resend transaction without gui (NOT SMAT)

Use hcicmd (See last line below for example) (this is for unix)

Syntax:

   hcicmd -p [-t ] [-h host] [-c …] [-v] [-help]

       -h       – process host machine

       -p    – engine process name, optional if -t is ‘d’

       -t       – type of process: e (engine) or d (daemon)

                          (defaults to engine)

       -c        – just execute the command

       -v              – verbose

       -help           – show usage help message

use -c to send the command

Expected: []

Valid commands are:

die            stop the engine             :: . die

eo_alias       apply output alias          :: eo_alias

eo_en          enable trace output         :: eo_en

eo_dis         disable trace output        :: eo_dis

fwd_start      start msg forwarding        :: fwd_start

fwd_stop       stop msg forwarding         :: fwd_stop

fwdr_start     start reply forwarding      :: fwdr_start

fwdr_stop      stop reply forwarding       :: fwdr_stop

output_cycle   Cycle the engine output file:: . output_cycle

purgex         purge translation caches    :: . purgex

pstart         start a connection          :: pstart

pstop          stop a connection           :: pstop

phold_obd      hold OB data messages       :: phold_obd

prls_obd       release OB data messages    :: prls_obd

reindex        reload Tcl auto-load indices:: reindex

reload         reload Tcl procedure        :: reload

resend_errordb resend message from error db :: . resend_errordb [ ]

resend         resend message(s)           :: resend

save_start     start saving protocol msgs  :: save_start {in|out}

save_stop      stop saving protocol msgs   :: save_stop {in|out}

save_cycle     cycle save message file     :: save_cycle {in|out}

xhold_post     hold post-xlate queue       :: xhold_post

xrel_post      release post-xlate queue    :: xrel_post

disable_event  disable event in a thread   :: disable_event

enable_event   enable event in a thread    :: enable_event

disable_scheduldisable schedule            :: disable_schedule

enable_scheduleenable schedule             :: enable_schedule

schedule_statusget schedule status         :: schedule_status

event_status   get event status            :: event_status

current_event  get current event           :: current_event

curr_event_str get current event string    :: curr_event_str

client_list    list multi-server clients   :: client_list

client_drop    drop a multi-server client  :: client_drop

thread_id      show thread namess & id’s   :: . thread_id

hcicmd -p -c ‘ resend ‘

Example:

hcicmd -p myprocess -c ‘my_outbound_thread resend ob_post_tps data 5120 /hci/qdx5.7/integrator/vm5_adt/data/my_resend_file.dat nl’

When you’re in the Network Monitor, you can turn on ‘Command and Engine Output’ via menu ‘View’ (or use CTRL-E). This pane will show all the commands that are executed when you do something via the GUI, like say stop a thread, start a process or resend a message.

This way you can easily see what command you need to use.

Perhaps the original request is similar to what I am looking for.

We added a new interface to production. Now they want eight days of ADT sent to their (outbound/destination thread) interface.

So I have 32 smat files to resend. I do not want to use the GUI to open each of those smat files and save to a file, and then run the hcicmd resend to submit all those messages – I could just as well sit in the GUI, open each smat file and resend all messages to the new destination.

What I really want is a command-line command that lets me resend all messages to a destination, directly from the smat file – just like I can in the GUI. I thought all GUI commands were available in the command-line, but actually it seems like I have to save them to another file first.

Is there no other way?

Peter

Use hcismat

usage: hcismat -i filename ?-pri priority? ?-nl? ?-reply? ?-ib?

where:

   -i       Input filename

   -pri     Resend priority  (4096 – 8192) Default = 5120

   -reply              Resend selected messages as reply instead of data

   -ib                 Resend selected messages as inbound instead of outbound

   -nl                 Write file as newline delimited, default is len10

is exactly one of:

   -orut      Resend unselected messages to thread

   -oruf    Resend unselected messages to file

   -orst      Resend selected messages to thread

   -orsf    Resend selected messages to file

is any valid grouping of:

   -sds         Starting at date and time yyyymmdd[hhmmss]

   -sde         Ending at date and time   yyyymmdd[hhmmss]

   -sdn                Not meaning of date search

   -sms          Starting at message id    [0.0.]###

   -sme          Ending at message id      [0.0.]###

   -smn                Not meaning of mid search

   -sall               Select all messages in input file

When I use that syntax to specify the smat file I use the .msg file. It returns “First read on file failed: non-numeric length-encode string”.

source_thread=”xfr_chanc_vxu”

dest_thread=”to_db_vxu”

smatfile=”/test/cis6.0/shutltst/exec/processes/xfranc/xfr_chanc_vxu_ib.msg”

hcicmd -p xfranc -c “$source_thread resend ib_pre_tps $dest_thread data 5120 $smatfile len10”

hcismat, not hcicmd…  🙂

I missed that – thank you.

and I miss my online help, I can’t see it with IE 11.

