New Features

*    The new qualifier /condense=x can be used to replay a recorded watch file showing only every xth screen. This significantly speeds up playback without changing the cumulative statistics that Watch has calculated. The qualifier can also be used with the /print qualifier to create a condensed printout of the contents of a record file.

*    A new, wider, display screen has been added. To view the screen specify /wide on the watch command line. /Wide can also be specified with the /print qualifier to create a wider report format. The original 80 column screen is still the default screen; /narrow can also be specified to get this screen. The wider screen has more room for numeric values and should eliminate many of the overflow conditions that customers have been experiencing on larger systems.

*    Some customers have reported problems with the total memory size display in Watch. This problem only occurs on certain AXP hardware and a new method for determining the total memory size has been added; the installation will automatically copy the correct module onto your system depending on what version of OpenVMS the system is running.

*    The /end_time qualifier does not always work properly when large /interval values are specified. This problem has been fixed in this release.

*    It is now possible to watch more than 5 disks. Specify /disk=all on the watch command all to instruct watch to monitor all the disks included in the watch disknames.dat file. The top 5 total i/o users will be displayed, in descending order, for each interval. All the disks will be included in the record file, if data is being reocrded, and will be shown in the summary report.

*    For consistency with all other Cohort products the watch disknames.dat file is now looked for in the WATCH_DAT directory instead of WATCH_EXE. Please be sure to move your disknames.dat file to this new location OR run the watch_com:create_disk_file.com procedure to recreate it in the correct location.