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Following are brief descriptions of the articles and chapters. MPE/iX Patches on HP Electronic Support Center | |
MPE patches are now available on HP Electronic Support Center
via the Internet to all customers. For more details, refer to the
article, "MPE/iX Patches Now on HP Electronic Support Center," in
this chapter. HP Instant Information CD-Rom | |
HP Instant Information is a replacement for the HP LaserRom
on-line document delivery system. For more details, refer to the
article, "HP Instant Information for Delivery of Learning Products,"
in this chapter. Chapter 2, System Information/Before You Install | |
"Updating To and Backdating From MPE/iX
6.0" briefly describes the requirements for updating to MPE/iX 6.0
and backdating from MPE/iX 6.0. "Planning Your Move to MPE/iX Release 6.0" describes
the requirements and procedures for updating to MPE/iX Release 6.0,
including the disk space requirements. "Upgrading a Pre-997 Corporate Business Server to
a 997" explains some configuration considerations when upgrading
to a 997 server. "Special Note on SCSI Device Configuration for MPE/iX
6.0" explains some considerations in configuring SCSI devices. "New MPE/iX Obsolescence Strategy" explains Hewlett-Packard's
revised plan for obsoleting operating systems. "HP System Account and Directory Naming Structure"
adds information on reserved directory names and a list of these
names.
Chapter 3, System Management | |
"User Defined Job Queues" explains
that MPE/iX can now have more than one job queue. It also explains
the HIPRI option of ALTJOB. "Overview of HP Patch/iX" gives an overview of the
Patch Management tool, HP Patch/iX. For a technical overview, see
the technical article, "HP Patch/iX Technical Overview," in Chapter
10, "Technical Articles." "Overview of HP Stage/iX" describes HP Stage/iX,
which is an operating system facility for applying and managing
MPE/iX patches on your systems. "Transaction Manager Overview" gives an overview
of System Log Expansion, Checkpoint Improvement, and Copy-Forward. "Increase in Number of TCP Connections" explains
how to configure your system to allow up to 5600 connections. "Overview of CI Enhancements" describes the new
functionality added to the CI software to improve the ease of use
and overall functionality for C.55.03 and 6.0. Refer also to "CI
Enhancements for the Year 2000," in the chapter, "Year 2000 Enhancements,"
and for more detailed information refer to "CI Enhancements in C.55.03"
and "CI Enhancements in 6.0" in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles." "MPE/iX POSIX Installation Changes" explains the
installation changes for MPE/iX POSIX. "DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX" gives an overview of
DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX.
Chapter 4, System Support Tools | |
"Predictive Support" describes the
new peripherals and SPUs supported by Predictive. "On-Line Diagnostics System (Sherlock)" explains
that the Sherlock system will add support for new systems. "GLANCE has a New Name and a New Home!" reports
that HP GlancePlus/XL has been renamed to HP GlancePlus/iX and the
program file has also been renamed. There is a Customer Trial Demonstration
available to provide a one-time-only trial period for the use of
the Glance performance tool.
Chapter 5, Application Development | |
| | | |  | NOTE: Additional technical information on many of these topics
is in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles." | | | | |
"Transact/V and Transact/iX Enhancements"
describes the new enhancements to Transact/V and Transact/iX. "Dictionary/3000" describes the capability of copying
entities with the new COPY
command, and the ability to enter elements multiple times within
an HP Inform group. "Inform/V" describes enhancements to support a new
version of Dictionary/3000. "HP ALLBASE/BRW" explains that this version of ALLBASE/BRW
focuses on a TPI defect repair. "COBOL II/iX Enhancements" describes the COBOL II/iX
enhancements. "Query/iX Enhancements" describes the enhancements
made to QUERY to utilize the new B-tree index features in TurboIMAGE/XL. "IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements" gives
an overview to the highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL and TurboIMAGE/XL
including IMAGE/SQL Dynamic Dataset Expansion for Master Datasets
(MDX) and reviews the previous release including B-Trees. Reviews
a problem with IMAGE/SQL Dynamic Dataset Expansion for Detail Datasets
(DDX). "Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3" describes the
new string functions in Version G3. Reviews these major enhancements
in version G2: new authorities, CAST function, ODBCLink/SE, and
composite key.
Chapter 6, Data/Application Integration | |
"DCE RPC Clients for FOS through MPE/iX"
gives an overview of the DCE RPC Clients modules for FOS.
Chapter 7, Interoperability and Internet Solutions | |
| | | | | NOTE: Additional technical information on many of these topics
is in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles." | | | | |
"Introducing 100VG-AnyLAN Network
Adapter" describes the high-speed network link that provides HP
3000 systems with a connection to a 100VG local area network. "Introducing 100Base-T Network Adapter" describes
the high-speed network link that provides HP 3000 systems with a
connection to a 100Base-T local area network. "Introducing the REMSH Client Functionality" describes
the REMSH Client that allows a user to connect to the remote system,
execute a command on that remote system, and see the results of
that command. "Hewlett-Packard NetWorker ClientPak for MPE/iX"
explains that MPE/iX Express 3 for 5.5 (or later version) or a patch
is required for the Legato NetWorker ClientPak. "Introducing ODBCLink/SE" gives an overview of the
product replacing HP PC/API for ALLBASE/SQL links. "Overview of the DTS/TIO Subsystem" describes the
new features of the Datacommunications and Terminal Subsystem (DTS). "Telnet/iX Server—Full Functionality Release"
describes the Telnet/iX Server enhancement on MPE/iX Release 5.5,
which strengthens the HP 3000 as an open system by providing access
between the HP 3000 and computers that support Telnet, such as UNIX-based
systems and PCs. Describes the functionality added with Release
5.5 PowerPatch (C.55.01). "FTP Enhancements" gives an overview of the new
FTP features. "Samba/iX Overview" gives an overview of Samba/iX. "Introducing Java/iX " gives an overview of Java.
