[Troy Morton]

I have a Tcl CBT that I think was given to me by the instructor of my Cloverleaf Level II class back in the early 2000s.

[Troy Morton]

One other thought.

[Troy Morton]

Hi Rob,

At a previous employer we had throttling set to 1 / 1 / 100%.  That seemed to keep the state 7 queues from building for the most part.  But, I think this setting might slow down the Xlate process in general.  

Have you tried using the mulit-threaded Xlate option?  Logically, it seems maybe if the Xlate is multi-threaded, it might free up more CPU time for the other threads in the process (protocol thread) to send inter-process data?  Just guessing on that one.

Good luck.  Reply back and let every know if you find something that works!

Troy Morton

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There are options in the GUI under /options/client options that will let you change the GUI appearance.

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If you are on UNIX and have access to the user home directories, you can search through the history commands there to see who cycled the thread.  BUT, this will only work if it was done from the comand line.  You might have to be root to do this as well, but here is the command I would use to try to find it:

Code:

$ grep -lR “pstop” /home/*/history

This will show you a list of all user accounts who have had the word “pstop” in their command history.  You could get more fancy with your grep to search for the exact thread name too.

If it was done in the GUI, the previous reply regarding using the security log is probably you’re only hope.[/code]

[Troy Morton]

There is one PM task that I like to do that was not mentioned here.

[Troy Morton]

Hi Russ,

Are you using the FILESET:FTP protocol?  If so, I think there are some settings in the protocol properties that need to be adjusted to ensure that the FTP connection is not terminated before the entire file is sent/received.  Most of the time, when file is being truncated, the issue is an FTP timeout while the file is being sent/received.  

If you are not using FTP, you may have bad (non-ASCII) or non-printing characters embedded in the file that causes Cloverleaf to cut off the file.

Try to determine if a given file truncates in the same place every time or whether it is sporadic and inconsistent.  Inconsistency in where the file is truncated would suggest a timing issue to me, whereas the file truncating in the same place very time would suggest embedded characters.

You can look at a Hex dump of the file.  Any characters over hex 80 are extended ASCII and probably should not be present in text.

Hope this helps.

[Troy Morton]

I noticed the same thing after upgrading from 5.6 to 6.0.2 and did not notice any affect on the output of messages either.  I think that UNNAMED_TID is simply Cloverleaf saying that the thread name in the message METADATA is empty.

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For finding and/or removing special characters in a message, I always prefer to use a TPS proc.  This way you have the entire message at your disposal and you don’t have to worry about how Cloverleaf is parsing the HL7 fields.  

I have written a tps proc before that will allow you to specify characters to remove from an HL7 message as well as which fields to search for the unwanted characters.  This evening, I’ll see if I can find it and post it to this thread.

[Troy Morton]

Unfortunately, there is no “hard and fast” rule about how many threads you can put in a process or how many processes in a site, etc.

[Troy Morton]

Thanks Peter.  I like that idea.  I may discuss this with my colleagues and see if anyone agrees.

[Troy Morton]

Hi Everyone,

We ended up going with AIX 7.1; SNA v6.4.  We have been running this since April with no major issues.  We did have to change the thread configs to use “binary” encoding instead of “ASCII”, however.

We tried AIX 7.1 and SNA 7.0 and it DID NOT work with Cloverleaf 6.0 because the APIs have been changed in SNA 7.0.

Thanks,

[Troy Morton]

Thanks Russ.  This is very helpful!

[Troy Morton]

Thanks so much, David.  Appreciate your help!

Troy

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Hi Jim,

Here are the links to sites that I used to find differences in Tcl 8.5 and previous versions.

http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630

There is a link near the bottom of this page that links to code exmaples of how some functionality has changed in Tcl 8.5.

Troy Morton

Interface Team – Contractor

Novant Health, Inc.

em: t.morton@novanthealth.org

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