TMF Reference Manual (H06.05+)

TMFCOM Commands
HP NonStop TMF Reference Manual—540138-002
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ALTER AUDITTRAIL
where:
timeout
is the timeout duration. Enter timeout as an integer in the following format,
indicating the duration in hours, minutes, or seconds:
integer {HOUR[S] | MINUTES[S] | SECOND[S]}
TMF stays in the commit-hold condition (commit-hold is activated) until either
the timeout duration expires or the components required for ZLT again become
available. The minimum timeout is 5 seconds, and you can specify the
maximum as 86400 seconds or 1440 minutes or 24 hours. For most
applications, values close to one minute seem appropriate.
If you specify a timeout value, you can also indicate what TMF should do
when the timeout duration expires, by specifying SUSPEND or CRASH. This
activity is called the timeout action.
SUSPEND
suspends the commit-hold condition, allowing transaction commit or abort to
resume (just as though COMMITHOLDMODE were explicitly turned OFF).
When the problem that triggered the commit-hold is corrected,
COMMITHOLDMODE is automatically turned ON.
CRASH
displays an EMS message announcing that TMF will crash and then forces the
crash. If you subsequently restart TMF and the conditions that triggered the
commit-hold still exist, the commit-hold is re-activated immediately and no new
transactions can be committed or aborted.
To indicate an indefinite duration, use the construct:
COMMITHOLDTIMER -1
where
-1
keeps TMF in the commit-hold condition indefinitely. For this value, the
commit-hold remains in effect until ZLT can be guaranteed or until you explicitly
set COMMITHOLDMODE to either OFF or SUSPEND. If you enter a timeout
value of -1, you cannot specify a timeout action (SUSPEND or CRASH).
Note. The timeout value is always stored in terms of seconds, regardless of
whether you specify the timeout value in hours, minutes, or seconds.