Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 (Non-Platform Software Release C.65.00 (30216-90291)

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Overview—MPE/iX Release 6.5 (C.65.00)

Communicator Summary

Following are brief descriptions of the articles and chapters.

Chapter 1 Announcements

Important announcements regarding availability of products and services are included in

this chapter.

• Introducing MPE/iX 6.5 Release -- provides overview of 6.5 enhancements.

• Removal of Support for Servers and HP-IB in MPE/iX -- details the discontinuance of

support for certain older servers and the HP-IB device adapter.

• Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives -- describes discontinuance

of High Availability Fiber Link disk drives.

• Obsoleted Products Removed from Release 6.5 -- lists the obsolete products that have

been removed from the SUBSYS tape for the 6.5 release.

• Files associated with Obsoleted Products -- Lists the ﬁles associated with these

obsoleted products: Resource Sharing, CCSY Access Server, CCSY Access/SQL and

Cooperative Services/XL.

• Obtaining Software Security Patches for your HP Computer System -- Describes the

process for obtaining security patches for HP systems.

Chapter 2, Overview--Communicator Summary

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

information about obtaining MPE patches from the HP Electronic Support Center.

Chapter 3, Growth Solution

This chapter provides technical articles about the Growth Solution, including the following

topics:

• Large Files overview -- describes the changes to the MPE/iX operating systems as a

result of the introduction of Large File functionality.

• AIFs for Large Files -- describes the four modiﬁed intrinsics for handling Large Files.

• AIFs for Multiple Job Queues -- describes the enhanced functionality for obtaining

queue information about multiple job queues.

• Increase in Number of TCP Connections -- describes an enhancement to allow 20000

connections.

• Dispatcher Multiple Runqueues -- describes the changes to the Dispatcher module

including improved system performance.

• Increased System Limits - an overview -- provides a list of the increased system limits.

• Support for 511 Disks on MPE -- describes how to conﬁgure more than 255 disks.