Accepted, Not Yet Planned

Based on the information provided, this is not a priority for a programmatic fix in the product.

update xpp command update_JT

The command use to update the job ticket update_JT is useful for many purposes, but  as of xpp 9.3.1 it does not update the field in the job ticket sessions saved. 

Our site has thousands of archived documents that it republishes weekly, and most of those old jobs are set to save two or three sessions. Ug. 

We would like to set the sessions field to "none" in the batch environment in order to not have to deal with all the additional page files saved during multi-compose processing. 

Of course, we can convert the job ticket to XML/ASCII , update the field, and convert it back to binary. That will help. 

It would, however, save cycles and be more efficient if we could flash the job ticket with a command line option from update_JT to reset that field in a single step. 

This would simplify our reprocessing of older, archived documents, and any simplification of batch processing is a good thing overall. 

Thanks for considering this enhancement. 

Regards, 

John

John Hoffman

  • John,

    Indeed update_jt can almost change every and any field in the job ticket, but not the number of sessions saved.
    So I do support your idea, with one change and that is not to use "none" as the value but "1" if you want to keep the minimum number of sessions.
    (you will need the keep at least 1 session after compose if you want to print things or do anything else, keeping nothing after compose would be rather useless :-)