Wendell asked:

> Two more questions:
>
> 1.  What is the difference between Store-to-Disk and Mover as
> mentioned in 1 above?

STD is simply an option available with MPE/iX STORE/RESTORE that allows you
to STORE to and RESTORE from a simple MPE disk file (actually that's not
quite right because you have to buy 24X7 Online Backup to be able to STORE
to a disk file, but any old version of STORE can read from it). We are
anxious to use STD over MOVER because 1) it's been shown to work 100% of the
time on our patches, and 2) if for some reason it doesn't work, I'm much
more confident that we can get a fix for it in a reasonable turnaround time
(and it won't involve telling customers to use STORE635 instead of STORE531
or whatever).


> 2.  I am considering moving to 6.0 instead of patching 5.5.
> Is the first powerpatch for 6.0 available yet and how quickly would I be
> able to get it?

I'm not sure if I can answer "how quickly you can get it" (I assume the
amount of time it takes for your support person to send a tape to you), but
I am informed that PowerPatch1 for 6.0 has already shipped. Actually, I
think it was called Express 1. Uh-oh... let's not get started on that...

Michael Dovano
MPE/iX OS Patch and Installation
Commercial Systems Division, Hewlett-Packard
19447 Pruneridge Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
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