What's New

What's New in SAS/IntrNet 9.2
Application Dispatcher

Overview

Application Dispatcher provides background processing, support for 64-bit hosts and IPv6-based hosts, Load Manager enhancements, new options for the PROC APPSRV statement, new parameters for the _REPLAY program, and improved documentation.

General Enhancements

SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher includes the following enhancements:

• Long-running SAS/IntrNet programs can now run in the background to avoid problems with common timeouts for the Application Broker, Web server, and Application Server. The Web browser does not have to wait for a job to complete. The results are returned via e-mail or stored for subsequent retrieval. The following new APPSRVSET parameters are available:

  •    APPSRVSET('background',request_timeout);

  •    APPSRVSET('disconnect');

• SAS/IntrNet now runs on 64-bit hosts and IPv6-based hosts. Any fields in the broker.cfg file that are specified with host:port have to be changed to [host]:port if host contains a colon.

• SAS/IntrNet supports the following additional parameters for starting the Load Manager:

  -background=n

  specifies the number of Application Servers that can be run in the background at one time.

  -delete=service-name

  removes a previously installed Load Manager as a system service on Windows. This is useful if you are running multiple Load Managers. If the service_name is not specified, the name defaults to SAS IntrNet Load Manager.

  -install=service-name

  installs the Load Manager on Windows as a system service. This is useful if you want to run multiple Load Managers. If the service_name is not specified, the Load Manager is installed as SAS IntrNet Load Manager.

  -localhost=hostname

  forces the Load Manager to use the specified string as the local host name for all system host name comparisons.

• SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher supports the following additional options for the PROC APPSRV statement:

  CHARSET= and NOCHARSET options

  enable the PROC APPSRV statement to append a specified character set name to the HTTP content-type header and to disable any special content-type processing, respectively.

  AUTH=META option

  enables the PROC APPSRV statement to use a metadata server.

• SAS/IntrNet Application Dispatcher now supports additional parameters for the _REPLAY program. The _OUTPUTAPP= parameter enables you to replay output to a Microsoft Office application. The _CONTDISP parameter enables you to control the filename of the replayed content.

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