S4PM 5.1.0 RELEASE NOTES

Release Date

March 24, 2004

Functional Changes

1. The Bypass QA button will now require a userid and password to execute.

Detailed File Changes

allocdisk.cfg

• Documented the new %proxy_esdt_map hash and how it is used.
  

allocdisk_getdisk.pl

• Minor modification for the new hash in the allocdisk.cfg file.
  

clean_data.pl

• Added a modification so that it checks whether or not the data type has a proxy and, if so, use the proxy data type.
  

data_catcher.pl

• Added a modification so that it checks whether or not the data type has a proxy and, if so, use the proxy data type.
  

granfind.pl

• Added a modification so that it checks whether or not the data type has a proxy and, if so, it assumes the data type belongs to the 'INPUT' disk pool.
  

MetXML.pm

• New module under S4P to handle functions dealing with XML files.
  

OdlTree.pm

• Minor modification to allow reading of ODL files that do not have an outer container.
  

request_data.pl

• Added a modification so that it checks whether or not the data type has a proxy and, if so, use the proxy data type.
  

S4PM.pm

• Added new function, get_datatype_if_proxy(), to handle proxy ESDTs, mostly used in on-demand processing.
  

s4pm_static.cfg

• Minor fixes in the way that on-demand strings are configured.
• Added requirement for userid and password when executing 'Bypass QA' in the Data Catcher station.
• For on-demand processing, got rid of tkcompreq GUI and its kin.
  

s4pm_derived.cfg

• Minor fixes in the way that on-demand strings are configured.
• Added requirement for userid and password when executing 'Bypass QA' in the Data Catcher station.
  

s4pm_pge_esdt.cfg

• Updated with the contents of what is now in OPS.
  

s4pm_string.cfg

• Added documentation on and sample use of the %proxy_esdts hash.
  

stringmaster.pl

• Modification so that it includes the %proxy_esdt_map in building the allocdisk.cfg file.
  

track_requests.pl

• Better handling for error cases to prevent race conditions.
  

trigger_pge.pl

• Fix to allow on-demand PGEs to read specialized criteria from the PSPEC file directly rather than forcing them to read from the PCF.