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I don't often run it directly (or at least not deliberately, or because I want that information myself). I've found that simply by using OEE and by running various admin commands, then it will internally cause a ton of repetitive calls to tcman env (which in turn runs powershell). I think it happens from some other places too (ie. using the app server view in PDSOE and so on). This tcman env seems to provide some pretty fundamental information and it seems to be needed on a repeating basis. If you want to run procmon for a day on a PASOE server, and filter on powershell.exe, then you will see what I'm talking about. I normally only see problems indirectly, but I've also seen the error messages myself while using the tcman command on occasion. As one example of an indirect symptom, you can see one of these errors in the logs quite a bit (The process cannot access the file 'C:\OpenEdge\WRK\oepas1\logs\catalina-oepas1.pid' because it is being used by another process). I guess I finally learned where that wierdness is coming from. Matt Baker said earlier that in 11.7.2 they were going to reduce the number of times that tcman env is called (see community.progress.com/.../36187 ) But he had not yet said anything about any concurrency or timing problems like the ones I'm seeing now. Perhaps it is a regression that came up since I moved to 11.7.2 and picked up those other changes.
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