Enhancement Summary

Version 9.0

This enhancement summary describes new features and major enhancements incorporated into Version 9.0 of ASG-Cypress (herein called Cypress).

ASG ACCESS Portal Updates and Service Packs

ASG’s Intelligent Support Portal (ISP) has been changed to ASG Customer Care Expert Solution Services (ACCESS) Portal.

We encourage you to visit ACCESS Portal: http://access.asg.com to verify whether any product or documentation revisions, new maintenance, or service packs apply to this product release.

Version 9.0 Upgrade Considerations: Update

Before you perform the upgrade to 9.0, you must request a new license file and install into the Cypress server. If not, Cypress will not start after the upgrade and you must run the Cypress server under emergency mode until you load a new license.

This table provides additional guidance in regard to optimizing the upgrade process for ASG-Cypress, Version 9.0.

This process is very important when upgrading from Version 7.2 or earlier.

Utilizing these strategies/settings will help to minimize the amount of time required for the overall upgrade to Version 9.0.

Function

Strategy

I/O speed

Utilize the environment that will provide you with the fastest possible I/O (input/output).

The faster the disk, the faster the process will run and the faster the reindex will conclude.

allow_lock_pages_in_memory

Set allow_lock_pages_in_memory for the Cypress service account.

This setting allows the Cypress cache size to be increased beyond the 731MB limit. Note that this does not affect performance directly, but is a prerequisite for setting a larger cache size.

Refer to the ASG-Cypress System Administrator’s, “Managing Windows Extended Memory” topic for additional information on this setting.

cache size

For the duration of the upgrade, maximize the cache size (db_cache size) to 4GB (your machine permitting, of course).

If you are running on a Virtual Machine, temporarily increase the RAM available to the Cypress Server so that the db_cache size can be increased. This action can greatly reduce the time it takes to reindex the documents.

Remember to set these values back to their original settings for normal Cypress processing.

Enhancements Introduced In Version 9.0

This topic describes new features added to Cypress 9.0.

Print Services

This feature contains several modules:

  • Dashboard and Printer Manager UI—it can be configured to talk with either a Print Service or an on-premise Print Agent or a Cypress Stub.
  • Print Service—it is a REST service that runs on one or multiple on-premise print agents. The Print Service offers more user friendly features to identify and manage printers.
  • On-Prem Print Agent—it is a REST service that is deployed on premise to communicate with printers on intranet.
  • Cypress Stub—it is used for interface with a Cypress server to provide the same REST API as the print agent, for a Cypress customer.
  • The Output Dashboard—it is a Web UI application that presents dashboard for printer status with alerts on abnormal conditions, job status, and some limited printer management capabilities for alert situation.

See the Print Services topic for more information.

URI

Cypress has been enhanced with the ability to set a URI into a document which will be emitted as a hyperlink in an output PDF. This URI can be specified through an Inline Command (through both the Formatter and the Capture Driver), by CPF functions, or in Spruce. The text of the URI and its location on the page are specified, along with an optional line width for drawing a rectangle around the hyperlink.

See the Using Cypress InLine Commands, Managing Sticky Notes,and The page Object topics for more information.

System Admin

A new Monarch_Apply_Matrix global dialect causes Cypress to apply any matrices in the document when creating the file to export to Monarch. This may be necessary when exporting captured PDF documents.

The description of db_prog rename_dv command has been enhanced. This command forces a reindex of all the documents in the DocuVault. This may take a while depending on the number of documents in the DocuVault.

See the Additional Global Dialects topic for more information.

Output Environment

Two new dialects have been added to Output Environment.

The send_doc_creator dialect sends the document creator (instead of the job name) as the title. The send_identity_creator dialect sends the recipient identity, if there is one, followed by the document creator as the title.

See the Device Dialects topic for more information.

Advanced Formatting

A new substitute_pcl_ttf format dialect has been implemented. This dialect substitutes embedded PCL 5 TrueType fonts instead of capturing the fonts per document.

See the Format Dialects topic for more information.