Other approaches to disabling a record from processing if there is no connection?

["Wang, Andrew via Tech-talk" <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

HI all,

 

Basically, I am wondering if there is a better way to disable records from processing if a port has been disconnected. What I am currently doing is setting the SDIS field of those records to the CNCT field of an asyn record. Additionally, I also set the DISV field to be 0. If CNCT is “disconnected”, then the records would be disabled because the DISA and DISV fields contain the same values. I am curious to know if there are alternative or potentially better way to do the very same thing.

 

Thank you,

Andy

 

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