Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 Express 1 (C.60.01) (30216-90286)

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Overview—MPE/iX Release 6.0 Express 1 (C.60.01)

Communicator Summary

Following are brief descriptions of the articles and chapters.

Chapter 1 Announcements

Important announcements regarding availablity of products and services are included in

this chapter.

• Future Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX

• Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives

• MPE/iX Patches on HP Electronic Support Center

MPE patches are now available on HP Electronic Support Center via the Internet to all

customers. New access instructions are in the article, "MPE/iX Patches Now on HP

Electronic Support Center," in chapter 1.

Chapter 2, Overview--Communicator Summary

This chapter provides a summary of information contained in this manual.

Chapter 3, Technical Articles

This chapter includes articles on the following features:

• CI Enhancements

This article provides information about CI Evaluator Functions JINFO, JOBCNT and

WORDCNT. It also provide information about CI Variables HPDATETIME, HPDOY,

HPHHMMSSMMM, HPLEAPYEAR and HPYYYYMMDD.

• NPCONFIG Variable to NW Spooler

This article provides information about the NPCONFIG variable with details on

conﬁguring the spooler.

• PATCH/iX B.01.02

This article provides information about a new dialog box in the Patch Qualiﬁcation

screen and a new activities menu item ‘[ ] Adding Reactive Patches from Download’.

• Announcing DLT4000/7000 Differential Tape Support in MPE/iX

This article provides information about two new stand-alone differential tape drives,

the DLT4000 and the DLT7000. It provides hardware and software requirements for

using the drives.

• IMAGE/SQL Enhancement: P and Z Data Types

This article provides information about this enhancement to IMAGE/SQL which allows

application programs to enter unsigned data into TurboIMAGE/XL ﬁelds with P or Z

data.