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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION MPE/iX Release 4.0 (B.40.00) Overview by Gayla Kohlmoos Commercial Systems Division The Commercial Systems MPE/iX Release 4.0 (B.40.00) introduces many new products and contains performance enhancements to a number of existing products. SYSTEM PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION Beginning with this Commercial Systems Release, the MPE operating system has a new name. MPE XL is now renamed to MPE/iX. This renaming reflects our commitment to openness through the support of key standards on the HP 3000, which includes the delivery of POSIX. MPE/iX Release 4.0 is the first platform release for MPE/iX software. As with the MPE/V Platform Release strategy, an MPE/iX Platform Release provides an extremely stable release that is supported for an extended period of time while allowing the easy receipt of specific new functionality, product enhancements, and patches. In addition, there are some implementation details unique to MPE/iX. As a reminder, the support termination dates for XL Release 2.2, 3.0, and 3.1 are explained. This release introduces the HP 3000 Corporate Business Systems. These systems deliver mainframe performance, data center management functionality, and high availability at a significantly lower cost of ownership than traditional mainframes. If you are a current HP 3000 high-end customer, you can upgrade to the Corporate Business Systems platform and increase your system performance while gaining greater connectivity and configurability. Hewlett-Packard expands its systems offering with the HP 3000 9x7 systems, a family of computer systems that provide seamless upgrades and, like the HP 3000 Corporate Business Systems, offer lower cost of ownership than the competition. HP Easytime/iX is an easy-to-use, window-based interface to commonly performed system management functions on low-end MPE/iX systems. The context-sensitive online help facility was designed with the novice user in mind and provides simple, concise information. Experienced users, such as system managers, also have the flexibility to customize the user interface for specific end-user services and to utilize full MPE/iX functionality. AUTOINST/XL has added a number of enhancements with this MPE/iX release. These enhancements include a new INSTALL.SYS group, a combined installation tool, and documentation changes. This release of MPE/iX includes enhancements to the TAPE command in SYSGEN. These enhancements allow you to combine the SLT and STORE file sets onto one tape or tape set. This enhancement improves the overall efficiency of creating and archiving a system backup. The UPDATE program now performs a system check for a least 60,000 continguous sectors of disk space on LDEV 1 before performing an udpate. The JOBINFO intrinsic is enhanced with eleven new items. These new items fall into the following three areas: 32-bit spool file numbers, session quiet mode, and job and session submitter information. A new intrinsic called HPSELECT is now available. With HPSELECT you can determine whether a file or a group of files in a process are ready to perform reads, writes, or has an exception. MPE/iX now supports up to a maximum of 2330 logical devices. This change may affect the use of your ASOCIATE.PUB.SYS file. This release of MPE/iX includes software resiliency changes. These changes improve the way KSAM XL and volume management handle fatal error detection. The FORMSALIGN command and how it performs with, or without, the FORMID is explained in detail. The FORMID parameter was introduced in XL Release 2.1 and allows you to treat related sets of spool files requiring special forms as a group. The DUMP facility and the Dump Analysis Tool (DAT) include enhancements to their data compression algorithm. On the average, the dump size required to perform a system dumb has been reduced by 50 percent. Most file types now support a maximum file size of 4 gigabytes, which allows you to manage larger amounts of data. The impact of this file size increase on applications and file portability are outlined. Native Language Support is now available for KSAM XL files. AutoRestart/XL enhancements offer a less restrictive dump-to-disk environment and a new toggle for the restart feature. The Architected Interface Facility: Operating System (AIF: OS) enhancements include information access AIFs for devices and device classes, new functional interfaces for KSAM XL, and additional functionality for AIF ports. Mirrored Disk/iX has been enhanced to distinguish between a source volume read error, a source volume hard error, and a distination volume error during a disk repair. HP Motif/iX includes the following enhancements: the User Interface Language (UIL) compiler, the associated Motif Resource Manager (MRM) library, a set of standard bitmap description files, and improved performance. The TurboSTORE/iX II with Optical Support products have been enhanced with increased backup performance, and the ability to load and unload specific pieces of media. All TurboSTORE/iX products have been enhanced to include a new option called RENAME. During a STORE, the RENAME option allows you to rename the files stored to tape while maintaining your original