The Retry failed COM commands… setting tries to remedy some of the instability of word processors. Word processors are used by ITP to print and reformat documents. They have a tendency to fail every now and again. This could be a problem in a batch run. This setting will retry a COM command if it fails, increasing the chance that the job can continue to be processed.
The setting Release external COM resources after x actions is related to the previous setting. COM resources have a tendency to hog resources to a point that commands will fail. To prevent this the COM resource is shut down after the set number of times to give the operating system a change to reclaim resources.
The Terminate COM commands after ... seconds ... settings set a default time-out for all COM commands in the scripting language. If a call to a COM resource exceeds this time-out the associated word processor will be terminated and a runtime error is reported to the script.
Scripts can override or enable/disable the time-outs by using the appropriate TimeOut(...) value on each command. The ITP/Document Processor distinguishes between interactive jobs (submitted through an ITP/OnLine Server client) and batch jobs (submitted through an ITP/Server client) and will use the appropriate time-out.
Setting one of these settings to 0 will disable the default time-out for those jobs.
The ITP/Document Processor will always monitor the word processor for known interactive windows. Such windows are closed whenever possible to allow the job to continue. If this is not possible the word processor process will be forcibly terminated.
Note
The time-out and interactivity monitoring is currently only implemented for Microsoft Word.