NBSpool Release Notes Version 9.7

NBSpool Release Notes

Version 9.7

May 1997

NOTE: NBSpool 9.7 is not supported on classic systems (MPE/V) and

Requires 5.0 or later of MPE/iX.

New Features and Enhancements

GENERAL

9.7 up 0 Added SPOOLER Command

This new feature allows a user to increase the maximum number of NBSpool processes running while

reducing the overhead of NBSpool background jobs. Prior to version 9.7, the NBSpool background

process would wake up at the time interval specified in the XEQ command file and scan the entire

spooler to find spool files that matched criteria in the MOVE command. If there were a lot of spool files,

this could take a lot of time and overhead.

Version 9.7 has been modified so that you can specify the device or device class on which to wake up

waiting spooler processes instead of scanning the entire system. When a spool file becomes ready on a

specified device, procedure exits automatically trigger NBSpool to perform the set of commands in the

XEQ command file.

For more information on how to use this feature look at the file SPOOLER.UPDATE.NETBASE.

9.7 up 0b Enhanced VSAVE Command to save spoolfile’s forms message

Working with Vista, version A.06.64, and with the parameter $PRINT-USE-FORMID-FORMS set to

ON in VISTAINI.DATA.NETBASE, this version of NBSpool saves a spoolfile’s forms message.

9.7 up 1 Do not VSAVE empty spoolfiles

With previous versions of NBSPOOL, you would need to specify, ~recs=1-2 on the VSAVE command to

prevent empty spoolfiles from being captured. This is now done automatically.

9.7 up 1a Added NOQUOTE option to the ALTER command

Prevents the single quote from being added to the job/session number when changing the

environment of a spool file.

9.7 up 1b Added the display of the formid with the SHOW;FORMS command

9.7 up 1c Added INDICATE command

Inserts a line of text to INDICATE where the strings used in a SUBSET were found in qualified spool

files. See the on-line help for more information.

9.7 up 1e Increase file size for KEEP and MERGE

9.7 up 2 Increase maximum number of spoolfiles to be processed from 9900 to 16380

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NBSpool Release Notes Version 9.7 May 1997 NOTE: NBSpool 9.7 is not supported on classic systems (MPE/V) and Requires 5.0 or later of MPE/iX. New Features and Enhancements GENERAL 9.7 up 0 Added SPOOLER Command This new feature allows a user to increase the maximum number of NBSpool processes running while reducing the overhead of NBSpool background jobs. Prior to version 9.
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9.7 up 2 Added new options to the SPOOLER command Allow the use of SPOOLER @;command. See online help for more info MOVE/COPY 9.7 up 0d Limited the number of retries for a single spool file NBSpool will attempt retries on a single spool file a maximum of 50 times. 9.7 up 0f Added RetryDelay Add RETRYDELAY support for socket errors 64 and 67. Previously,NBSpool could wait and retry to connect to a node to complete a move when a destination node was unavailable when this parm is specified.
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Bug Fixes 9.7 up 0f VSAVE accepts larger spoolfiles Previously, VSAVE would issue an error message, "TOO MANY PAGES" as it attempted to build a temporary file prior to saving the very large spoolfile into the Vista folder. Now that temporary file has been expanded (50 times larger if necessary) to allow for much larger spoolfiles. 9.