"Sorry for the bandwith" ? it is probably the best summup I've seen. It's great to be presented with this list without having to go searching for it. I've been wanting to gather all these since we upgraded from 4 to 5.5, and that was a few months ago !! :) which reminds me of how time flies, especially when you're short of it :))
Costas Anastassiades,
Intracom SA
Athens-Greece
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From: Andreas Schmidt[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Παρασκευή, 6 Μαρτίου 1998 7:23 μμ
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Summary of MPE/iX 5.5(4)
Here a short (?) list of all enhancements in 5.5(4). We updated our test
box from 5.0 to 5.5(4), and I had to communicate this to our folks ...
probably somebody else is interested in ... if not: sorry for the
bandwidth!
I checked all three communicators and the 2nd section of the small booklet
which comes together with the express 4 tape ...
CI related (=your normal interface to the O/S):
* PAUSE can wait for jobs to be complete and more !!!
PAUSE sec;JOB=... or INTERVAL= or ;EXIST|WAIT|NOTEXIST ...
* INPUT allows to specify the # of characters to be read ;READCNT
* PRINT ;NONUM prints numbered files (sic!)
* new CI variables (some are already in place because of patches)
HPLOCIPADDR, HPREMIPADDR, HPLOCPORT, HPREMPORT,
HPSTREAMEDBY, HPLASTJOB,
HPOSVERSION, HPRELVERSION,
HPLASTSPID, HPSPOOLID,
HPYYYY (!), HPSPLITYEAR
* LISTF,8 and LISTFILE,8 show file accessors (incl. remote access)
* LISTF,9 and LISTFILE,9 show locks
* LISTFILE works now with ;SELEQ
these three functions are not described in HELP !!!
* enhanced REDO and HELP
* Y2K internal changes for some commands to specify a four-digit year, e.g.
STREAM;DATE
* ALTSEC enhancements for ACDs
seldom used
* more POSIX tools like MOVER, tar, lp, lpstat, lpalt, cancel
* internet services inetd, telnet, bootpd, tftpd, remsh
what the hell is Unix ???
System Manager Tasks (but interfere to Applications as well):
* JOBSECURITY Feature:PASSEXEMPT
STREAM jobs without passwords. Using MSTREAM or STREAMX, we have already
this in place but now it will work also for the MPE native STREAM command
(configured in the right way). We do not plan to make use of it - only if
there is a need. Basically: there is no longer ANY need to have passwords
in the jobcards!
* TurboStore/iX 7*24 True-Online Backup
Currently there are some problems in this feature regarding these new
keywords. We will continue to run the "semi-true" online backup (=5.0).
* TurboStore/iX allows now to store on disk!
* FSCHECK enhancements
* SubSystem Dumps and quarantine routines during System Aborts
we will not test this ;-)
* Patch /iX and Stage/iX for patching and configuration switching
* predictive support enhancements
* Console switching over LAN
we all know
* LAN printing,
* DTS/TIO Dynamic configuration and host-based switching
* on-line device configuration (without re-boot)
* DEVCTRL to put tape drives on-line again
beside the old functions for compression and eject
Programmer's Suite:
* File-Label LAST MODIFIED changed
Only if a file is changed, the last modified date will be changed.
* FLABELINFO and FINFO() can return # of sectors and extents
* Y2K CALENDAR compliant intrinsic adapted, new date-related intrinsics
available
* Several AIF enhancements
* exec anhancements,
* POSIX developer's kit is bundled in
* dependent libraries on MPE/iX loader, incl. enhancements of HP Link
Editor/iX
* RPG/iX enhancements
* VPLUS enhancements especially for Y2K: new intrinsics & enhancements
* HP Symbolic Debugger/iX enhancements
* enhancements in BASIC, C. PASCAL, COBOL
* correction of Inform/V and Transact defects (really an enhancement ?!?!)
and real enhancements
* DCE (Distributed Computer Environment) for Remote Procedure Calls etc.
The Database Section:
* HP Information Access Server SQL/iX supports now MS Winsock
* HP Information Access Server MPE/iX enhancements
* ALLBASE/4GL Developer enhancements
LABEL, -Verbose, and more
* ALLBASE/SQL enhancements
ODBC PC API, ANSI standard, STOREONLINE, 50 transactions instead of 2, new
tools, and lot of more
CAST function
but pseudo-mapped files are no longer supported!
Security enhancements, Year 2000 compatibility,
* IMAGE/SQL and TurboIMAGE/XL enhancements
indexed access, and lots of more, new datetime routines, b-trees,
scalability, 3rd party support, ...
Jumbos, error messages are more verbose, especially for broken chains,
B-trees, scalability, ...
* QUERY enhancements
like B-trees, wildcard retrievals, "no match"
* 32-bit ODBC driver
New H/W and N/W support:
* new CD-ROM H/W (also Optical Libraries)
* supports up to 3.75 GB memory
* 100VG-AnyLAN and 100Base-T supported
* more mass storage et al. H/W supported (as always), especially DDS-3
Autoloader !
* Legato NetWorker Client available
Best regards,
Andreas Schmidt
CSC Chemical, Oil & Gas Group
Computing Technical Services - Europe
61352 Bad Homburg, DuPont-Strasse 1, Room 1-346
Germany
Phone: +49(0) 6172 / 87-2117 Fax -2195 DUCOM x951-2117
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