HP Advanced Server V7.3B for OpenVMS and HP PATHWORKS V6.1 for OpenVMS (Advanced Server)

HP Advanced Server V7.3B for OpenVMS
The Advanced Server for OpenVMS ensures compatibility with a wide variety of clients and
legacy applications attempting to share server resources. Some of the Advanced Server for
OpenVMS features that help ensure such compatibility include:
• Extended File Specifications
Extended File Specifications, based on ODS-5, includes support for deep directories and
extended file names.
• Unicode characters or extended character sets
The Advanced Server for OpenVMS file server allows for certain Unicode characters and
extended character sets that are foreign to the Western European languages, making
available a broader set of characters not only for file and share names, but also for other
objects manageable by the Advanced Server, such as user names and group names. The
Advanced Server for OpenVMS provides six additional character sets with the potential
of supporting over 40 different languages. Though you can configure any one of these
languages, HP has tested and officially supports the following languages:
• English (USA)
• Hebrew
By giving you a choice of languages, the Advanced Server for OpenVMS can enable you
to configure the server to the local language of the server’s users. Most of the Western
European languages support the Euro currency symbol.
• Legacy applications with more restrictive file-naming conventions
Some legacy applications (such as MS-DOS) are more restrictive than the Advanced
Server, Windows NT, and other systems, in both the length of file names and in the set
of valid characters supported for file names. As a result, these applications cannot take
full advantage of the capabilities of the OpenVMS ODS-5 disk volume and longer file
names supported on the other systems. To enable compatibility with these applications, the
Advanced Server for OpenVMS automatically creates MS-DOS-compatible alias file names
for files whose names do not comply with the file-naming standards of those applications.
As a result, client applications that either must use or choose to use the MS-DOS format
for file names can access these shared files on the server by using the file’s associated
alias name.
Print Shares
The Advanced Server for OpenVMS software lets Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003,
Windows XP Professional, and OpenVMS users share printers connected to Alpha computers
or OpenVMS Cluster systems — as well as network-based printers such as LAT printers and
PrintServers. Print shares are supported in local area network (LAN) and wide area network
(WAN) environments. PC clients can print files from their desktop operating systems as well as
from PC applications.
Multiple print shares can be defined for a single printer. For example, separate services can be
created for landscape-mode printing and portrait-mode printing.
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