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:

*SYSDFTCHL

The value of this attribute is taken from the system default channel of the specified type.

short-retry-count

Specify a value in the range zero through 999 999 999. A value of zero means that no retries are allowed.