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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION XL Release 3.0 (B.30.00) Overview by Gayla Kohlmoos/Myrna Allen Commercial Systems Division The Commercial Systems XL Release 3.0 (B.30.00) introduces many new products and contains performance enhancements to existing products. This commercial release of MPE XL further extends the functionality of the MPE XL operating system. SYSTEM PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION The MPE XL Operating System now supports multiple processors (MP). The new MP system features are: symmetric multiprocessor operation, automatic processor configuration, and user transparency. The new HP 3000 Series 980/200 fully supports multiprocessing. This release introduces the HP 3000 Series 948 and 958 Systems, two midrange systems that offer unparalled performance in an entry level package. Both systems provide an easy, cost-effective field upgrade that will boost your system performance beyond the Series 932. SPU Switchover/XL is a new product that features the ability of an SPU to take over the processing of information from another SPU. This Feature is particularly useful for achieving a high level of processing on an SPU. Included with this release of MPE are two new TurboSTORE/XL products, TurboSTORE/XL II with Support for Rewritable Optical Disks and TurboSTORE/XL II with Support for Rewritable Optical Disks and Online Backup. The major features of these two new products are: Rewritable Optical Disk Library System, operatorless backup and file restore, Magneto-Optical Utility Support, MPE XL SCSI support, and all TurboSTORE/XL features. The Architected Interface Facility (AIF) includes procedure enhancements for both the AIF: Operating System and the AIF: Measurement Interface. Both products have also been enhanced to support the MP environment. The AIF: Procedure Exits is a new product that belongs to the Architected Interface Facility of products. Although this product is primarily targeted for 3rd party developers, any MPE XL product developer can use this product to augment MPE XL operating system functionality. Developers can specify certain procedures to be executed in place of, or in addition to, existing procedures within system or user code/applications in Compatibility and Native Mode. Enhancements have been added to this release of the MPE XL system security. New features have been added to file and device access control, logon access, batch submission, and system auditing. Both the operating system and networking software have been enhanced to support the following increases: concurrent jobs or sessions from 600 to 850, concurrent processes from 1559 to 3119, Distributed Terminal Controllers (DTCs) terminal connections from 600 to 850, remote connections from 300 to 600, and a larger number of networked connections. Command I/O Redirection (CIOR) gives you the ability to redirect the input or output of Command Interpreter (CI) commands. CIOR is primarily for the advanced MPE XL user, such as system managers and system programmers. The format of the transaction management (XM) log files has been changed to support enhancements to TurboIMAGE/XL. The XM log files on the system volume set will automatically be converted to the new format when the system is updated to this release. Log files on other volume sets will also be automatically converted the first time the volume set is mounted on an updated system. Included is specific information on storage capacity that you will need to consider when configuring your new HP 3000/980 system. Properly matching your storage capacity with your application needs will prevent unnecessary swapping activity and help achieve maximum system performance. The TUNE command now allows you to modify the timeslice values for the CS, DS, and ES queues. The SHOW command has been modified to display the actual quantum value and timeslice value for each of the CS, DS, and ES queues. The STREAM command has been changed to schedule and reschedule jobs more consistently and flexibly, without altering the syntax of the command. In order to properly estimate your system's dump storage requirements, information is included in a separate article to help you understand and plan your disk space needs. HP Motif XL is a new product for client/server application developers. HP Motif XL uses OSF/Motif, a product of the Open Software Foundation (OSF) that is based on the X Window System (X). This initial release of HP Motif consists of the relocatable libraries, C header (include) files and learning products necessary to develop X applications on MPE XL. With the proper hardware, your HP Motif application can present graphics and a graphical user interface. HP VPLUS/Windows is a new product that is a Microsoft Windows-based user interface for VPLUS applications. The VPLUS/Windows graphical user interface provides features such as cut and paste, context sensitive help and the ability to run multiple VPLUS applications concurrently. VPLUS has been enhanced to include two new utilities called VCYCLE and VFNAMES. VCYCLE offers you a way to preview forms in a VPLUS forms file. VFNAMES creates a file containing the names of all the forms in a specified forms file, and can be used with VCYCLE to preview the forms file. The MPE XL Manual sets that normally accompany each release have been revised with this MPE XL release. A list of these new and revised manuals is included in an article in this Communicator. HP LaserRX/MPE (version B.00.00) encompasses many product changes and enhancements and must be properly updated and synchronized with this XL Release 3.0 installation. Specific details about support and migration issues are addressed. Information on Hewlett-Packard system accounts is included in order to avoid any confusion