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Rescheduling TIMEOUT

kaalraa

Environment: TS 6.1 / SP 2 / Solaris 8

Issue we are facing is about changing the TIMEOUT value of a task being initiated thru a job specification file created thru WFConstructor.pm

We have a Externaltask "Notify of Deployment Time (NDT)" having successor as and "Dummy Task (DT)" and a usertask "Wait for Deployment (WD)" running in parellel. After this DT moves on to externaltask "Deploy to Prod (DP)" as TIMEOUT and WD goes to cgitask "Reschedule Deployment (RD)".

Now when we work try to reschedule the deployment for say 021020061500, its is not changing the timeout property of the Dummy Task. We are using SetTimeout method of the object derived by using GetTaskByName method of Job object.

Can anyone help me out with suggestions on the situation. :rolleyes:

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Adam Stoller

It's been a while since I've had to deal with this - but if memory serves me correctly - the SetTimeout() method actually takes an argument in the form of +SSSS... - i.e. a relative number of *seconds* from "now"

You may want to experiment and try something like "+3600" (1 hour) to see if that works to adjust the timeout on the task.

kaalraa

Thanks Adam... will check if we can use this property if it only takes +number of seconds. But still a query .. is there any other way to change the timeout property of any declared task?

It's been a while since I've had to deal with this - but if memory serves me correctly - the SetTimeout() method actually takes an argument in the form of +SSSS... - i.e. a relative number of *seconds* from "now"

You may want to experiment and try something like "+3600" (1 hour) to see if that works to adjust the timeout on the task.

jbonifaci

SetTimeout should work fine and I know it at least takes +HHHHMM, not +SSSSSS. I use it all the time.

~Jeff

Adam Stoller

SetTimeout should work fine and I know it at least takes +HHHHMM, not +SSSSSS. I use it all the time.

That may be been a bug that was fixed in the 5.x days (it's been a while since I had to use it [over 4 years] and I ended up debugging the system to determine that it was using seconds instead of hours-and-minutes at the time)

There's still a question of whether it works with the absolute-date/time string as opposed to the relative-time string...

Migrateduser

Yes, it does. Here's a snippet from a cgitask we've used on a few projects:


  if ($new_date =~ m|(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)\s(\d\d)\d\d)|) {
    ($year, $mon, $mday, $hours, $min) = ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5);
  }

    $timeout = "$mon$mday$year$hours$min";

  ## timeout passed to SetTimeout must be in format of +HHHHMM or MMDDYYYYHHMM
  if ($timeout ne "") {
    ($return_succ, $timeout_task) = ($wf->GetTaskByName($timeoutTaskName));
   if( $return_succ == 1)  {
      if ($timeout_task->IsValid()) {
        $return_succ = $timeout_task->SetTimeout($timeout);
        if( $return_succ == 0)  {
          $error_msg = "Couldn't Set Timeout, Contact Administrator. $timeout";
        }
        else {
          $task->CallBack(0, "Timeout time set to $new_date ($timeout)");        
        }
      }
      else {
        $error_msg = "Task Invalid, Contact Administrator.";
      }
    }

kaalraa

Everyone,

I have solved out this problem, just for everyones help, the mistake i was doing is using SetTimeout method at the time, when the usertask/dummytask is in active state. On setting the new time out for any task, it should be in INACTIVE state.

Thanks for all help, snippets and suggestions.

Yes, it does. Here's a snippet from a cgitask we've used on a few projects:


  if ($new_date =~ m|(\d\d\d\d)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)\s(\d\d)\d\d)|) {
    ($year, $mon, $mday, $hours, $min) = ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5);
  }

    $timeout = "$mon$mday$year$hours$min";

  ## timeout passed to SetTimeout must be in format of +HHHHMM or MMDDYYYYHHMM
  if ($timeout ne "") {
    ($return_succ, $timeout_task) = ($wf->GetTaskByName($timeoutTaskName));
   if( $return_succ == 1)  {
      if ($timeout_task->IsValid()) {
        $return_succ = $timeout_task->SetTimeout($timeout);
        if( $return_succ == 0)  {
          $error_msg = "Couldn't Set Timeout, Contact Administrator. $timeout";
        }
        else {
          $task->CallBack(0, "Timeout time set to $new_date ($timeout)");        
        }
      }
      else {
        $error_msg = "Task Invalid, Contact Administrator.";
      }
    }