PL200GB.ZIP - Notes

PicLan build 2.0.0.16 is intended to correct the following reported problems with 2.0.0.10:

PicLan SERVER-PROCESS virtual abort

Forward Link Zero R15 at 793:0AB

This abort occurs on the receiving end of Pick to Pick copy operations using PL-COPY.  In order for the abort to be encountered there must be a large number of items of varying sizes.  The abort is also network and system timing dependent.  It typically takes a copy of several tens of thousands of items to encounter the error.
This error appears to be a bug in the PicLan buffer management routine and has to do with frame boundaries and re-using workspace within the PicLan buffer.  The buffer routine in abs frame PL-8 has been modified to, hopefully, not encounter this problem.
Testing with test data copying 750,000 items has been completed without incident.

PicLan SERVER-PROCESS log inefficiency

The PicLan SERVER-PROCESS activity log is designed to keep the last 200 entries.  This is done so that the log file will not fill up with too many entries.  The log file is also flagged as a DY file so that the system incremental save functions will not save deleted item ids.
On Mentor PRO, the DY flagging does not appear to work and the log file will grow very large with deleted item entries for incremental saves. PicLan has been modified to periodically CLEARFILE the log file in order to reset the incremental save functions.  This is a bug in Mentor PRO that PicLan has had to work around.
If you are using PicLan for high-volume file transfer operations and particularily for transferring large number of items Pick to Pick, you should consider toggleing the SERVER-PROCESS log off to improve transfer performance.  You can toggle the log frame by typeing MONITOR-SERVER and pressing 'L'.

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