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

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Overview—MPE/iX Release 6.0 (C.60.00)
Communicator Summary
• "VPLUS Enhancements for Turn-of-Century" describes
enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the Turn-of-century
enhancement. Refer to the technical article in Chapter 10 for other
VPLUS enhancements.
• "Predictive" announces that Predictive is year 2000 safe.
• "HP MPE/iX Databases" describes the readiness of ALLBASE/SQL,
IMAGE/SQL, and TurboIMAGE/XL to handle the year 2000.
• "HP Stage/iX" announces that HP Stage/iX is Y2K compliant.
• "Documentation Changes for MPE/iX" provides changes to existing
documents.
• "RPG/iX 4-Digit Year Enhancements" describes the support for
predefined fields that return a 4-digit year.
Chapter 10, Technical Articles
• "QUERY/iX Enhancements" describes the enhancements made to
QUERY to utilize the new B-tree index features in TurboIMAGE/XL.
• "COBOL II/iX Enhancements" describes the new COBOL II/iX
enhancements.
• "IMAGE/SQL with TurboIMAGE/XL Enhancements" explains the
highlights of this release of IMAGE/SQL and reviews these features
of the previous release: B-Tree indices, and ODBCLink/SE.
Additional manuals are now bundled with IMAGE/SQL. Describes
the new IMAGE/SQL dynamic dataset expansion for master
datasets (MDX). Describes the highlights of this release of
TurboIMAGE/XL, B-Tree indices and Scalability. Reviews a problem
with IMAGE/SQL dynamic dataset expansion for detail datasets
(DDX).
• "New Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3" describes the new
string functions in version G3 and reviews the major enhancements
in version G2: new authorities for security and year 2000
compatibility. It gives an overview of the CAST function that was
added in the G1.15 release of ALLBASE/SQL. Describes the process
of moving pseudo-mapped files to mapped files before upgrading
ALLBASE/SQL to G3.
• "Year 2000 and Other Enhancements in VPLUS" describes
enhancements in B.06.07 version of VPLUS for the following
functionality: turn-of-century enhancement, ability to define default
Field Type and Data Type for a form, ability to define more than 52
single character fields per Form, new intrinsics to get and set Save
Field values programmatically, and the ability to renumber a Form
with interactive FORMSPEC.