Chapter 8, Peripherals | |
"9 GB Disk Drive" is an announcement
that the 9 Gigabyte (GB) disk drive is available for use with 5.5
(or later) systems; however, it cannot be used for LDEV 1, the boot
disk. "New Disk Devices Supported" describes the new 4
GB and 9 GB disk drives that are now supported. "High Availability Disk Array (Nike)" describes
the support for 9 GB and 18 GB disk drives. "A3716A 144 GB DDS-3 Autoloader for MPE/iX" gives
an overview of the A3716A high-speed, high-capacity tape product
combined with an autoloader. "EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays" overviews the SYM4 version
of the EMC Symmetrix Disk Array supported starting with Express
3 for 5.5.
Chapter 9, Year 2000 Enhancements | |
"Year 2000 Web Page" gives the URL
for the Hewlett-Packard Y2K web page. "Year 2000 Enhancements for MPE/iX" gives an overview
of the Y2K enhancements for MPE/iX. "New Date Intrinsics for MPE/iX" gives an overview
of the new date intrinsics for MPE/iX. "VPLUS Enhancements for Turn-of-Century" describes
enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the Turn-of-century
enhancement. Refer to the technical article in Chapter 10 for other
VPLUS enhancements. "Predictive" announces that Predictive is year 2000
safe. "HP MPE/iX Databases" describes the readiness of
ALLBASE/SQL, IMAGE/SQL, and TurboIMAGE/XL to handle the year 2000. "HP Stage/iX" announces that HP Stage/iX is Y2K
compliant. "Documentation Changes for MPE/iX" provides changes
to existing documents. "RPG/iX 4-Digit Year Enhancements" describes the
support for predefined fields that return a 4-digit year.
Chapter 10, Technical Articles | |
"QUERY/iX Enhancements" describes
the enhancements made to QUERY to utilize the new B-tree index features
in TurboIMAGE/XL. "COBOL II/iX Enhancements" describes the new COBOL
II/iX enhancements. "IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements" explains
the highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL and reviews these features
of the previous release: B-Tree indices, and ODBCLink/SE. Additional
manuals are now bundled with IMAGE/SQL. Describes the new IMAGE/SQL
dynamic dataset expansion for master datasets (MDX). Describes the
highlights of this release of TurboIMAGE/XL, B-Tree indices and
Scalability. Reviews a problem with IMAGE/SQL dynamic dataset expansion
for detail datasets (DDX). "New Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3" describes
the new string functions in version G3 and reviews the major enhancements
in version G2: new authorities for security and year 2000 compatibility.
It gives an overview of the CAST function that was added in the
G1.15 release of ALLBASE/SQL. Describes the process of moving pseudo-mapped
files to mapped files before upgrading ALLBASE/SQL to G3. "Year 2000 and Other Enhancements in VPLUS" describes
enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the following functionality:
turn-of-century enhancement, ability to define default Field Type
and Data Type for a form, ability to define more than 52 single
character fields per Form, new intrinsics to get and set Save Field
values programmatically, and the ability to renumber a Form with
interactive FORMSPEC. "CI Enhancements" describes POSIX filenames, COPY
command enhancements, and new Evaluator functions. It also reviews
the CI Enhancements in C.55.03. It describes the new functionality
added to the CI software to improve the ease of use and overall
functionality of these commands: LISTF,LISTFILE, PAUSE, PRINT, FLABELINFO
and FINFO(),
and INPUT. There
are two new variables: HPLASTSPID
and HPSPOOLID. "The REMSH Client Functionality" gives more technical
information on the REMSH Client that allows a user to connect to
the remote system, execute a command on that remote system, and
see the results of that command. "Transaction Manager" discusses these new features:
System Log Expansion, Transaction Copy-Forward, and Checkpoint Improvement. "New Features of DTS/TIO Subsystem" describes the
new functionality that was added in release 6.0 and reviews the
functionality in release C.55.02. These enhancements significantly
increase the number of DTCs, supported modem types, and parity setting
for HP 3000 machines. "Introducing ODBCLink/SE" describes the product
replacing HP PC/API for ALLBASE/SQL links. "Introducing Samba/iX" provides more technical detail
on Samba/iX. "Developer's Kit for Java/iX" provides
more information on Java for MPE/iX. "Hewlett-Packard NetWorker ClientPak for MPE/iX"
gives more technical information the Hewlett-Packard Legato NetWorker
ClientPak. "DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX" describes the functionality
of DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX. This article includes the available
utilities and descriptions of how to run both.
Chapter 11, Product Release History | |
This chapter adds product information for MPE/iX Release 6.0
and updates the termination dates in the Supported System Release
Matrix table. Chapter 12, Catalog of User Documentation | |
This chapter provides two types of manual listings: A listing of all new or updated manuals
by the time of the MPE/iX 6.0 Release. A current listing of the MPE/iX manuals grouped
by collections.
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