HP-UX 11i v3 March 2014 Release Notes

• New: HP-UX Large PID: The range of Process Identifiers (PID) the kernel can generate in a
stand-alone HP-UX system has been expanded from 0 ~ 30,000 to 0 ~ 2^^30-1
(1,073,741,823).
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Enhanced to support the Agile Hardware Path Addressing
and Persistent Device Special Files; enhanced to allow for Online deletion of OLRAD cards;
now reads the detailed CRA report from the log file in which the report is logged after the
change in the CRA behavior; and more.
• HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables
msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs;
indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables
msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic.
• HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01. All functionalities for
association classes are now implemented.
• New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments
the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount
classes.
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Now displays information about all slots on HP-UX 11i v3
system.
• New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended
to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3.
• HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01, but no new feature changes.
• Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.0.x with multipath-awareness, new approach for addressing
I/O, automatic management of the system boot path for multiple path configurations,
user-selectable format for recovery archives and golden archives, and other changes.
• New: Kernel Tunable Values Reset From Boot Prompt: HP-UX 11i v3 release provides a new
feature in which kernel tunable values can be reset from the boot prompt.
• New: Livedump: Provides the ability to take a crashdump on a live system without a forced
shutdown or panic of that system. Implemented for Itanium®-based platforms only.
• New: Long Username / Groupname: Current limit enhanced from 8 to 255 bytes. By default
8 is still the limit. With an enabler this limit can be enhanced to 255. Once enabled, cannot
be disabled in the future. Not supported for trusted systems.
• New: Node and Host Name Expansion: Provides the ability to set node and host names up
to 255 bytes.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs
to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible
products and/or drivers.
• Online Diagnostics product: Includes several enhancements and features, including support
for the Interface Expansion Program (IEP) for large username, groupname, PIDs, and nproc;
support of additional features of HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), such as support for notification
of events due to dynamic CPU migration; support for agile view of devices, for reporting
extended hardware path of devices, for reporting recovered Machine Check Aborts; and
other features and changes.
• SCSI Kernel Tunables: scsi_maxphys, scsi_max_qdepth anddefault_disk_ir kernel
tunables are obsolete.
• Software Distributor: Updated to version 11.31 with support for HP-UX 11i v3-unique features
including large pid, long usernames and group names; and improved support for high level
software deployment tools such as Software Manager, update-ux, and future tools. Includes
defect fixes.
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