Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

On Jun 16, 2021, at 9:49 AM, Adrian Martinez via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

I've used 'dbr' command on IOC1 and this is the out for Timestamp_from_IOC1:

ioc > dbpr MBT-RBN:TMG-EVR-01:Timestamp_from_IOC1 10

ACKS: NO_ALARM      ACKT: YES           APST: On Change     ASG:                
ASP: (nil)          BKPT: 00            DESC:               DISA: 0            
DISP: 0             DISS: NO_ALARM      DISV: 1             DPVT: 0x153cf30    
DSET: 0x7f5fc4122160                    DTYP: Obj Prop string                  
EVNT:               FLNK:DB_LINK MBT-RBN:TMG-EVR-01:TimeErr-I                  
INP:INST_IO @OBJ=EVR-MTCA, PROP=NextSecond                  LCNT: 0            
LSET: 0x1410530    
MLIS: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00              
MLOK: f0 85 50 01 00 00 00 00           MPST: On Change    
NAME: MBT-RBN:TMG-EVR-01:Timestamp_from_IOC1   NSEV: NO_ALARM      NSTA: NO_ALARM      
OVAL: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:16         PACT: 0             PHAS: 0            
PINI: NO            PPN: (nil)          PPNR: (nil)         PRIO: LOW          
PROC: 0             PUTF: 0             RDES: 0x1242bc0     RPRO: 0            
RSET: 0x7f5fc3ca6560                    SCAN: 1 second      SDIS:CONSTANT      
SEVR: NO_ALARM      SIML:CONSTANT       SIMM: NO            SIMS: NO_ALARM      
SIOL:CONSTANT       SPVT: 0x1558ce0     STAT: NO_ALARM      SVAL:              
TIME: 2021-06-16 14:47:16.997443401     TPRO: 0             TSE: 0              
TSEL:CONSTANT       UDF: 1              UDFS: INVALID      
VAL: Sun, 07 Feb 2106 06:28:16  

The SCAN field is 1s, VAL field never changes but the TIME field of the PV does.

That explains why your source record isn’t getting a new timestamp then; the TSEL link actually sets up a CA monitor on the VAL field, so if that monitor never updates it will never get a new timestamp value.

If you set the MPST field of the above record to “Always” it will cause every process to generate a monitor update, which will update your other records.

- Andrew