SAS/IntrNet Software

Application Dispatcher

Improved administration interface
When you access the Application Broker URL using no parameters, a default administration page appears in your browser. This page gives you access to administration information, SAS/IntrNet samples, and SAS/IntrNet documentation. Also, additional usage statistics are now available from a Load Manager statistics report.
Support for new catalog entry types
The replay program feature and the automatic HTTP header generation feature of Application Dispatcher now support several Web-related catalog entry types. These new types include CSS, CSV, PDF, RTF, WML, and XML.
Support for additional output destinations
The automatic HTTP header generation feature now recognizes most of the Output Delivery System (ODS) output destinations and generates appropriate default Content-type headers. Supported output destinations include HTML, CSV, PDF, POSTSCRIPT, RTF, WML, and XML.
Support for Application Server and Load Manager as Windows NT services
The Application Server and the Load Manager can now be installed as Windows NT services. This enables you to automatically invoke Application Dispatcher at system boot time on a Windows NT server.
Improved tools for configuring Application Dispatcher services
The inetcfg utility now generates shared configuration files for all servers in a service. On some hosts, the inetcfg utility generates sample configuration information for the broker.cfg file.
Improved Load Manager scheduling
Load Manager scheduling for Web applications that use sessions has been improved.
Customized handling of expired and invalid sessions
A user exit for expired and invalid sessions is now available. You can customize the handling of expired sessions to enable users to re-authenticate and restart a Web application.
Improved Application Dispatcher samples
Improved Application Dispatcher samples demonstrate many features of ODS, including generating multiple output formats, building drill-down links into an application, and generating graphical output with the GIF, JAVA, and ACTIVEX drivers.

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