Chapter 5 Technical Articles

Updated HP e3000 A-Class and N-Class Servers

HP Announces Availability of the HP Surestore Disk System 2300 (DS2300) for the HP e3000

HP Announces Availability of the HP Surestore Tape Array 5300 for the HP e3000

HPCPUNAME Model Strings Supported With MPE/iX Release 7.5 and Possible Bootup Failures

Model Strings Cannot be Set by Customers or by Resellers

SCSI Interface and Device Support for N-Class and A-Class HP e3000

N-Class and A-Class Supported Devices Rules of Thumb:

SCSI Devices that will NOT be Supported on N-Class and A-Class HP e3000

HP e3000 PA-8700 A-Class and N-Class Core I/O Card

Introduction

Configuration of Console I/O Paths

New Default Configuration Groups

Secure Web Console

The GSP LAN/Console Port

Additional Helpful Console Information

Conclusion

SHUTDOWN — New CI Command

Enhancements Summary

Enhancement

Operation and Use of New Command

Using AUTOBOOT Feature with :SHUTDOWN;RESTART Option

Introducing Samba/iX Version 2.0.7 on MPE/iX 7.5

Starting smbd and nmbd Listener Jobs

Starting Samba/iX Under the INETD Control

Announcing Heartbeat High Availability Cluster/iX

General Information

Support Tools Manager (STM) Updated for MPE/iX 7.5

New Hardware Support

Improved Functionality

Corrected Defects

Program Changes

Log files and Performance Problems

Predictive Support Changes in MPE/iX 7.5

Product Overview

Support for Using the Entire Disk Space on LDEV 1

Background

Hardware and Software Requirements

Enhancement Details

Freeing Disk Space within 4GB

Compatibility Issues

Before Backdating Your System

UPS Monitor/iX and UPSUTIL Enhancements

Introduction

UPS Monitor Enhancements

UPSUTIL Enhancements

RESETPFAlL Command

For Further Information

AS Clause Enhancement in ALLBASE/SQL

Objectives of the Enhancement

Usage of Column Alias Name

POSIX pthread (Draft 10) APIs

Introduction

Current Limitations

Solution Objectives

IODFAULT Generic Device IDs

More Opened Files in MPE/iX Programs

Introduction

Current Limitation

Need for Expansion

Design Changes

Performance

Compatibility Issues

Limitations of Current Expansion

Conclusion

Support for 2851 userlog Processes

Current Limit

How to Increase the Limit in SYSGEN

TurboIMAGE Scalability II

Data set User Label

DBUTIL Change

Attach Enhancement in Image/SQL

Introduction

Why this Enhancement?

Changes in User Interface

Conclusion

Large File Data Set (LFDS)

Overview

Changes

Conversion

Support for 3000 NS Servers

Background

Solution Objective

How to Increase the Limit

Support for 3300 Jobs and Sessions

Background

Solution Objective

How to Increase the Limit

• Updated HP e3000 A-Class and N-Class Servers

• HP Announces Availability of the HP Surestore Disk System 2300 (DS2300) for the HP e3000

• HP Announces Availability of the HP Surestore Tape Array 5300 for the HP e3000

• HPCPUNAME Model Strings Supported With MPE/iX Release 7.5 and Possible Bootup Failures

• SCSI Interface and Device Support for N-Class and A-Class HP e3000

• HP e3000 PA-8700 A-Class and N-Class Core I/O Card

• SHUTDOWN - New CI Command

• Introducing Samba/iX Version 2.0.7 on MPE/iX 7.5

• Announcing Heartbeat for MPE/iX 7.5

• Support Tools Manager (STM) Updated for MPE/iX 7.5

• Predictive Support Changes in MPE/iX

• Support for the Entire Disk Space on LDEV 1

• UPS Monitor/iX and UPSUTIL Enhancements

• AS Clause Enhancement in ALLBASE/SQL

• POSIX pthread (Draft 10) APIs

• IODFAULT Generic Device IDs

• More Opened Files in MPE/iX Programs

• Support for 2851 userlog Processes

• TurboIMAGE Scalability

• Attach Enhancement in Image/SQL

• Large File Data Set

• Support for 3000 NS Servers

• Support for 3300 Jobs and Sessions