When Communication Manager sends a route request to an ASAI adjunct, vector processing continues for any vector steps that follow the adjunct routing link command. Therefore, non-adjunct routing link step that follows immediately after an adjunct routing link step or multiple adjunct routing link steps in uninterrupted succession can determine:

• The maximum length of time that Communication Manager waits for a call route reply from the ASAI adjunct.

• In some cases, whether or not the ASAI call route request is allowed to finish processing.

If the next step is not a wait-time, announcement, or another adjunct routing link command, as much as six minutes can elapse before Communication Manager determines that the adjunct application is out of service. For this reason, design vectors so that the next step to follow an adjunct routing link command is either a wait-time, or announcement command.