Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1 (Software Release C.70.01) (30216-90328)

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Announcements
MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1
• ODBC and JDBC continue to be the prime database connectivity. Updated ODBC
access is provided via MB Foster Associates. ODBC/Link SE is bundled at no additional
cost with IMAGE/SQL and ALLBASE/SQL.
• HotSpot Virtual Machine- The HotSpot VM is a completely compatible alternative to
the Classic Java Virtual Machine. The latest Software Developerís Kit (SDK) for Java,
which is included with this release, contains both the HotSpot and the Classic JVMs.
The primary advantage of the HotSpot VM is performance. Benchmarks show typical
performance improvements of from 2 to 5 times when using the HotSpot VM compared
to the ëClassicí virtual machine shipped in all versions of Java to date.
High-End Functionality
• 100 Base-T on Core I/O card- PCI 100-BaseT LAN support is available on core I/O
module for MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1. This will eliminate the need for integrating
LAN card A5230AY as well as making an additional I/O slot available.
• BIGPIN Support- Now enabled on MPE/iX Release 7.0 Express 1, and running only on
the N-Class servers, is support for additional concurrent processes. Previous releases of
MPE/iX supported up to 8190 concurrent processes, and now with MPE/iX 7.0 Express
1, that limit is now up to 12,000. This improvement provides MPE/iX high-end
customers the ability to support additional users and process intensive applications.
• HP Predictive Support software- Predictive provides proactive hardware support and
helps increase the uptime of your systems by monitoring system memory and disk/tape
drives. When Predictive detects a potential problem, it sends a message to the HP
Response Center. The Response Center portion of the system screens the data and
forwards problems requiring further analysis to a Response Center Engineer. If action
is needed at your site, the Response Center Engineer and a Customer Engineer will
work with you to resolve the problem. This proactive hardware support is provided as
part of your HP Hardware and Software Support Services Agreement.
Performance and Capacity Improvements:
• Reduced planned or unplanned downtime ñ 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 ñ High Availability
FailOver/iX (HAFO) continually monitors SCSI reply messages for failed data path
components and allows MPE/iX 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 coexist 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