Bonnie, you wrote:

> I'm thinking of implementing Orbit's ZERODOWN option. Would like to hear any
> positive or negative stories?

Generally it has been quite good but I think it depends what version you
are using. We had a lot of problems with the SYNCWAIT initially as it
was okay if all the processing before the SYNCWAIT point had finished
before the SYNCWAIT time arrived but if it was still doing processing
past the SYNCWAIT point, it would just carry on instead of waiting until
manual intervention as the manual documented, I believe. (I got this
second-hand so please bear with me if it's not 100% correct.) We had to
implement a command file to handle it. Also, recently, I had a backup
abort with a Flush Error... and Orbit suggested I move up to version
6.01 from the current 5.47G. This may have been related to the CM file
problem as there appears to be a small window where updates can cause
problems with certain files. It is supposed to be fixed in 6.01.

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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