@Benjamin De Boe  - congrats and well deserved!!  I have to also echo my eager anticipation of the return of G.M. and new socks options ;) 

Thank you, we did change it as a stopgap, but we're more wondering about a more secure way to handle this situation. Benjamin's answer above is exactly what we needed, and he confirmed it was intended behavior which is very helpful

Awesome - thank you @Benjamin De Boe!  Just what we needed to know :)

I want to highlight the fact that the account expiration was several months long (so the connection being up for many months with no reconnecting) resulted in the account expiring.  

The other question (besides workarounds) is whether this is expected / desired behavior at the product level, or perhaps the account inactivity logic should take into account ongoing activity?

thank you for making us aware.  I have escalated this internally and I hope it can be corrected quickly.

We are using this to implement a reusable comprehensive email templating module to prevent our having to hand-craft HTML emails out of many different IRIS applications.  So far the approach looks very promising!  (and members of the community will eventually be able to directly see the results as we're first using this to implement a Welcome Email framework which can be used by any of our externally facing applications which use InterSystems Login accounts - https://community.intersystems.com/post/leveraging-your-intersystems-log...) 

My pleasure @Dean Andrews  - I couldn't do any of it were it not for the awesome team you have supporting the D.C. :) 

@Evgeny Shvarov  - I feel the same way about you and your contribution!  It's great striving together to make this place better for everyone learning our technologies :)

Umm ... that sounds a little scary, but thanks all the same ;)

thanks Raj!

Thank you - I agree it was great to connect at GS :)

much appreciated @Muhammad Waseem  - it's a real pleasure :)

Thank you @Robert Cemper!  Working with you on the Hermes application was a great joy to me as well, and I am very thankful that we have been able to stay in touch via the D.C. after your retirement :)  I continue to learn from your deep technical expertise!!

@John Murray  - thank you for the great investment that you and George James makes into tooling for our community!  I am always very impressed with what you come up with :)

thank you for taking the time to write all of this out :)

very clear answer - thank you @Pravin Barton!

Calling @Stefan Wittmann, @Timothy Leavitt  and @Pravin Barton 
If you can move to isc.rest, I know it takes care of OpenAPI (aka Swagger) spec generation automatically.

@Evgeny Shvarov  - I recommend you start a new thread with these questions