CHECK TIMER
Check the status of a BTS timer.
Description
CHECK TIMER returns the status of a BTS timer. It allows the requestor to discover whether a timer has expired and, if so, whether it expired normally or whether its expiry was forced by means of a FORCE TIMER command.
On return from this command, if the timer has expired its associated event is deleted from the current activity's event pool.
The only timers a program can check are those owned by the current activity.
Options
- STATUS(cvda)
- indicates
the status of the timer. CVDA values are:
- EXPIRED
- The timer expired normally.
Its associated event is deleted from the current activity's event pool.
- FORCED
- The timer expired because a FORCE TIMER command was issued against
it.
Its associated event is deleted from the current activity's event pool.
- UNEXPIRED
- The timer has not yet expired.
Its associated event is not deleted from the current activity's event pool.
- TIMER(data-value)
- specifies the name (1–16 characters) of the timer to be checked.
Conditions
- 16 INVREQ
- RESP2
values:
- 1
- The command was issued outside the scope of a currently-active activity.
- 17 IOERR
- An input/output error has occurred on the repository file.
- 115 TIMERERR
- RESP2
values:
- 13
- The timer specified on the TIMER option does not exist.