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Chapter 1 Introduction XL Release 2.1 (A.40.00) Overview by Myrna Allen Commercial Systems Division The Commercial Systems XL Release 2.1 (A.40.00) introduces many new products and contains performance enhancements to existing products. This commercial release of MPE XL further extends the functionality of the MPE XL operating system. SYSTEM PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION Hewlett-Packard introduces two new high-availability products, Mirrored Disk/XL and AutoRestart/XL. Mirrored Disk/XL allows you to maintain two copies of all data residing on a non-system volume set and provides online disk backup, user transparency, and protection against disk failures. AutoRestart/XL is now available on MPE XL. During a system failure, this new product automatically collects failure information and reboots. AutoRestart/XL ensures that a dump will be taken by preallocating the disk file that receives the failure state information. The BULDACCT utility, introduced with this release, is designed to help you move your directory accounting structures across volume sets or systems. This utility can be used successfully with Mirrored Disk/XL to migrate accounts from the system volume set to a user volume set. With this release, a Native Mode (NM) spooler replaces the Compatibility Mode (CM) spooler. Spoolfiles now become recoverable disk files which are handled by the NM file system. In addition, three new commands (LISTSPF, SPOOLER, SPOOLF) and two new utilities (SPFXFER and PRINTSFP) are being introduced to increase the functionality of this new product. The new HP 700/92A Asian Data Entry Terminal is available in four language versions. The HP 700/92A supports a wide variety of character input methods. In addition, this terminal combines the built-in hardware fonts and the HP User-definable Fonts, provides both block and format modes, contains bilingual error messages and function keys, and has a localized keyboard with color-coded Asian legends. MPE XL now supports the Native Language I/O subsystem (NLIO). NLIO provides a transparent conversion between internal code in a host system and external code in peripherals. A new utility, NLIOUTIL, which allows you to activate native devices dynamically, is also included in this release. Native Mode Device Files (NMDF) provides you with a new method for getting information onto devices. The Architected Interfaced Facility is a new group of services which allows easy and high performance access, manipulation, or interception of Hewlett-Packard proprietary operating information or processes. New features include: task oriented interface, direct access to internal functions and data, and shared data space. MPE XL Command Interpreter (CI) has added Command I/O Redirection (CIOR). CIOR enables CI to: write the output of a command to a file, redirect the input of a command to a file, and append the output of a command to a file. With this release, the FCOPY subsystem has been changed to support the Native Mode KSAM (NM KSAM) files. Native Mode Keyed Sequential Access Method (KSAM) is now supported on MPE XL. KSAM XL features include: immediate data access, file level locking, data space reuse option, user interface, and data logging. System managers now have increased flexibility through scheduling enhancements added to this release. With these new features, the boost property and process queue changing, you now have access to new commands which display process information and change process information. This new release of the Switch Assist Tool (SWAT) has been enhanced to include: SWAT script command functionality, the ability to overwrite existing files, and new function keys. DATA COMMUNICATIONS The new HP X.400/3000 provides X.400 message handling for HPDesk. Features of the HP X.400/3000 include: transmission of both text messages and binary files using X.400, supportability of up to 200 X.400/HPDesk systems, connectivity between HPDesk and other vendor X.400 electronic mail systems, conformance to 1984 CCITT recommendations, and increased performance over competitive products. The new NS/SNA Link/XL product allows HP 3000s to communicate with each other over an SNA network. NS/SNA Link/XL supports connectivity of standalone HP 3000 900 Series over an SNA network or an HP 3000 on a LAN which is connected through an SNA gateway node. SNA/X.25 Link/XL, used in conjunction with X.25/XL System Access and DTC X.25 Link Access products, allows SNA Service Products to communicate with an SNA host over an X.25 network. With this release, the name of the SNA Link/XL product has been changed to SNA/SDLC Link/XL, and two new features have been added: Netview Alerts support, which sends alert messages to the IBM network facility, and Type 2.1 Node capability. SNA IMF/XL now processes IBM Double-Byte coded Character Set (DBCS) data and supports the protocol to recognize the 16-bit Asian characters. With this release of DTC/Terminal Access, all data communication product configurations are done through the configuration utility, NMMGR. In addition you can now customize your terminal/printer type