Previously, after you started a PowerExchange Condense job on z/OS or i5/OS, the Controller task started and then started the Command Handler and Condense subtasks concurrently. In PowerExchange 10.1, the Controller starts the Command Handler subtask and waits for the Command Handler to reply with a initialization complete event before starting the Condense subtask.
This initialization behavior allows the Command Handler to respond to commands immediately after it initializes, instead of waiting for the Condense subtask to finish initialization. Also, because the initialization sequence of the subtasks is now always the same, the message output from startup processing is more consistent.
The following additional changes improve PowerExchange Condense performance:
PowerExchange Condense tracks and reports fewer status events.
PowerExchange Condense no longer uses a Dump subtask, also called the Dump Handler, for dumping some memory in hexadecimal format.