Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 Express 2 (Software Release C.65.02) (30216-90322)

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Announcements
Introducing Express 2 Based on MPE/iX 6.5 Release
1 Announcements
Introducing Express 2 Based on MPE/iX 6.5 Release
Customers looking for a solution that supports high system availability, reduced
downtime, improved redundancy and increased dataset support for applications such as
TurboIMAGE/iX, should order Express 2 release of MPE/IX 6.5. MPE/iX Release 6.5
Express 2 is expected to be available in late November 2000. It is a collection of
improvements in “High Availability” features and database support. The MPE/iX 6.5 base
release contains numerous performance and capacity enhancements that will allow for
more growth in high-end enterprise environments and bundled tools for web deployment of
the HP e3000.
MPE/iX Release 6.5 Express 2 features include the following
Performance and Capacity Improvements:
• Reduced planned or unplanned downtime – High Availability Cluster/iX provides
increased uptime by moving the mission critical data from the unavailable system to a
secondary system that is up and running.
• Protection against loss of server accesses to data.
• Support for N-way systems - High Availability Cluster/iX is not limited to 2-way
topologies. It can manage N-way systems.
• Improved switch over from failed I/O path to active I/O path – High Availability
FailOver/iX (HAFO) continually monitors SCSI reply messages for failed data path
components and allows MPE to switch to another active I/O path connected to the same
array.
• TurboIMAGE/iX Support for databases with dataset size greater than 80GB - This
enhancement in TurboIMAGE/iX removes the current 80 GB limit on the size of a
dataset so as to allow users to have really large datasets. Old and new format databases
can co-exist in the same system.
• Increased TurboIMAGE Limits - Number of items limit raised to 1200, number of sets
per database increased to 240, and number of paths for master supported up to 64. The
new limits will not be applicable for old databases created under previous versions of
TurboIMAGE/iX. However, these databases will continue to function with the old limits
and applications will be compatible.
• Improved and user-friendly ALLBASE ANSI AS Clause - This enhancement builds
support for AS clause in SELECT statements to help the user to give a more
meaningful name to the column headings.