WP's in THDW Status

[Former Member]

Our WP's are staying in a THDW status. From looking at he logs for WP's I do not see anything. I have stopped and restarted the system a few times with the same result. I could not find anyting on SDN. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chris Sugg

NACCO

[Former Member]

Thanks!

I had forgotten about those commands. I'm guessing they are still around for Basis 7.00? The WP's mysteriously came back up after about five minutes and I did find out later that operations had a backup going so that I is why I'm assuming that was part of the cause. thanks for your help.

Chris

[christian_bartels]

The commands SAVR3SYS, DSCR3SYS, and RCNR3SYS should not be used with SAP releases 6.10 and higher, and as i5/OS V5R3 the operating system offers a better method for online backups (see SAP notes 202593 and 825473). However, I am afraid the tool is still used in some environments, and that was the first explanation that came to my mind.

Regards, Christian.

[christian_bartels]

Chris,

it is hard to say what is going on. Usually work processes are single threaded, so they would show any other status but THDW. The only case where I know that work processes show THDW (in 6.40 and higher) is when they are delayed for a specific time.

One possible reason for this could be that the system is in a "disconnect" state (after using DSCR3SYS or SAVR3SYS). You could either run RCNR3SYS (if you have that tool), or shut down all SAP instances in that partition and delete user space QSYS/QXDADBBK, then restart the instances. If this doesn't help, I would suggest to open a message at SAP.

Kind regards,

Christian Bartels.