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Introducing Express 2 Based on MPE/iX 6.5 Release

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Customers looking for a solution that supports high system availability, reduced downtime, improved redundancy and increased dataset support for applications such as TurboIMAGE/iX, should order Express 2 release of MPE/IX 6.5. MPE/iX Release 6.5 Express 2 is expected to be available in late November 2000. It is a collection of improvements in "High Availability" features and database support. The MPE/iX 6.5 base release contains numerous performance and capacity enhancements that will allow for more growth in high-end enterprise environments and bundled tools for web deployment of the HP e3000.

MPE/iX Release 6.5 Express 2 features include the following

Performance and Capacity Improvements:

  • Reduced planned or unplanned downtime - High Availability Cluster/iX provides increased uptime by moving the mission critical data from the unavailable system to a secondary system that is up and running.

  • Protection against loss of server accesses to data.

  • Support for N-way systems - High Availability Cluster/iX is not limited to 2-way topologies. It can manage N-way systems.

  • Improved switch over from failed I/O path to active I/O path - High Availability FailOver/iX (HAFO) continually monitors SCSI reply messages for failed data path components and allows MPE to switch to another active I/O path connected to the same array.

  • TurboIMAGE/iX Support for databases with dataset size greater than 80GB - This enhancement in TurboIMAGE/iX removes the current 80 GB limit on the size of a dataset so as to allow users to have really large datasets. Old and new format databases can co-exist in the same system.

  • Increased TurboIMAGE Limits - Number of items limit raised to 1200, number of sets per database increased to 240, and number of paths for master supported up to 64. The new limits will not be applicable for old databases created under previous versions of TurboIMAGE/iX. However, these databases will continue to function with the old limits and applications will be compatible.

  • Improved and user-friendly ALLBASE ANSI AS Clause - This enhancement builds support for AS clause in SELECT statements to help the user to give a more meaningful name to the column headings.

End of Support Dates for MPE/iX Release 5.5 and 6.0:

Support for the 5.5 release will end on December 31, 2000. Customers should plan to update to either MPE/iX 6.0 or MPE/iX 6.5 prior to this date. We would encourage most customers to update to the 6.5 release since that release contains many performance and capacity enhancements for high-end systems and bundled tools for using the HP e3000 with the Internet. Additionally, the 6.5 release will be supported longer than 6.0.Support for the 6.0 release has been extended until April 30, 2002. Please be aware that support for the 9x7 servers (917-987) will also end at this same time. In the future, Hewlett-Packard will continue to provide 18 months notice before terminating support of a given release as we have done for 5.5 and 6.0.

Welcome to Express 2 based on MPE/iX 6.5 release. This Express Communicator should be seen as a supplement to the MPE/iX 6.5 Communicator.

NOTE: Correction: in the 6.5 Communicator there's a reference to an AIF enhancement for JOBQ functionality. This functionality has not yet been implemented.

Pages 40 and 55 of the Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 states that AIFFILEGPUT new item 5101, was added in release 6.5 to allow setting of EOF with largefiles. This is a documentation error. This new item 5101 should not be valid for the PUT function. The reason is that the existing item 5017, the 32-bit equivalent, does not allow modification of the EOF in the file label, and therefore the 64-bit item 5101 would also be invalid.



Chapter 1 Announcements

Obsolete Products Removed from Release 6.5