Can hcismat resend to a specified destination thread??

Yes, try this:

hcismat -i $smatfile -orst $dest_thread -sall

That being said, I’m starting to wonder about $smatfile.

The documentation is not clear.

I don’t know if it is:

Smatfile

Smatfile.idx

Smatfile.msg

ok I can try that, but can I specify the inbound thread to submit into, and also which destination thread it should route to? This functionality exists for the resend command.

I’m sorry, I was kind of assuming you were resending multiple outbound smat files.

You can resend inbound smat messages but depending on your version of Cloverleaf, you may not be able to specify the outbound target thread. All outbound threads would reprocess.

Maybe someone else has a better answer?

Anytime I want to know the syntax of a command to simulate what I’m doing in Netmonitor, I let the GUI show me the command it runs by specifying (view -> command and engine output).

With this setting the commands invoked by your GUI action will be displayed, then I simply steal them as I choose.

ok just to be clear – I want a command line command that will resend from a specified smat file. The GUI does not have a View -> command option, nor does the GUI window for SMAT resends show the command line version at the bottom.

The help for hcismat, and the resulting error messages when I tried it, seem to imply that the messages are found in a file, i.e. a regular file, not a smat file. This file referenced in the command – is that a file that I previously saved smat messages to?

So that means I have to go to the trouble of using the GUI just to prepare a file that I can then use on the command line. Do I have that right?

Or can someone give me a command I can enter for smat file ‘x.y.z.idx’ and for inbound thread ‘fr_abc”.

Here is the error when I specify a real smat file:

hcismat: Invalid argument bad variable name “::SMAT::argArray(TARGET)”: upvar won’t create a scalar variable that looks like an array element                                                          

usage: hcismat -i filename ?-pri priority? ?-nl? ?-reply? ?-ib?                                                                                                

where:                                                                                              

   -i       Input filename                                                              

   -pri     Resend priority  (4096 – 8192) Default = 5120                              

   -reply              Resend selected messages as reply instead of data                          

   -ib                 Resend selected messages as inbound instead of outbound                    

   -nl                 Write file as newline delimited, default is len10                          

actual command entered:

hcismat -i fr_uds_cm_ib.283.1 -orst fr_uds_cm -ib -sall

Thanks

If this approach is of interest, check out the following 3 scripts that will convert any smat file to newline even if messages aren’t HL7

   ebcdic_smat_to_nl.ksh

   len10_to_nl.pl

   ascii_smat_to_nl.ksh

that I previously posted at the following URL

<a href="http://clovertech.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1539&&#8221; class=”bbcode_url”>http://clovertech.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=1539&amp;

Once the SMAT files are converted into friendlier new-line terminated messages, those are what I then use to resend.

thank you I will try to put those into a script that can handle a directory full of smat files.

Do you think native functionality in Cloverleaf to allow for command line smat resubmission is useful?

ok I guess I have a different problem. When I ran that script – ascii_smat_to_nl.ksh, I got the same error:

hcismat: Invalid argument bad variable name “::SMAT::argArray(TARGET)”: upvar won’t create a scalar

variable that looks like an array element                                                          

is this a tcl environment issue?

Yes I consider backend access to SMAT messages useful and is my preference as opposed to the SMAT GUI tool most of the time.

I haven’t launched the SMAT GUI tool hardly at all over the last decade.

For other people they can’t live without the SMAT GUI tool because they are less comfortable with backend access.

On the backend, I have on several occasions done large backloads of more than a month, practically unattended once I get it setup, to use a load thread with throttling to loop thru the new-line terminated files cretated from SMAT archives.

Me too. It is a ‘not so perfect world’, so we end up having to resubmit large numbers of smat files once a month or so. Just can’t do that using the GUI.

Also be aware there is a bug with resending from SMAT that will recycle the SMAT file, at least for Cloverleaf 6.0.

Even when I do rarely use SMAT in the GUI it is just for viewing.

I don’t trust the SMAT GUI under cloverleaf 6.0 to ever do a resend or write to a file.

Try the hcismat or hcismatdb scripts that I have previously posted