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

Contents
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HP Electronic Support Center Security-Related Services. . . . . . . . . . . 9
1. Overview—MPE/iX Release 6.0 (C.60.00)
Communicator Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
MPE/iX Patches on HP Electronic Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
HP Instant Information for Delivery of Learning Products . . . . . . . . 20
2. System Information and Preparation
Updating to and Backdating from MPE/iX 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Planning Your Move to MPE/iX Release 6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Upgrading a Pre-997 Corporate Business Server to a 997 . . . . . . . . . 31
Special Note on SCSI Device Configuration for MPE/iX 6.0. . . . . . . . 34
New MPE/iX Release Obsolescence Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
HP System Account and Directory Naming Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3. System Management
User-Defined Job Queues and ALTJOB HIPRI Enhancements . . . . . 42
Overview of HP Patch/iX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Overview of HP Stage/iX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Transaction Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Increase in Number of TCP Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Overview of CI Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
MPE/iX POSIX Installation Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
DNS BIND/iX and Syslog/iX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Easytime/XL Bundled with MPE/iX 6.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4. System Support Tools
Predictive Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
On-Line Diagnostic System (Sherlock). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
GLANCE has a New Name and a New Home!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5. Application Development
Transact V and Transact/iX Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Dictionary/3000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Inform/V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
HP ALLBASE/BRW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
COBOL II/iX Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
QUERY/iX Enhancements Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
IMAGE/SQL and TurboIMAGE/XL Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Features in ALLBASE/SQL Version G3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6. Data/Application Integration
DCE RPC Clients for FOS through MPE/iX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82