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Charlie, > Some of our "old" utilities were developed to retrieve data by ignoring the > rules defined in pqact.conf. > > For example : > > ./NpqRead -q ldm.pq -f test123 > > (The data "test123" would be retrieved from queue and saved to file "test123") > > ./NpqSeek 1 -f aaa.txt > > (The latest data would be retrieved from queue and saved to file "aaa.txt") I don't see why you would do it that way rather than use pqact(1). The actions you describe could be accomplished by the following pqact.conf entries: ANY test123 FILE -close test123 ANY aaa\.txt FILE -close aaa.txt > We know those utilites might be out of time. However, lots of our system use > them. So we would like to renew them without changing usages. We hope to know > if LDM 6 provides similar functionality. You could do the same thing using pqact(1), but it would be less efficient that using pqact(1). For example pqcat -f ANY -p test123 >test123 pqcat -f ANY -p 'aaa\.txt' >aaa.txt > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > > Charlie Chang Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: MIY-342905 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed