5.4

Job List Commands
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For instance, to find out who locked a story in PEOPLE.SMITH, type:
wholockedit people.smith
To find out who last modified each story in a queue, type wholockedit followed by the name of
the queue and the option
-a .
Job List Commands
The following section provides a list of commands that can be used in a job list, which is created
and modified in the database. The command’s format and description are provided, followed by
a list of servers that can utilize the command in their job lists.
at
at <hh:mm>
Specifies the time of day when a task will take place. You can combine this instruction with the
keyword on to specify both the day and time for the task. Applies to action servers and tx links.
blockmode
blockmode [yes|no]
Only for txnet. Comes after scan line(s) and before an open instruction. This is to allow multiple
stories to be transferred over a single TCP data connection instead of a new connection for each
story. This uses the FTP mode command with a B parameter.
Some customers send many changing stories via FTP to third part FTP servers. This can
consume many TCP port numbers and with a large TIME_WAIT setting prevents the reuse of
those port numbers. This can lead to “port exhaustion,” that is no ports available for further
transfers. When using Stream Transfer Mode, the end-of-file is denoted by the closing of the data
connection, hence the need for a new connection for every transfer.
wholockedit Command Options
-a See all stories.
-e Show empty fields.
-- Use when <queue name> begins with a hyphen (-).