Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 (C.70.00) (30216-90312)

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Announcements
Introducing MPE/iX 7.0 Release
Before Deciding On MPE/iX Release 7.0 -- Some Important Notes:
Due to development schedule conflicts, much of the newly introduced functionality in
MPE/iX Release 6.5 Express 2 is not yet present in MPE/iX Release 7.0. This functionality
will be available in an early 7.0-based Express release, which is due to ship in June or July
of 2001 and which will be proactively distributed ("pushed") to all HP e3000 customers
with current support contracts. For more information, please see the "Communicator HP
e3000 MPE/iX Express 2 Based on Release 6.5", available at http://docs.hp.com Customers
using any of these features should wait for the early 7.0-based Express release before
updating. The specific list of functionality present in Release 6.5 Express 2 that is not in
Release 7.0 is:
• QUERY/iX Enhancements
• TurboIMAGE/iX Expanded Limits
• Large Size Datasets in TurboIMAGE/iX
• AS Clause in ALLBASE/SQL
• High Availability FailOver for the SureStore E Disk Array XP256
• MPE/iX High Availability Cluster/iX
For similar reasons, Predictive Support is not available in MPE/iX Release 7.0. It will be
included in MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1.
Older series 9x7 servers are not supported on MPE/iX Release 7.0 or later. See the article,
"HP Will Retire Support of HP 3000 9x7 Servers," elsewhere in this Communicator
document, for more information.
New Web-Based Resource
New Web-Based Resource Enables Customers to Look Up MPE/iX Revisions Supported by
Software Vendors.
When planning an operating system upgrade, customers are interested in knowing if their
third-party software vendors have certified their products on the new release.
HP has created a new web-based resource that enables customers to look up revisions of
MPE/iX supported by third-party software vendors. For more information on this resource
or to look up a specific partner go to the following website:
http://www.hppartners.com/meet.php3.
NOTE Before undertaking an upgrade customers should check directly with their
third-party software vendors to ensure that they have acquired the proper
software revision levels.