Vital Signs 1.7

Overview

Version 1.7 was released in the Fall of 2015. Upgrading from 1.5 & 1.6 to 1.7 is a fairly simple process. Contact Vital Soft support for assistance in upgrading.

Whats New In Version 1.7

Host Extracts:

• Improved recovery after a job failure.
• New RESUME parameter for JVSRELOAD.
• New JVSCLEANUP job for deleting old QVD files.
• Extract of all Member, Share & Loan control flags.
• Improved extract of share div-rates

Membership Documents:

• Tracking of Member Services based on control flags.
• Ability to track an open/close date for services (based on control flags).
• Added campaign tracking in Membership_Analysis
• New New_Loan_Activity document

Windows Configuration Changes:

• New local bin folder: x:/vitalsigns/cuname/bin
• VitalSigns.ini, new tab for LoadMbrData

Document Distribution Changes:

• Need a list

Bug Fixes:

• Fix bug where a duplicate key can be created in ACCTXREF.

Update Instructions

Local Bin Files

• A new local bin directory has been created in X:/vitalsigns/CUNAME/bin
• The following files must be moved to this location

• All custom bin files previously located in: X:/vitalsigns/bin/custom

(The X:/vitalsigns/bin/custom directory should be removed after moving the files.)

• start_vsigns_srv.vbs (moved from data/config)

(Edit this file to update the path to the ini file, see below)

• vsigns_srv.ini (moved from data/config)

Configuration Changes

• Add the following settings to vsigns_srv.ini:

INI Key Field (Note)	Default Value	Purpose
QV_UNICODE	UTF-8	For Qlik versions 11.2 and later use UTF-16LE.
QVD_DELETE_OK	N	Set this to "Y" to enable deleting old QVD files with JVSCLEANUP.
HIST_QVD_NDAYS	750	Number of days of raw HIST QVDs to keep. Minimum is 400 days (roughly 13 months).
MBR_QVD_NDAYS	750	Number of days of raw MBRSHLN QVDs to keep. Minimum is 400 days (roughly 13 months).
MBR_QVD_NMTHENDS (2)	60	Number of monthend days of raw MBRSHLN QVDs to keep. Minimum is 25 monthend days.