Sleep Instruction

Current Situation

• Users would like to delay processing between instructions in a workflow.
• To this purpose users add shell jobs that make use of the sleep command which is OS dependent.

Desired Behavior

• A Sleep Instruction is introduced that can be added to any position in a workflow.
• The Sleep Instruction is parameterized with the number of seconds.
• Behavior with order state transitions:
  • If an order should be suspended, then the Sleep Instruction will continue until completion. After completion of the instruction the order will be suspended.
  • If the suspend/abort operation is applied (see JS-2152) then the Sleep Instruction will stop execution and will discard the remaining sleep duration.
  • The Sleep Instruction does not perform an order state transition, this means it cannot fail.