Chapter 10 Technical Articles

Table of Contents

QUERY/iX Enhancements

Overview

B-Tree Enhancement

Dynamic Dataset Capacities

Wildcard Retrievals

Wildcard Character Limitations

B-Tree Limitations

"NO MATCH" Enhancement

COBOL II/iX Enhancements

Overview

Secondary Entry Points

CALL by plabel

New Routines for Boolean Operations

Compiling Larger Programs

DISPLAY Index-name

New Qedit Diagnostic

IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements

Overview

Manuals Bundled with IMAGE/SQL

Updating IMAGE/SQL

TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements

Dynamic Data Set Expansion for Masters

80 GB Data Sets

Performance Enhancement for Databases with Third-party Indices (TPI)

DBSCHEMA and P Type with Odd Sub-Item Length

B-Tree Indices

Scalability

Dynamic Detail Dataset Expansion (DDX) Fix

Important Information

IMAGE/SQL Enhancements

Predicate Locks when Updating Manual Masters

Support for B-Tree Indices

Third-Party Composite Indices

Important Information

ODBCLink/SE

New Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3

Overview

Instant Information CD-ROM

String Functions

Function Specification

Examples:

Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G2

Security

Year 2000 Compatibility

CAST Function

Pseudo-Mapped Files Removed from ALLBASE/SQL

Year 2000 and Other Enhancements in VPLUS

Introduction

Turn-of-Century Enhancement

Programmable Defaults for Field and Data Types in FORMSPEC

Ability to Define More than 52 Single Character Fields per Form

Compatibility issues

New Intrinsics to Get and Set Save Field Values

Renumbering a Form with Interactive FORMSPEC

CI Enhancements

Introduction

POSIX Filenames

Enhancements to the COPY Command

Enhancements to the SHOWVAR Command

New Evaluator Functions

Summary of CI Enhancements in C.55.03

LISTF/LISTFILE Enhancements

Selection Equations for LISTFILE

New Variables

FLABELINFO and FINFO Enhancements

PAUSE Enhancement

INPUT Enhancement

PRINT Enhancement

The REMSH Client Functionality

An Overview of the REMSH Service

Verifying Installation

Configuring the REMSH Client

Using REMSH

Troubleshooting REMSH

Implementation Differences

Transaction Manager

Overview

System Log Expansion

Transaction Copy-forward

Checkpoint Improvement

New Features for DTS/TIO Subsystem

Introduction

New Features

Support of 400 DTCs

Support of 2000 device classes

Three New Modem Types for Attached

Data Length/Parity List Support

Introducing ODBCLink/SE

Overview

ODBC Level 2 Compliance

Client/Server Interface

Migration from HP PC API

Performance Considerations

Supported Functions and Commands

Supported Data Types

Stored Procedures

Features Specific to ODBCLink/SE

ALLBASE/SQL Restrictions

ANSI Character Set

Unsupported ALLBASE/SQL and IMAGE/SQL Statements

Utilities

ODBCLink

Documentation

Introducing Samba/iX

Overview

Major Components

File and Printer Sharing Using Samba/iX

Starting Samba/iX

Disable Resource Sharing

Stopping Samba/iX

Logging Method

Samba/iX Version

Developer's Kit for Java/iX

Background

Shell or CI?

Java Directory Structure

Using Java

Where to Go for More Information

Hewlett-Packard NetWorker Client for MPE/iX

Overview

Benefits

Features

Required Hardware and Software

HP Response Center Support

Documentation

FTP Enhancements

Implementation of FTPSRVR under INETD

Anonymous FTP Functionality

Support for Non-Standard MPE/iX File Types

The Configurable Server Time-Out

Hash Command

REPLACE Option

MOVE Option

The Implementation of CI Environment Variables for Additional FTP/iX Status Information

DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX

Overview of DNS BIND/iX

Overview of Syslog/iX

Types of Names Servers

Major Files Used for DNS BIND/iX

Configure Masters

Configuration Migration

How to Run Syslog/iX

How to Run DNS BIND/iX

Sample Configuration File for SysDiag/iX

Test Your Name Server

Debugging Levels for Troubleshooting

Documentation

More DNS BIND/iX Resources

• QUERY/iX Enhancements

• COBOL II/iX Enhancements

• IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements

• New Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3

• Year 2000 and Other Enhancements in VPLUS

• CI Enhancements

• The REMSH Client Functionality

• Transaction Manager

• New Features for DTS/TIO Subsystem

• Introducing ODBCLink/SE

• Introducing Samba/iX

• Developer's Kit for Java/iX

• Hewlett-Packard NetWorker Client Pak for MPE/iX

• FTP Enhancements

• DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX