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Robert Cemper · Jul 20, 2019

Your terminal prompt can be configured to display the instance. 

see TerminalPrompt  eg.  config>namespace>

[Startup]    TerminalPrompt="3,2"

and you name your config  "SMP<portnumber>"    which should be valid.
eventually only "<portnumber> " might do it as well.

On the page System Administration > Configuration > Additional Settings > Startup, in the TerminalPrompt row, select Edit.

Robert Cemper · Jul 19, 2019

ENSEMBLE may have some signal mechanic.

BUT at Caché level you still have Special Variable $HALT as the last chance handler.
all details https://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=RCOS_vhalt

Most important: 

If you have $HALT set and also have code defined for ^%ZSTOP when a HALT is issued, the $HALT is executed first. $HALT can prevent the termination of the process, if its halt trap routine does not contain a HALT command.   !!!!

Robert Cemper · Jul 18, 2019

the popular use of is INTERACTIVE.

But there is a BATCH option:   

SAMPLES>zn "%SYS"
 
%SYS>d BATCH^GBLOCKCOPY
 
1) Manage Batches
2) Run a Batch
3) Restart a Batch
4) Add Processes to a running Batch
5) Stop a Running batch
6) Monitor Running Batch
7) Batch Report
8) Exit
 
Option? 1
 
1) Create a Batch
2) Edit a Batch
3) List Batches
4) Delete a Batch
5) Exit
 
Option?

I never used it myself.

it seems to me you should find it in  ^%SYS("GBLOCKCOPY")

But the source code is open in %SYS and easy to read:

BATCH
 w !
 w !,"1) Manage Batches"
 w !,"2) Run a Batch"
 w !,"3) Restart a Batch"
 w !,"4) Add Processes to a running Batch"
 w !,"5) Stop a Running batch"
 w !,"6) Monitor Running Batch"
 w !,"7) Batch Report"
 w !,"8) Exit"
 w !
 s Option=$$OPTION("Option? ",8,8)
 i Option=1 d BATCHMANAGE g BATCH
 i Option=2 d BATCHRUN g BATCH
 i Option=3 d BATCHRESTART g BATCH
 i Option=4 d BATCHADDPROCESSES g BATCH
 i Option=5 d BATCHSTOP g BATCH
 i Option=6 d BATCHMONITOR g BATCH
 i Option=7 d BATCHREPORT g BATCH
 q
BATCHMANAGE
 w !
 w !,"1) Create a Batch"
 w !,"2) Edit a Batch"
 w !,"3) List Batches"
 w !,"4) Delete a Batch"
 w !,"5) Exit"
 w !
 s Option=$$OPTION("Option? ",5,5)
 i Option=1 d BATCHCREATE g BATCHMANAGE
 i Option=2 d BATCHEDIT g BATCHMANAGE
 i Option=3 d BATCHLIST g BATCHMANAGE
 i Option=4 d BATCHDELETE g BATCHMANAGE
 q
BATCHCREATE s $zt="BATCHE"
 s Name=$$GETNAME("Batch name to create? ",0,0) q:POP
 f  w !!,"Adding to batch: "_Name d BATCHSETUP q:POP
 g BATCHCREATE
BATCHEDIT   s $zt="BATCHE"
 s Name=$$GETNAME("Batch name to edit? ",1,0) q:POP
 s Status=$$GETSTATUS(Name,1)
 i $p(Status,"~",4)'="Queue" w !,"Batch "_Name_" has been run, please re-enter" g BATCHEDIT
 i $$YN("Do you want to add to the batch","Y")="Y" f  w !!,"Adding to batch: "_Name d BATCHSETUP q:POP
 i $$YN("Do you want to delete entries from batch "_Name,"N")="N" g BATCHEDIT
BATCHEDIT1
 d SUMMARYREPORT(Name,0)
 s Option=$$OPTION("Delete which entry? ",0,+$o(^|"^^"_$zu(12)|%SYS("GBLOCKCOPY",Name,""),-1))
 i Option=0 g BATCHEDIT
. . . . . . . .

HTH,

Robert Cemper · Jul 17, 2019

to count the number of changes you may use this approach

 Set ^Data("Cambridge") = "1" if  $increment(change("Cambridge"))
 Set ^Data("New York") = "2" if  $increment(change("New York"))
 Set ^Data("Boston") = "3" if  $increment(change("Boston"))
 Set ^Data("London") = "4" if  $increment(change("London"))
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "5" if  $increment(change("Athens"))
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "6" if  $increment(change("Athens"))
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "7" if  $increment(change("Athens"))

zw change

change("Athens")=3
change("Boston")=1
change("Cambridge")=1 
change("London")=1 
change("New York")=1
Robert Cemper · Jul 12, 2019

This is a rather common misunderstanding.
The naming GLOBAL was created in the 60ties.
Long before any other programming language even had anything named Global or similar.

GLOBAL in Caché is a persistent storage component that builds the backbone of (SQL) Tables and Persistent Objects.

see this documentation: Using Caché Globals

Robert Cemper · Jul 10, 2019

the data property is a standard HTML page.
I'm not aware of some function in Caché that converts HTML to JSON.

But asking Google "convert HTML to JSON"  shows that this a standard feature in JavaScript. 
so I see 2 options:

- write your own parser (or someone in the community has done this before ???) 

- call an external tool (eg. node.js) to it for you

see:   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34504050/how-to-convert-selected-html-to-json

or  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12980648/map-html-to-json

or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43469412/convert-html-source-code-to-json-object