files and their attributes on disk. TurboSTORE/iX Online Backup now offers a free 90-day trial copy. VPLUS includes the following three new enhancements: native character recognition for the MATCH statement, new state codes for the $STATE table, and the VGETARBINFO intrinsic used for retrieving VPLUS ARB field mapping information. The Hewlett-Packard new binding standards are being introduced with this release of MPE/iX manuals. Information on Hewlett-Packard system accounts is included in order to avoid any confusion with your user accounts. DATA COMMUNICATIONS Berkeley Sockets/iX is now a part of the Hewlett-Packard data communications offering and provides the 4.3 version of Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) interprocess-communication (IPC) facilities known as BSD Sockets. Both datagram and stream communication types are supported, and can operate on Local and Internet domains. This initial release of Berkeley Sockets/iX includes 13 system calls and offers a number of naming services routines. Token Ring 3000/iX Network Link is a new product that provides a native token ring connection for the HP 3000 Series 900 system with HP-PB (HP Precision Bus or NIO) backplane. This product allows you to connect your HP 3000 Series 900 system to a token ring network that is compatible with either an IEEE802.5 or IBM Token Ring or both. NetWare for the HP 3000 provides you with PC Services functionality from Novell Inc. With NetWare for the HP 3000, NetWare clients can use NetWare capabilities on the HP 3000 as well as on native NetWare servers. The services available with NetWare for the HP 3000 include: file and printer sharing, server administration functions, connection maintenance, bindery facility, print queue management, and accounting services. FTAM/XL is the Hewlett-Packard implementation of File Transfer, Access and Management (FTAM) on the MPE/iX system. FTAM is a standard derived from the International Standards Organization (ISO). With FTAM/XL you are able to transfer files to and from the remote system, to rename and delete files on the remote system, to read the attributes of a remote file, and to utilize the FTAM responder for remote FTAM access. Included with this MPE/iX release is Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), a de facto standard for managing TCP/IP networks. With HP SNMP/XL your HP 3000 Series 900 can actively participate in the management of the network in which it resides. An HP 3000 with HP SNMP/XL installed can report fault, performance, and configuration information to one or more network management stations. Host Based X.25 provides management functions for DTCs that are connected to a single host through a LAN and that are accessing an X.25 network. Beginning with XL Release 3.1, Host Based X.25 is part of the fundamental operating system (FOS). This version of Host Based X.25 Management includes a new trace formatter and X.25 diagnostics, powerfail/autorestart recovery for the DTC, and changes to how product and X.25 parameter configurations are performed. The Network Computing System (NCS) Runtime product is now available on the HP 3000 with this MPE/iX release. With NCS, application developers can develop client and server software to run on a number of different vendors' systems. The NCS Runtime product includes the Remote Procedure Call (RP) facility, Location Brokers, and diagnostic tools. HP Sockets/XL adds system administration capability to MPE/iX systems, so that network access to an HP-UX computer running HP Sockets/UX is no longer required. LU 6.2 API/XL is enhanced with peer-to-peer capability for program-to-program communication over Type 2.1 nodes. ARPA Transport enhancements provide an increased feature set, better performance, increased connectivity capacity, and support for a token ring-type network. OpenView System Manager is enhanced to run under MS Windows 3.0 in enhanced mode. Now you can take advantage of the increased capacity provided by the enhanced memory management features of MS Windows 3.0. In addition, you can now access the system console through either a modem or back-to-back DTC, as well as through the traditional PAD. This version of DTC/3000 Terminal I/O includes a number of enhancements that provide added functionality related to DTC, Field Mode, the system, and support tools. ThinLAN 3000/XL includes enhancements that provide standard network logging and tracing. Through the use of the LINKCONTROL command, you can enable or disable tracing and control the level of tracing. Both network log and trace files can now be formatted using the NMDUMP utility. The LINKCONTROL command also offers four new statistics fields for the HP-PB SCSI/Console/LAN card. NMMGR/XL is enhanced with several new security features and modified maintenance mode commands. A factory preloaded multifunction I/O card is included with each HP 3000 Series 9x7 and 9x7LX system. This double-high precision bus interface provides single-ended small computer systems interface (SCSI), a local and remote console interface, access port functions, and LAN. NRJE/XL is enhanced to support the increased job numbering capabilities of JES2/JES3. This version of NRJE/XL requires special installation procedures, which are included. LANGUAGES HP Link Editor/XL includes