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Chapter 2, System Information/Before You Install

• "Updating To and Backdating From MPE/iX 6.0" briefly describes the requirements for updating to MPE/iX 6.0 and backdating from MPE/iX 6.0.
• "Planning Your Move to MPE/iX Release 6.0" describes the requirements and procedures for updating to MPE/iX Release 6.0, including the disk space requirements.
• "Upgrading a Pre-997 Corporate Business Server to a 997" explains some configuration considerations when upgrading to a 997 server.
• "Special Note on SCSI Device Configuration for MPE/iX 6.0" explains some considerations in configuring SCSI devices.
• "New MPE/iX Obsolescence Strategy" explains Hewlett-Packard's revised plan for obsoleting operating systems.
• "HP System Account and Directory Naming Structure" adds information on reserved directory names and a list of these names.

Chapter 3, System Management

• "User Defined Job Queues" explains that MPE/iX can now have more than one job queue. It also explains the HIPRI option of ALTJOB.
• "Overview of HP Patch/iX" gives an overview of the Patch Management tool, HP Patch/iX. For a technical overview, see the technical article, "HP Patch/iX Technical Overview," in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."
• "Overview of HP Stage/iX" describes HP Stage/iX, which is an operating system facility for applying and managing MPE/iX patches on your systems.
• "Transaction Manager Overview" gives an overview of System Log Expansion, Checkpoint Improvement, and Copy-Forward.
• "Increase in Number of TCP Connections" explains how to configure your system to allow up to 5600 connections.
• "Overview of CI Enhancements" describes the new functionality added to the CI software to improve the ease of use and overall functionality for C.55.03 and 6.0. Refer also to "CI Enhancements for the Year 2000," in the chapter, "Year 2000 Enhancements," and for more detailed information refer to "CI Enhancements in C.55.03" and "CI Enhancements in 6.0" in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."
• "MPE/iX POSIX Installation Changes" explains the installation changes for MPE/iX POSIX.
• "DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX" gives an overview of DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX.

Chapter 4, System Support Tools

• "Predictive Support" describes the new peripherals and SPUs supported by Predictive.
• "On-Line Diagnostics System (Sherlock)" explains that the Sherlock system will add support for new systems.
• "GLANCE has a New Name and a New Home!" reports that HP GlancePlus/XL has been renamed to HP GlancePlus/iX and the program file has also been renamed. There is a Customer Trial Demonstration available to provide a one-time-only trial period for the use of the Glance performance tool.

Chapter 5, Application Development

NOTE: Additional technical information on many of these topics is in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."

• "Transact/V and Transact/iX Enhancements" describes the new enhancements to Transact/V and Transact/iX.
• "Dictionary/3000" describes the capability of copying entities with the new COPY command, and the ability to enter elements multiple times within an HP Inform group.
• "Inform/V" describes enhancements to support a new version of Dictionary/3000.
• "HP ALLBASE/BRW" explains that this version of ALLBASE/BRW focuses on a TPI defect repair.
• "COBOL II/iX Enhancements" describes the COBOL II/iX enhancements.
• "Query/iX Enhancements" describes the enhancements made to QUERY to utilize the new B-tree index features in TurboIMAGE/XL.
• "IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements" gives an overview to the highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL and TurboIMAGE/XL including IMAGE/SQL Dynamic Dataset Expansion for Master Datasets (MDX) and reviews the previous release including B-Trees. Reviews a problem with IMAGE/SQL Dynamic Dataset Expansion for Detail Datasets (DDX).
• "Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3" describes the new string functions in Version G3. Reviews these major enhancements in version G2: new authorities, CAST function, ODBCLink/SE, and composite key.

Chapter 6, Data/Application Integration

• "DCE RPC Clients for FOS through MPE/iX" gives an overview of the DCE RPC Clients modules for FOS.

Chapter 7, Interoperability and Internet Solutions

NOTE: Additional technical information on many of these topics is in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."

• "Introducing 100VG-AnyLAN Network Adapter" describes the high-speed network link that provides HP 3000 systems with a connection to a 100VG local area network.
• "Introducing 100Base-T Network Adapter" describes the high-speed network link that provides HP 3000 systems with a connection to a 100Base-T local area network.
• "Introducing the REMSH Client Functionality" describes the REMSH Client that allows a user to connect to the remote system, execute a command on that remote system, and see the results of that command.
• "Hewlett-Packard NetWorker ClientPak for MPE/iX" explains that MPE/iX Express 3 for 5.5 (or later version) or a patch is required for the Legato NetWorker ClientPak.
• "Introducing ODBCLink/SE" gives an overview of the product replacing HP PC/API for ALLBASE/SQL links.
• "Overview of the DTS/TIO Subsystem" describes the new features of the Datacommunications and Terminal Subsystem (DTS).
• "Telnet/iX Server — Full Functionality Release" describes the Telnet/iX Server enhancement on MPE/iX Release 5.5, which strengthens the HP 3000 as an open system by providing access between the HP 3000 and computers that support Telnet, such as UNIX-based systems and PCs. Describes the functionality added with Release 5.5 PowerPatch (C.55.01).
• "FTP Enhancements" gives an overview of the new FTP features.
• "Samba/iX Overview" gives an overview of Samba/iX.
• "Introducing Java/iX " gives an overview of Java.

