o active base Default: 255 Value: 0-255 Specifies the base priority to which an active tributary is reset after it has been polled. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o active increment Default: 0 Value: 0-255 Specifies the value to be added to the active tributary priority each time the scheduling timer expires. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o address Default: 1 Value: 1-255 Data link address of the remote station or tributary. You can modify this characteristic only when the entity is disabled. o babble timer Default: 6000 Value: 1-65535 Specifies the time, in milliseconds, for which a selected tributary or remote station is allowed to transmit. This characteristic is not used on full-duplex links. This characteristic is not supported if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to tributary. o buffer source Default: Implementation-specific Value: See description Specifies the source of the receive buffers. client Buffers are provided by the client entity. supplied common pool Buffers are assigned from the common buffer pool. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. You can modify this characteristic only when the entity is disabled. o dead threshold Default: 8 Value: 0-255 Specifies the number of times that an active, inactive, or dying tributary is polled before its status attribute polling substate is changed to dead because of receive timeouts. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o dying base Default: 0 Value: 0-255 Specifies the base priority to which a dying tributary is reset after being polled. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o dying increment Default: 16 Value: 0-255 Specifies the value to be added to a dying tributary's priority each time the scheduling timer expires. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o dying threshold Default: 2 Value: 0-255 Specifies the number of times an active or inactive tributary is polled before its status attribute polling substate is changed to dying because of receive timeouts. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o holdback timer Default: 0 Value: 0-13000 Maximum time (in milliseconds) that the local station can delay acknowledging a received message if there is no data to send. The value of this characteristic is linked to the retransmit timer used on the remote station. A suggested value is between 10% and 20% of that timer. However, the actual values you can use may be limited by the communications product. The default value indicates that no holdback is used and the local station must acknowledge immediately. o inactive base Default: 0 Value: 0-255 Specifies the priority to which an inactive tributary is reset after it has been polled. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o inactive increment Default: 64 Value: 0-255 Specifies the value to be added to an inactive tributary's priority each time the scheduling timer expires. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o inactive threshold Default: 8 Value: 0-255 Specifies the number of times an active tributary is polled before its status attribute polling substate is changed to inactive because of no data response. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o maximum buffers Default: 4 Value: Implementation specific Specifies the maximum number of buffers that a tributary can use from the common buffer pool. A value of 0 means that there is no limit to the number of buffers that can be used. This characteristic is supported only if the buffer source characteristic is set to common pool. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. You can modify this characteristic only when the entity is disabled. Also, you can only increase the characteristic value. o maximum transmit Default: 4 Value: 1-255 Specifies the maximum number of messages that a tributary or a remote half-duplex station can send at one time. The value of this characteristic must be greater than or equal to that of transmit window on the selected station. This characteristic is not supported if either of the following conditions is true: o The characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to tributary. o The communications link is full-duplex and point-to-point. You cannot modify this characteristic. o polling state Default: Automatic Value: See description. Specifies the effect of the local station's polling algorithm on the state of a tributary. The value of this characteristic is reflected in the value of the status attribute polling substate. active The state is locked to active. automatic The state varies according to the operation of the polling algorithm. dead The state is locked to dead. dying The state is locked to dying. inactive The state is locked to inactive. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o transmit timer Default: 0 Value: 0-65535 Specifies the time, in milliseconds, that the local station waits between data transmissions. This characteristic is supported only if the characteristic protocol of the owning ddcmp link entity is set to control. o transmit window Default: 1 Value: 1-255 Specifies the maximum number of data messages that the local station can send without receiving an acknowledgment. This characteristic applies only when the remote station is a control station or on a half-duplex, point-to-point link. The value of this characteristic must be less than or equal to the equivalent of the maximum transmit characteristic on the control station or remote station.