Tracy asks:

>
> While performing a SHOWQ;ACTIVE I've been seeing a STATE of 29.
>
> Normally, I'm used to seeing WAIT, READY, TRMIO, BLKMM but can anyone tell me what state 29 is?
>
> (AND DON'T TELL ME "IOWA"!)

odd?

BTW, is that SHOWPROC (and not SHOWQ)?

My guess, not having looked too closely at the SHOWPROC output recently,
is that it is trying to interpret a field in the Process Information
Block that tells why a process isn't running.  There are two main
fields, the "high level" PIB_WAIT_EVENT , and the "more specific"
PIB_BLOCKED_REASON.  I would expect SHOWPROC to look at one of these
fields, compare the value to some known common values, and report
WAIT/READY/TRMIO/etc for them, and to simply report the numeric value
if it isn't familiar.

If that's what's happening, and assuming 29 is a decimal value, then
PIB_BLOCKED_REASON of #29 is is DSP_WAIT_QUEUE.


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