iX V6.5 (30391-90011)

Preface

This manual describes the TurboIMAGE/XL Database Management System for the

HP 3000 Series 900 computers. It is the reference document for anyone designing,

creating, and maintaining a database and for application programmers writing database

access programs.

TurboIMAGE/V users will ﬁnd information and instructions on how to move from

TurboIMAGE/V to TurboIMAGE/XL in appendix H.

Designers of TurboIMAGE/XL databases will ﬁnd knowledge of the HP 3000 MPE/iX

operating and ﬁle systems useful in determining the amount of system resources, such as

disk space and computation time, needed to maintain a speciﬁc database. Because access

to TurboIMAGE/XL databases requires the use of a host programming language,

application programmers need familiarity with at least one of the programming languages

available on the HP 3000 computer: BBASIC, C, COBOL II, FORTRAN 77, Pascal, or RPG.

NOTE

In this manual, a word is a 32-bit storage unit and a halfword is a 16-bit

storage unit. One byte is 8 bits.

MPE/iX

MPE/iX, Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX, is the latest in a series of

forward-compatible operating systems for the HP 3000 line of computers.

In Hewlett-Packard documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will encounter

references to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX. MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL.

All programs written for MPE XL will run without change under MPE/iX, and you can

continue to use MPE XL system documentation.

You may encounter references to MPE V, an HP 3000 operating system that is not based

on the PA-RISC architecture. MPE V software can be run on the PA-RISC (Series 900)

HP 3000 computers in what is known as compatibility mode (CM).