Process remains in WAITING mode in the Active Processes window

kklosson

I have a process that never completes and remains in the Active Processes Window in Waiting status for a good number of hours or until canceled. The process clearly completes all actions. This is true in test and production environments. Due to the nature of my application, I get quite a number of these each day, often with many stacked up in the Active Processes window. I have even issued an END PROCESS statement at the end of the process with no change. Any suggestions are welcome. Also, I can’t tell if these processes are consuming resources. Does anyone know?

customaware

Have your cleared out you Execution Contexts lately? Might be some old one hanging around

kklosson

Yes. I check it all the time. Also, same result on my dev environment.

customaware

Have you tried turning on the PROFILER to see if that can spot the issue?

aware_support3

Is the problem reproducible in a small BSV? If so can you provide this with instructions on how to replicate the error.

nhofkes

It may be different from your specific case, but I recently discovered that when I use EXEC_STRING to dynamically start a process that has user interaction, like DISPLAY LAYOUT or VIEW/EDIT BO, that process would never terminate except after a time out. Theoretically this could be avoided if you could add END PROCESS to the string that is passed to EXEC_STRING, but that results in a syntax error - apparantly you can you use only one action for the string.