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Troubleshooting: WebSphere Applications agent – thread hung problems occur in WAS application that uses Oracle JDBC and has transaction tracking enabled

Troubleshooting


Problem

Problem

When WAS is configured to use Oracle JDBC, after transaction tracking is enabled for the WebSphere Applications agent data collector, a thread hung problem occurs. The following errors are reported in the WAS application message log file:

10/7/19 11:44:26:248 IST] 000000be ThreadMonitor W WSVR0605W: Thread "WebContainer : 1922" (00046f07) has been active for 605089 milliseconds and may be hung. There is/are 1 thread(s) in total in the server that may be hung.at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.ttdc.handlers.TTDCJDBCHandler.handleJDBCConnection(TTDCJDBCHandler.java:406)at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.ttdc.handlers.TTDCJDBCHandler.jdbcStartEvent(TTDCJDBCHandler.java:148)at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.toolkit.ai.callbacks.captureJDBC.CallbackSQLStatement.sendStartTurboTransaction(CallbackSQLStatement.java:3211)at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.toolkit.ai.callbacks.captureJDBC.CallbackSQLStatement.processBeforeConnClose(CallbackSQLStatement.java:3662)at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.toolkit.ai.callbacks.captureJDBC.CallbackSQLStatement.beforeConnectionCloseInstance(CallbackSQLStatement.java:3506)at com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.toolkit.ai.callbacks.captureJDBC.CallbackSQLStatement.beforeConnectionClose(CallbackSQLStatement.java:3461)
at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection.close(T4CConnection.java)at oracle.jdbc.pool.OraclePooledConnection.close(OraclePooledConnection.java:254)
...

 

Solution

This problem is caused by the JDBC Transaction Tracking Handler. To solve this problem, complete the following steps:

1. Disable the JDBC instrument:

a. Navigate to the custom directory:
/websphere/APM/yndchome/7.3.0.14.04/runtime/<was_instance>/custom

For example, 

/websphere/APM/yndchome/7.3.0.14.04/runtime/was85.CPOSZ1AppCell01.cPOSZ1SrvNode01.cPOSZ1AppSrv.CPOS1_Clone1/custom

/websphere/APM/yndchome/7.3.0.14.04/runtime/was85.CPOSZ1AppCell01.cPOSZ1SrvNode01.cPOSZ1AppSrv.CPOS1_Clone2/custom

b. In the custom directory, update the toolkit_custom.properties file and add the following property:

com.ibm.tivoli.itcam.toolkit.ai.enablejdbc=false

2. Restart the WAS server.

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 January 2020

UID

ibm11168822