Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 (Non-Platform Software Release C.65.00): HP 3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems

1 Announcements

Introducing MPE/iX 6.5 Release

Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX

Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives

Obsolete Products Removed from Release 6.5

During an FOS Update

Following an Install

Files Associated with Obsoleted Products: Resource Sharing, CCSY Access Server, CCSY Access SQL, Cooperative Services/XL

Important Support Changes in MPE/iX 6.5

Product Overview

Predictive Support Changes for MPE/iX Release 6.5

Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System

HP Electronic Support Center Security-Related Services

Subscribing to HP Electronic Support Center Security Bulletin Services

Instructions

If You Discover a Security Problem

2 Overview—MPE/iX Release 6.5 (C.65.00)

Communicator Summary

Chapter 1 Announcements

Chapter 2, Overview--Communicator Summary

Chapter 3, Growth Solution

Chapter 4, DCM

Chapter 5, Internet, Interoperability and Databases

Chapter 6, Announcing a Post-6.5 Release Patch

Chapter 7, How to Order

Chapter 8, Product Release History

Chapter 9, Catalog of User Documentation

MPE/iX Patches on HP IT Resource Center

Features and Benefits

Access Method to the HP Electronic Support Center

Electronic Digests

Patch Installation Tools

3 Growth Solution

MPE/iX Large Files Overview

Introduction

Summary of Large File Compatibility Issues

FLABELINFO

32-bit Integer Overflow

AIF:OS Impact

OPTIONS Enhancement

Command Interpreter Changes

Intrinsics Changes

New Intrinsics

Miscellaneous

AIFs for Large Files

Enhancement for AIFFILEGGET/AIFFILEGPUT

Enhancement for AIFFILELGET/AIFFILELPUT

Error Messages

AIFs for Multiple Job Queues

Enhancement for AIFSYSWIDEGET

Enhancement for AIFJSGET

Increase in Number of TCP Connections

Introduction

Configuration through NMMGR

Dispatcher Multiple Runqueues

Introduction

Technical Overview

Benefits to Customers

Conclusion

Increased System Limits - An Overview

Support for 511 Disks on MPE/iX

Introduction

Configuring More Than 255 Disks

User Interface Changes

Forward/Backward Compatibility Issues

Increased Number of DSTs

Introduction

Technical Overview

Benefits to Customers

Conclusion

User-Defined Job Queues and ALTJOB HIPRI Enhancements

Enhancements Summary

New Commands

Modified Commands

NEWCI Command (CI Elimination)

Background Information

Operation and Use of New Command

Compatibility Considerations for COBOL and C

Forward Compatibility Not a Problem

Backward Compatibility Not Guaranteed

COBOL/iX

C/iX

C/iX Supports 64-bit Integers

FTP/iX Support for Large Files

Features

User Interface

Installation

4 Data Center Management

Enterprise Management Solution

The Current Need

Recent Offering

Short Term Plans

Long Term Plans

Summary

Support Tools Manager (STM)

Enhanced Message Source Template for HP 3000 Agents in ITO

Introduction

OS Monitoring

Disk Drive Monitor

Volume Set Monitor

Job and Process Monitor

Monitor for other Monitors

Printer Outfence Monitor

Printer Queue Length Monitor

Pending Console Reply Monitor

Message Queue File Monitor

Networking Monitoring

Networking Interface Monitoring

Network Services Monitoring

Database Monitoring

Console Messages

Volume Management

Security

Backup/Tape Volumes

Open View System Manager

HP Secure Web Console

Product Overview

Installation

Product Structure

Product Features

Support from the World Wide Web

TurboSTORE Support for DLT

About the DLT Drives

TurboSTORE Products and the DLT

About Fast Search on Tapes

Fast Search on DLT Tape Drives

Limitation of JXX0

DLT4000/DLT7000 Differential Tape Support on MPE/IX

Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Product Overview

Configuration

Announcing DLT8000 Differential Tape Support on MPE/iX

Software Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Product Overview

Configuration

TERMDSM: User Interface Change under System Diagnostics

What It Means to the User

What the User Will See

Other Commands of Interest

HP SureStore E Disk Array 12H on the HP 3000

Site, Software and Hardware Requirements

AutoRAID Configuration Requirements

Host Hardware/Firmware Requirements

Host Software Requirements

Host Diagnostic Support

Off-line Diagnostics

Configuring the 12H for Performance on the HP 3000

DVD Supported on the HP 3000

Product Numbers

DLT7000 and Legato Storage Node Usage

HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256

Announcing Support of the HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256

SureStore E Disk Array XP256 Business Copy XP and/or Continuous Access XP in an HP 3000 Environment

Product Descriptions

Environment

Basic Operation

System A Procedures

System B Procedures

Business Copy Procedures

5 Internet and Interoperability

Large Transactions for IMAGE Users

Background

Current Limitations

XM User Checkpoint Priority Control

Background

Solution Objective

Overview of the Solution

Transact/iX Expanded B-Tree and File Open Enhancement

Support of B-Trees in Transact

File Open Transact

Apache for MPE/iX 6.5

Overview

Feature Set

Technical Overview

Major Components

Introducing LDAP C-SDK/iX

MPE/IX Software Developer's Kit (SDK) for Java, Version 1.2.2

HP Driver for JDBC

HP JDBC Components

Requirements

Installation

Using the HP Driver for JDBC

ALLBASE/SQL Specifics

Troubleshooting

6 Announcing a Post 6.5 Release Patch

IMAGE/SQL Date Mapping Enhancement

SP(LIT)

U[PDATE] TYPE

Format(TI)Type StorageType #Bytes Explanation

Notes

Examples

7 Product List—How to Order

8 Product Release History

Product Changes by Releases

Supported Releases

9 Catalog of User Documentation

MPE/iX 6.5 New or Updated Manuals

Manual Collections

Index

4-1 Basic Setup of Business Copy

4-2 Using Both Business Copy and Continuous Access

5-1 JDBC Client-Server Application

5-1 Data Type Mapping

5-2 Data Type Conversions

5-3 Unsupported Statements

8-1 MPE/iX Product Releases

8-2 Supported System Release Matrix

9-1 MPE/iX 6.5 New or Updated Manuals

9-2 Manual Collections