Threads on Hold

I have looked everywhere trying to find it. And have asked how to get access to it. It it out there somewhere. I never found it.  

If you get an answer please make sure to post it.

Thanks.

I had asked this question while at the user’s group.  The only place that we found any indication was if you run hcimsiutil -dd .  In the output there is a flag called Proto Flags that presents as follows:

On Hold:

Proto Flags   : 0x1

Not On Hold

Proto Flags   : 0

Hope this helps….  If you find another location please let me know.

You could try doing a search on the process log files to return any line that has “phold_obd”.  If a thread is put in on hold it will place the entry

Received command: ‘ phold_obd’

Doing ‘phold_obd’ command with args ‘‘

That may or may not help you in what you are attempting to do.

Thanks….Tom Rioux

Chris,

From Tcl you can reference the msistats and get the thread status therein.

The Programmer’s Reference Guide gives some info.

Jim Kosloskey

Jim.

I could not find a key within the list returned by msiGetStatSample that provides a status.

Which one did you mean?

Thanks.

Richard,

I think it is the pstatus field.

It has been a while since I have done anything with this but I think that is where I found that information.

One thing everyone needs to keep in mind about msistats (I think this is stated in the manual): these stats are intended for internal use (meaning Quovadx) and thus are subject to change without notice.

Jim Kosloskey

I will check that again. I did look at the pstatus field. But I did not see any difference between hold and not on hold. It has been a long while maybe it has changed.

The pstatus just tells you whether it is up or down.  Unless I’m overlooking it, I don’t see anywhere in the msistats that references if the thread is on hold or not.

That is what I thought. But things change.

Thanks for saving me the time of going out there and looking it up.

You might want to try something like:

set thdname

set msi [exec hcimsiutil -dd $thdname]

regexp -line -nocase {^proto flags.*?$} $msi flag

regexp — {d+$} $flag flagnum

set flagnum [format “%d” $flagnum]

if {$flagnum == 1} {

echo “${thdname} is on HOLD!!!”

} else {

echo “${thdname} is NOT on HOLD!!!”

}

flagnum will either have a value of 0 or 1  depending whether it is on hold or not..

Cl version 5.6 contains the ‘PFLAGS’ key in the msiGetStatSample ouput.

Thread {ALIVE 1} {LASTEXTRACT 1205288649} {LASTUPDATE 1205288669} {START 1205285205} {STOP 0} {PSTATUS opening} {PFLAGS 0} …