Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 (Platform Software Release C.60.00) (30216-90269)

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Technical Articles

IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements

IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL

Enhancements

by IMAGE/SQL Team

Commercial Systems Division

Overview

This article discusses enhancements as well as other important

information commencing with the Express 3 release of MPE/iX 5.5.

Express 3 (and later releases) also includes the revised editions of some

selected manuals.

Highlights

Highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL, version B.G3.00 or later, and

TurboIMAGE/XL, version C.07.14 or later, are the following:

• Dynamic data set expansion for master sets (MDX or DDXM)

• Performance enhancement for databases with third-party indices

• 80 GB data sets

• Predicate locks when updating manual masters

• DBSCHEMA and P type with odd sub-item length

• B-Tree indices enhancement

• New 16-bit and 32-bit ODBC driver, ODBCLink/SE, bundled with

IMAGE/SQL

• Support for third-party composite indices in IMAGE/SQL

• Scalability for DBPUT, DBDELETE, and DBUPDATE (CIU on)

• Dynamic detail data set expansion (DDX) ﬁx

Manuals Bundled with IMAGE/SQL

The following manuals are included with IMAGE/SQL:

• HP IMAGE/SQL Administration Guide

• Getting Started With HP IMAGE/SQL

• TurboIMAGE/XL Database Management System Reference Manual

(Revised August 1997)

• ALLBASE/SQL Database Administration Guide

• ALLBASE/SQL Reference Manual (36216-90001)

• ALLBASE/SQL Message Manual