a new parameter called SHORT_LIST that can be used to display a list of names of all the modules in your relocatable or executable library. COBOL II/XL includes enhancements that introduce built-in functions for the new Intrinsic Function module. The Intrinsic Function module consists of 42 built-in COBOL functions. These new built-in functions provide an alternative to manually coding the task in your program. HP Pascal/iX has a new feature that reduces the optimization to level 1 for any procedure with more than 500 basic blocks. This new feature helps conserve virtual memory and CPU time during a large procedure. Included with HP C/iX is a change to the C compiler that allows data in structs and unions to be aligned on half-word boundaries. DATABASE TOOLS HP ALLBASE/SQL PC API is new and provides a PC-based programmatic interface to the ALLBASE/SQL database on an HP 3000 Series 900 server. With this product you have the advantage of the PC graphical capabilities and extra processing power, while relying on the security, integrity and database management capabilities of ALLBASE/SQL on the HP 3000. TurboIMAGE/XL includes enhancements in the following functional areas: critical items, indexing, dynamic rollback recovery, IEEE floating point real number data support, and an increase to a 4 gigabyte data set size. DBChange Plus is enhanced to support the TurboIMAGE/XL enhancements for this release of MPE/iX. ALLBASE/SQL includes several major enhancements that provide significant benefits in the areas of standards, performance, usability, high availability, and tools. SUPPORT TOOLS HP Predictive Support version B.04.00 includes enhancements that support electronic connection to Hewlett-Packard through either a public data network or a dedicated leased line. In addition, hardware coverage has been expanded to cover SCSI devices and HP 5000 printers. PERIPHERALS The StorageTek 4220 and 4280 1/2 inch cartridge tape peripherals are now supported with this release of MPE/iX. These cartridge tapes are only supported with the Automatic Cartridge Loader System and the FCOPY and STORE/TurboSTORE products. Four new Hewlett-Packard HP-FL Disk Array devices are now available. These new devices provide greater storage capacity at a lower cost per byte, and value-added features derived from their use of Disk Array Technology. The HP 5000 Model F100 is the first member of Hewlett-Packard production capacity printers and is now available on MPE/iX. The Model F100 is a 100-page-per-minute, fanfold printer based on the HP Printer Command Language (PCL). You can select from a wide variety of internal bitmapped font sets, customized environment files, or off-the-shelf font packages to bring you crisp text and graphics with 300 dot-per-inch resolution. The HP Series 6400 Model 2000 is a new SCSI digital data storage (DDS) drive and is now supported on the HP 3000 Series 9x7 and 9x7LX systems. This new DDS drive offers several advantages over previous HP-IB and SCSI DDS drives including support of longer, high-capacity tapes. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE PRODUCTS HP ALLBASE/4GL enhancements include two new numeric fields and an increase in the logic block limit to 99. HP GlancePlus for MPE/iX now offers most of the HP Glance/V features you have enjoyed along with many new HP GlancePlus for MPE/iX enhancements. These enhancements offer new functionality, added configurability, and greater ease-of-use. If you have been considering HP GlancePlus for MPE/iX, you will be happy to know that there is a free 60-day trial copy of it provided with this MPE/iX release. HP GlancePlus Pak for MPE/iX combines HP GlancePlus and HP LaserRX into a single performance tool package. Even if you already have one of these two products, you can easily upgrade to HP GlancePlus Pak for MPE/iX. HP LaserRX/MPE is now autoinstallable and is included in your HP 3000 Update package if you have LaserRX/MPE support. Additional enhancements are included that improve LaserRX/MPE log file data access, storage, and analysis. Information Access SQL/XL and NewWave Access both include enhancements that provide support for the INGRES RDBMS database. In addition, NewWave Access includes new support features. ALLBASE/BRW users will be happy to know that a number of your most requested enhancements are now available. These enhancements include: a new utility, BRWDUSER.PUB.SYS, for modifying BRW dictionaries; a more user-friendly manual; two new JCWs for testing subsets of reports; greater flexibility in suppress repetition; IEEE REAL number format support; and five new JCWs for added functionality. HP DeskManager, version B.05.00, includes enhancements to its transport system, user interface, configuration, administration, and more. HP DeskManagerPLUS, version B.05.00, includes major enhancements to its transport system, user interface, configuration, and administration, as well as all of the HP DeskManager (B.05.00) enhancements. HP File/Library B.05.00 is part of this release in order for the new version of HP DeskManager and HP DeskManagerPLUS to be integrated with this product. The new versions of HP Word Intrinsics and HP Listkeeper have no changes to the product, but are included because they are now automatically installed by the AUTOINST process.