This parameter determines whether the gateway work processes are to work in poll mode. When a CMRCV call (receive data) is executed, the work processes are usually blocked until the data or status information has been received. Work processes can thus be blocked for long periods of time depending on the application.

In poll mode, the work processes check at predefined intervals whether data or status information has been received for a connection. Work processes are thus temporarily available for dealing with other tasks, and a high degree of parallelism is achieved.

Due to polling, the CPU consumption of the work processes is higher. Poll mode is recommended when many connections are to be established, or when the response time of the various applications differs.

0: No poll mode
1: Poll mode actrive

This parameter only affects SNA connections.