MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1

MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1 features include the following:

• 35% processing speed and performance increase. Our high-end customers running MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1 can expect higher processing performance from their systems. (Relative HP performance units, based on N4000-400-550 vs. 997/1200)

• 140% processing speed and performance increase. Our mid-range customers running MPE/iX 7.0 Release Express 1 can expect higher processing performance from their systems. (Relative HP performance units, based on N4000-100-220 vs.929KS/030)

• 65% processing speed and performance increase. Our entry-level customers running MPE/iX 7.0 Release Express 1 can expect higher processing performance from their systems. (Relative HP performance units, based on N4000-100-110 vs. 917/927/937/947)

• Solid Java offering - With the new MPE/iX Software Developers Kit for Java 2 Platform, version 1.3, the implementation of Java on the HP e3000 just got much faster. Thanks to the new technology included in the HotSpot Virtual Machine, the Java offering on the HP e3000 provides for a major boost (2x to 5x the performance of the classic VM with JIT) in Java performance!

• Popular, open-source Apache Web Server - Version 1.3.14, with the Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) module for easy customization and overall enhanced functionality, helps to evolve the HP e3000 as a viable web server

• Open source Samba. - Version 2.0.7 provides for enhanced interoperability with NT environments

• ODBC and JDBC continue to be the prime database connectivity. Updated ODBC access is provided via MB Foster Associates. ODBC/Link SE is bundled at no additional cost with IMAGE/SQL and ALLBASE/SQL.

• HotSpot Virtual Machine- The HotSpot VM is a completely compatible alternative to the Classic Java Virtual Machine. The latest Software Developers Kit (SDK) for Java, which is included with this release, contains both the HotSpot and the Classic JVMs. The primary advantage of the HotSpot VM is performance. Benchmarks show typical performance improvements of from 2 to 5 times when using the HotSpot VM compared to the Classic virtual machine shipped in all versions of Java to date.

• 100 Base-T on Core I/O card- PCI 100-BaseT LAN support is available on core I/O module for MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1. This will eliminate the need for integrating LAN card A5230AY as well as making an additional I/O slot available.

• BIGPIN Support- Now enabled on MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1, and running only on the N-Class servers, is support for additional concurrent processes. Previous releases of MPE/iX supported up to 8190 concurrent processes, and now with MPE/iX 7.0 Express 1, that limit is now up to 12,000. This improvement provides MPE/iX high-end customers the ability to support additional users and process intensive applications.

• HP Predictive Support software- Predictive provides proactive hardware support and helps increase the uptime of your systems by monitoring system memory and disk/tape drives. When Predictive detects a potential problem, it sends a message to the HP Response Center. The Response Center portion of the system screens the data and forwards problems requiring further analysis to a Response Center Engineer. If action is needed at your site, the Response Center Engineer and a Customer Engineer will work with you to resolve the problem. This proactive hardware support is provided as part of your HP Hardware and Software Support Services Agreement.

• 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/iX 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 coexist 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.