with your user accounts. DATA COMMUNICATIONS This XL release introduces support for LAN Manager, a networking component of New Wave Office, with this initial release of the Application Program Interface (API) Named Pipes. LAN Manager/XL Named Pipes is specifically designed to enable application programs to talk to each other and exchange information, and continue to build on the benefits of client/server computing. HP Software Integration Sockets/XL (HP Sockets) is a new product that provides flexible data transfer, transformation, manipulation and process control of new or existing applications. With HP Sockets your data can be transferred within any properly configured MPE XL and HP-UX computer network. HP Sockets also features programmatic start and stop of local and remote processes, and a simple yet powerful application program interface (API). Enhancements have been made to the Datacommunications and Terminal Controller (DTC/3000). New features include duplex printing and an increase in the number of configured devices, and programmatic control of the typeahead echo mode. The HP ARPA File Transfer Protocol (FTP) product includes the following enhancements that will increase your capabilities: Multiple Get (MGET), Put (MPUT), and Delete (MDELETE), Toggle case mode (CASE) and interactive prompting (PROMPT), and FTP user command prompting and online help. A number of ARPA FTP commands have also been added. LANGUAGES This new version of HP COBOL II/XL has been enhanced to provide you with dynamic file assignment, a special register for interprogram communication, and improved reporting of nonstandard COBOL features. HP C/XL includes enhancements to the compiler and the library. FORTRAN 77/XL has been enhanced with new compiler directives and new options to existing directives. These additions make it easier to migrate from FORTRAN 77 on the HP 1000 and HP 9000 Series 300 and 500. This version of FORTRAN 77/XL also provides increased compatibility with the DEC/VMS. DATABASE TOOLS XL Release 3.0 introduces DBChange Plus, a new database restructuring tool for use by TurboIMAGE/XL administrators. DBChange Plus features include: command-driven interface, data set repacking, capacity management, database integrity checking, and erasable data sets. This release includes a new feature that has been added to TurboIMAGE/XL, Dynamic Rollback. Dynamic Rollback allows uncommitted logical transactions to be rolled back while other database activity is occurring. The MUSTRECOVER feature has been added to TurboIMAGE. With this enhancement, database operators can ensure that a database is recovered after a system failure before it is accessed by users. Multiple Database Transaction Logging (MDBX) is a function that has been added to TurboIMAGE, which spans multiple databases. This new transaction allows you to group multiple TurboIMAGE intrinsic calls into transactions that can be treated as a single unit of work. ALLBASE/DB2 CONNECT is a new product that provides the following features: reads DB2 data, updates or inserts DB2 data, provides full support of the DB2 SQL Data Manipulation Language, provides transparent translation of data between DB2 and ALLBASE/SQL, and shares SNA communications access to the IBM server. ALLBASE/NET now allows you to access ALLBASE/SQL databases that are physically located on different machines. This access to the remote databases is completely transparent to you. ALLBASE/SQL includes enhancements in the following areas: standards, performance, high availability, usability, and ISV tools support. The DICTDBM utility of Dictionary/3000 has been enhanced with a new message catalog called DBMCAT. SUPPORT TOOLS The new version of HP Predictive Support software has been modified to run on XL Release 3.0. HP Predictive Support monitors system memory, disk drives, and tape drives for users with HP SuccessLine hardware support agreements. PERIPHERALS The HP 795xB disk units are not supported on MPE XL, and clarification regarding these units is addressed in this Communicator. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE PRODUCTS NewWave Office 3.0 provides a new structure of products that can be selected and customized from a menu. There are also a number of changes and additional services provided with this version of NewWave. The Information Access services of HP NewWave Office allow you to spend less time gathering data and more time analyzing and solving business problems. Two new products have been added that enable the PC to connect to and retrieve information from HP ALLBASE/SQL and ORACLE databases. In addition, this release contains enhancements to Information Access Server and Information Access PC. The new version of HP DeskManager includes the following enhancements: the Electronic Corporate Directory facility builds on existing tools to provide more automation in the remote directory update features. In addition, the product has been enhanced to: increase the number of computers that the transport manager can schedule mail to, change the name matching algorithm to show exact matches and supersets only, and provide additional support for the IBM 3270 terminal. This version of ALLBASE/4GL provides you with three new features: dynamic loading of 3GL objects, recall of item names, and improved access to the catalog of application items. HP ALLBASE/BRW now supports HP ALLBASE/SQL. Four System Functions have been added to HP ALLBASE/BRW that are used in conditions and calculated items. In order to increase the functionality of HP BRW/V in compatibility mode on XL releases, four new system functions have been added. These new functions are called TO_INTEGER, TO_REAL, TO_NUMERIC, and TO_STRING. HP EDIT/V, HP EDIT/XL, HP BROWSE/V and HP BROWSE/XL are now supporting the same method for displaying non-printable characters.