Short retry count (SHORTRTY)

Specifies the short retry count for a sender or server (*SDR or *SVR) channel that is started automatically by the channel initiator. This defines the maximum number of attempts that are made to establish a connection to the remote machine, at intervals specified by SHORTTMR, before the (normally longer) LONGRTY and LONGTMR are used.

The possible values are:

*SAME

The attribute is unchanged.

short-retry-count

Specify a value ranging from 0 through 999 999 999. A value of 0 means that no retries are allowed.