files using the TTUTIL utility. Network Transport has been enhanced to support IP subnetting. With IP subnetting, networks can be configured to support IP subnet addressing. This new feature allows two or more physically distinct networks to share the same network number. New features, including application level security, API Header Item, and NS/3000 independence, are now available with NetDelivery/XL. LANGUAGES Significant changes have been made to the new version of HP Business BASIC/XL. Enhancements include: a change to the default for GLOBAL OPTION SUBPROGRAM, addition of the "B" format specifier for the IMAGE statement, generation of a cross reference for a program that contains VERIFY errors, and printing of forms in a forms file with '@' option. RPG/XL now supports the calling of intrinsics from RPG/XL programs through two new Calculation Spec operators, INTR and IPARM. HP Symbolic Debugger/XL is enhanced with the following new features: HP COBOLII/XL support, the addition of datatrace, and the addition of a command history stack. Enhancements have been added to HP C/XL which bring it into conformance with the pending ANSI standard for the C language, X3.159. DATABASE TOOLS This new release of HP ALLBASE/QUERY introduces two new modules, EZCreate, which allows you to create or modify a table, and EXUpdate, which allows you to modify data in the tables. ALLBASE/SQL now includes two new features: Data Hashing, another method of data retrieval, and an Unlimited Data Buffer Pool, in which the number of Data Buffers can be expanded. ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE PRODUCTS Hewlett-Packard introduces NewWave Office, a collection of server and client services. NewWave Information services provide Information Access Service and Information Distribution Service. NewWave System Services provide Networked PC Management Services and Shared Resources Service. The Information Access services of HP NewWave Office allow you to move data from selected HP 3000s and HP 9000s to PC applications. With this cooperative computing environment, you spend less time gathering data and more time analyzing and solving business problems. This new release of Information Access includes enhancements to Information Access Server and Information Access PC. This release introduces HP DeskMon, a new product which monitors the activity of HP DeskManager. HP DeskMon can be configured to monitor jobs, processes, queues, datasets, inter-process communication, and user-written applications, as well as to report errors and exceptions. HP Search/XL, a new product with this release, provides you with high-performance search capabilities. HP Search/XL features include: fast, read-only access to files, wild card specifications in file sets, multiple search patterns, KSAM and KSAMXL supportability, and output redirection. HP Browse/XL, another new product being introduced with this release, can create a full-screen display of one or two files at a time. HP Browse/XL contains the following features: quick, read-only access to most non-privileged files, access to KSAM and KSAMXL files, scrolling, user-friendly interface, short learning curve for HP Edit users, and an online Help Facility. HP ALLBASE/BRW, a successor to HP BRW/XL provides access to SQL. In addition, several major enhancements are included in the product: use items screen, global function screen, and the display of editmasks on define lines and review layout screen. This new version of ALLBASE/4GL includes the HP TurboIMAGE interface. With this interface, you have read and write access to databases created under HP TurboIMAGE. In addition, enhancements have been added which give you increased performance, pull-down menus, and extra functionality. The release of this version of HP Convert/DCA includes the HP Convert/FFT Conversion product which provides conversions between Final Form Text and text. HP Software Revision Controller (HP SRC/XL), an automated software version control system, has been enhanced to provide greater flexibility in using HP SRC commands and to further reduce disk space usage. This version also provides support for Native Mode KSAM (KSAMXL) files, audit trails with session/job names, and groups. TRANSACT/XL has been enhanced to include multi-dimensional arrays, access to more MPE intrinsics with the PROC statement, cursor positioning within VPLUS forms, and a new symbolic debugging facility. This new version of HP EDIT/XL introduces support for editing text files that contain 16-bit Asian characters. HP EDIT/XL now supports the following languages: simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. Changes have been incorporated into DBchange/CM which include add set/add item, review security/change security, and delete password. HP TOOLSET/XL now supports HP Pascal/XL imported modules and HP FORTRAN 77/XL record structures. With this release, HP GLANCE/XL now provides response time information in its Global, Job/Session, and Process screens. GLANCERESP JCW allows you to highlight the response time field, if it exceeds your user-defined value. These two new features will provide added value to your diagnostic needs.