to set the frequency at which a client sends a packet to the server to indicate that it is
still running. We can define this integer value in minutes or in fractions of minutes, for example, 0.5 for 30
seconds. The default is two minutes.

Please note: If the heartbeat is less than FORMS_TIMEOUT, the user’s session will be kept alive, even if
they are not actively using the form. HeartBeat is recommended to be at least 2 beats smaller than
FORMS_TIMEOUT

In the formweb.cfg file add the following line to the configuration of your choise:

heartBeat=12

The default value for heartBeat is 2 and Valid Values range from  1 to 1440 (1 day)

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3)The session-timeout  parameter of the forms servlet in the web.xml configuration file


This file defines the OC4J forms & listener servlet definitions, including servlet parameters and session
configuration. The file is found
$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_BI_Forms/applications/formsapp/formsweb/WEB-INF/web.xml
The value of session-timeout refers to the maximum amount of inactivity that a single session can have before
it is automatically invalidated by the server.

Please note: The value of <session-timeout> should be the same as FORMS_TIMEOUT.

The following lines must be added to web.xml.

<web-app>
……
……

<session-config>
<!– Session timeout in minutes –>
<session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>

</web-app>

networkRetries applet parameter


Besides the above timeout parameters there are additional reasons that forms maybe disconnecting that are
not timeout based but network related. Ususally they are prefaced by error FRM-92102: A network error
has occurred. The Forms Client has attempted to reestablish its connection to the Server 5  time(s)
without success.  This parameter specifies the number of times the Forms client should try reconnecting to
the middle-tier before finally timing out. The Oracle Forms network connection to the server is a little picky it
does not like being ignored. So as such if it tries to reach the server more than 5 times without response it
dies. Although this would seem logical most of the time 5 seconds is just too little if we take into consideration
that there maybe database performance issues or network waits.

To add tolerance to Forms patience thay have added a great parameter called ‘networkRetries’ to the forms
configuration file $ORACLE_HOME/forms/server/formsweb.cfg.  Set the value of the networkretries
parameter to a suitable number according your  network characteristics needed. For example,
networkRetries=30.  If the error continues to occur even after setting up an appropriate value for
networkRetries, you should check firewall and proxies that maybe blocking the applications server ports.
Some interesting links about this topic are:
Known Causes of FRM-92101 Error In Forms [Note: 604633.1 on Metalink]
Subject: How To Fix The Forms Timeout Issue In Oracle Applications 11i
Understanding How networkRetries Works [ID 332942.1]
Master note on Known Causes of FRM-92102 Error in Forms [ID 756369.1]

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