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

Chapter 4 67

System Support Tools

GLANCE has a New Name and a New Home!

by James Overman

CSBU R&D

Overview

As of the MPE/iX 6.0 Release, the performance tool, HP GlancePlus/XL,

has been renamed HP GlancePlus/iX. With version HPB1787B.09.06,

the program ﬁle has been changed from GLANCEXL.PUB.SYS to

GLANCEIX.PUB.SYS. For most users, these changes should have no

impact, as the GLANCE.PUB.SYS command execute ﬁle has been

changed to run the new program name. Users can continue to employ

the GLANCE command to access the tool as before. If users have used

the GLANCEXL program name in UDCs, they will need to either

change the references, use a logon ﬁle equate, or copy the GLANCEIX

program to GLANCEXL.

Several areas in Glance were changed to be more aware of the

Hierarchical File System (HFS or POSIX) naming convention. Most

noticeably, the Use command prompt now reﬂects the alternative ﬁle

names allowed (MPE or HFS). Also, the File display portion of the

Process Display screen has been rearranged to display more of the

longer HFS ﬁle names before truncation occurs. Other changes to

Glance include the display of the duration of the last data collection

interval, some general performance optimizations, and changes

necessary for MPE/iX 6.0 internal structural modiﬁcations.

Trial Program

The Customer Trial Demonstration capability will continue to be

available and to provide a one-time-only trial period for the use of the

Glance performance tool. Thus, all MPE systems come with a

GLANCEIX program that may be activated for the trial use. The

GLREADME.PUB.SYS ﬁle describes how to activate the trial period. The

trial software no longer resides in a separate group as in previous

releases. The trial program now resides at the same location as the

purchased product so that two differing versions of the program may

not be present on the system at the same time. Customers who have

purchased Glance will automatically have the trial version overlaid by

the full capability product. Those customers who have not purchased

Glance should leave the product ﬁles in PUB.SYS for use by the HP

Response Center is resolving problem calls.

The features described above are also available as patch GLAKX69 for

MPE/iX 5.0 and 5.5 but without the program renaming. Note that there

are unique versions of the Glance program for each operating system

version and they may only be utilized on the appropriate platform.