It may be a bug in the client side validation in Admin Console. I need to check with the backend to confirm if a -1 is indeed a valid value.
In the mean time, you can use the following CLI command to change this attribute value.
asadmin set server.jms-service.reconnect-attempts=1
thanks
Anissa.
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