Bursting patch - ebs - questions

Hello all,
We will be implementing the bursting patch - 5968876 - this week on our environment.
xmlp - 5.6.3
ebs 11.5.10 cu2
I have a few questions that hopefully someone could answer.
1) Is there any good documentation on this process , with the new patch in place,
other than the readme in the patch files ?
2) Now that we upload a control file, will that automatically set off the bursting process,
or do we have to make a specific call for the XDOBURSTREP program to run ?
3) is CUPS a mandatory install on our server ( HP-UX 11.11) for this process ?
4) I have seen that people mention they call bursting process from an after report trigger
in a report. What if we are not using a report ? how would / could this call be made
then?
thanks much in advance
cheers...
James

I didn't get a response but I have seen a bursting control file example that uses cc so am guessing that bcc can be used.
As for the exception, I implemented a summary report that is burst to file. This always gets generated so I don't get the exception. I believe that Is what the other thread, I was looking for, did but was not able to confirm that.
Cheers,
Dave

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