Heartbeat interval (HRTBTINTVL)

Specifies the time, in seconds, between heartbeat flows passed from the sending MCA when there are no messages on the transmission queue. The heartbeat exchange gives the receiving MCA the opportunity to quiesce the channel. This applies only to sender, server, cluster sender and cluster receiver (*SDR, *SVR, *CLUSSDR and *CLUSRCVR) channels.

The possible values are:

*SAME

The attribute is unchanged.

heart-beat-interval

Specify a value ranging from 0 through 999 999 999. A value of 0 means that no heartbeat exchanges are to take place.