Obsolete and Changed Items

Many new features have been added in version 10.0 of SmartBatch (see What's New In Version 10.0).  Some features from versions previous to 4.0 (SmartBatch32) have been eliminated as their usefulness has been replaced with improved functionality in most cases.

Search Strings and Exit Code

The search string and exit code capabilities have been replaced with the Keyword Expression and Exit Code Expression on the Operation Properties window.  .NET provide the regular expression capability which is a much more powerful pattern string matching capability.  SmartBatch takes advantage of regular expressions in several areas of the product.  Search String and Exit Code matching in previous releases provided a simple matching capability to determine the success or failure of the Operation.  

File Watch

The implementation of the File Watch Dependency has been changed.  An Operation, Step or Job that is associated with a file watch can no longer have a schedule.  The Operation, Step or Job with the file watch dependency will be executed when the event for the dependency occurs.  The event is dependent on the file watch configuration as specified on the Dependency Properties window.

SmartAppLets

The following SmartAppLets have been deprecated:

SmartEventLog
 SmartRAS
 SmartSearchFile
 SmartShutdown
 SmartStartup

The following SmartAppLets are available:

SmartDatabaseOperation
 SmartDeleteLog
 SmartProcessMonitor
 SmartReplace
 SmartServiceMonitor
 SmartWait
 SmartSendMail
 SmartSetParameter

Date Parameters

Date parameters now support the underlying date format specifiers used in .NET.  See the Date and Time Parameter Formats topic for the specific formats supported.   If you are upgrading for a previous version of SmartBatch, you will want to make sure that any date formatting you use in Parameters matches the new format.

Notification

The ability to notify by the Window Messenger service has been removed from SmartBatch.