Chapter 8, Peripherals

• "9 GB Disk Drive" is an announcement that the 9 Gigabyte (GB) disk drive is available for use with 5.5 (or later) systems; however, it cannot be used for LDEV 1, the boot disk.
• "New Disk Devices Supported" describes the new 4 GB and 9 GB disk drives that are now supported.
• "High Availability Disk Array (Nike)" describes the support for 9 GB and 18 GB disk drives.
• "A3716A 144 GB DDS-3 Autoloader for MPE/iX" gives an overview of the A3716A high-speed, high-capacity tape product combined with an autoloader.
• "EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays" overviews the SYM4 version of the EMC Symmetrix Disk Array supported starting with Express 3 for 5.5.

Chapter 9, Year 2000 Enhancements

NOTE: This is a new chapter to feature the enhancements to products to handle the year 2000 issues. Additional technical information is in Chapter 10, "Technical Articles."

• "Year 2000 Web Page" gives the URL for the Hewlett-Packard Y2K web page.
• "Year 2000 Enhancements for MPE/iX" gives an overview of the Y2K enhancements for MPE/iX.
• "New Date Intrinsics for MPE/iX" gives an overview of the new date intrinsics for MPE/iX.
• "VPLUS Enhancements for Turn-of-Century" describes enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the Turn-of-century enhancement. Refer to the technical article in Chapter 10 for other VPLUS enhancements.
• "Predictive" announces that Predictive is year 2000 safe.
• "HP MPE/iX Databases" describes the readiness of ALLBASE/SQL, IMAGE/SQL, and TurboIMAGE/XL to handle the year 2000.
• "HP Stage/iX" announces that HP Stage/iX is Y2K compliant.
• "Documentation Changes for MPE/iX" provides changes to existing documents.
• "RPG/iX 4-Digit Year Enhancements" describes the support for predefined fields that return a 4-digit year.

Chapter 10, Technical Articles

• "QUERY/iX Enhancements" describes the enhancements made to QUERY to utilize the new B-tree index features in TurboIMAGE/XL.
• "COBOL II/iX Enhancements" describes the new COBOL II/iX enhancements.
• "IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements" explains the highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL and reviews these features of the previous release: B-Tree indices, and ODBCLink/SE. Additional manuals are now bundled with IMAGE/SQL. Describes the new IMAGE/SQL dynamic dataset expansion for master datasets (MDX). Describes the highlights of this release of TurboIMAGE/XL, B-Tree indices and Scalability. Reviews a problem with IMAGE/SQL dynamic dataset expansion for detail datasets (DDX).
• "New Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3" describes the new string functions in version G3 and reviews the major enhancements in version G2: new authorities for security and year 2000 compatibility. It gives an overview of the CAST function that was added in the G1.15 release of ALLBASE/SQL. Describes the process of moving pseudo-mapped files to mapped files before upgrading ALLBASE/SQL to G3.
• "Year 2000 and Other Enhancements in VPLUS" describes enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the following functionality: turn-of-century enhancement, ability to define default Field Type and Data Type for a form, ability to define more than 52 single character fields per Form, new intrinsics to get and set Save Field values programmatically, and the ability to renumber a Form with interactive FORMSPEC.
• "CI Enhancements" describes POSIX filenames, COPY command enhancements, and new Evaluator functions. It also reviews the CI Enhancements in C.55.03. It describes the new functionality added to the CI software to improve the ease of use and overall functionality of these commands: LISTF,LISTFILE, PAUSE, PRINT, FLABELINFO and FINFO(), and INPUT. There are two new variables: HPLASTSPID and HPSPOOLID.
• "The REMSH Client Functionality" gives more technical information on the REMSH Client that allows a user to connect to the remote system, execute a command on that remote system, and see the results of that command.
• "Transaction Manager" discusses these new features: System Log Expansion, Transaction Copy-Forward, and Checkpoint Improvement.
• "New Features of DTS/TIO Subsystem" describes the new functionality that was added in release 6.0 and reviews the functionality in release C.55.02. These enhancements significantly increase the number of DTCs, supported modem types, and parity setting for HP 3000 machines.
• "Introducing ODBCLink/SE" describes the product replacing HP PC/API for ALLBASE/SQL links.
• "Introducing Samba/iX" provides more technical detail on Samba/iX.
• "Developer's Kit for Java/iX" provides more information on Java for MPE/iX.
• "Hewlett-Packard NetWorker ClientPak for MPE/iX" gives more technical information the Hewlett-Packard Legato NetWorker ClientPak.
• "DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX" describes the functionality of DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX. This article includes the available utilities and descriptions of how to run both.

Chapter 11, Product Release History

Chapter 12, Catalog of User Documentation

• A listing of all new or updated manuals by the time of the MPE/iX 6.0 Release.
• A current listing of the MPE/iX manuals grouped by collections.