how do I delay a message using TCL?

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March 22, 2006 at 8:09 pm #48421
John Harvey
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I’m hoping this is a stupid question with a simple solution: I’d like to know how to hold onto a message for a few seconds before forwarding it to another thread?

for instance:

thread a gets an hl7 message from an outside source

within thread a, use tcl and hold the message for 5 seconds

after 5 to 10 seconds, forward the message to thread b

Any help is greatly appriciated…thanks!

John
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- March 22, 2006 at 9:53 pm #58595
  Michael Lacriola
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  I once had to hold a message for longer than that. What I did was write the message to a local directory (for me somewhere on the rs/6000) then create another thread (fileset-local) that had a tps proc for the directory parse that would check to see if the file was at leat 2 minutes old. If it was, include it. You can then go on from there.
- March 23, 2006 at 5:02 pm #58596
  Chris Williams
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  How about a line of tcl:
  
  sleep 5
  
  Cheers.
- March 23, 2006 at 5:38 pm #58597
  Jim Kosloskey
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  Chris,
  
  Actually sleep (and I think the other delay Tcl commands) will all cause the entire PROCESS to wait.
  
  That is probably not a good thing.
  
  Jim Kosloskey
  
  email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.
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