Maintaining the event queue

You can check the outgoing current event queue for events that have not been processed by the connector.

  1. Go to the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server Connector Tools window (transaction YXR1).
  2. From the Tools menu, click Outgoing Queue, and then click Display Queue.
  3. Click Execute or press the F8 key to display the event queue.

To limit the number of event entries that are displayed, populate the applicable fields in the Current Event Selection section. For example, to limit the displayed entries for a particular business object, enter a business object name in the Object Name field. If you do not know the exact syntax for the business object name, click the Object Name field, click the arrow button (F4), and then select the appropriate business object name.

To see more information about an event, double-click an event field. Under normal conditions, events are picked up every few seconds. If an event is displayed, it has not been processed by the connector. This may indicate that the connector is not running.

The following is a list of the possible event status values for the event queue:

P -- Prequeued When an event is triggered, the status is initially set to prequeue (P), because it has not yet been determined whether the business object is locked.
L -- Locked When a user creates or updates a business object in SAP, a lock is placed against that business object. Once the business object has been committed to the database, SAP removes the lock. If an event is triggered while a business object is locked, the event remains in the event queue with status locked (L) until the lock has been removed.
R -- Retrieved When the connector retrieves an event, the status changes to retrieved (R). This is a temporary status. Once event processing finishes, the connector updates the status and moves the event to the archive table. If the status remains retrieved for an extended period of time, it indicates that the connection between the connector and SAP R/3 may have been lost during processing of that event.
Q -- Queued When the business object is no longer locked, the status changes to queued (Q), and the event is ready to be picked up by the connector. The event remains in this status until a confirmation of a retrieval is received.

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