Re: What does it mean when a job is in SELW

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Got a PMR open with IBM.  It's happening when not able to connect to the
remote FTP site to download our customer orders.  Checking with them now to
see if they're having issues.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This sounds right for an online ordering process.  There may be a socket
> doing a wait.
> Scott Klement has a tutorial on sockets programming.  I'm guessing you're
> using a package for this.
> You could see the suggested "select()" for additional information.  Hint:
> they are NOT talking about an SQL select.
>
> I would imagine that the job is sitting on TCP/IP on port such and such
> waiting on socket such and such for someone to say "hey, I've got money to
> burn and are you willing to take it?".  And then when someone does place
> an order it's on that like <politically incorrect comparison deleted> and
> that's when your CPU utilization goes up.
>
>
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> From:   Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   12/01/2016 07:48 AM
> Subject:        What does it mean when a job is in SELW
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> The subject says it all.  We have a job in SELW.
>
>
> I found this online:
>
> "SELW: The initial thread of the job is in a select wait.  More
> information
> on the select() function is in the Sockets APIs chapter in the APIs
> topic collection in the Programming category in the IBM i
> Information Center at http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/infocenter/.
>
> "Generally you do not have to do anything. The job is just waiting for
> some
> activity before it continues. Many times it is an IBM job. We have a bar
> coding application that will put jobs in this status while waiting for
> someone to scan something.-- "
>
> We're not "barcoding" in this app.  But that doesn't really make any sense
> to me.  The job that's waiting is an online order coming in, so it's
> pretty
> important.  Normally 100+ orders a day handles this way.  It went to TIMW
> for a short time, now back to SELW.
>
> V7R1, current on PTFs.  BRMS save while active backup is still running
> because IT didn't start at the normal 3am.  CPU is at 98%+.
>
> Help!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeff Crosby
> VP Information Systems
> UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
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