Fujitsu Siemens Computers *2 *7 BS2OSD(BS2000/OSD) Version 6.
*2 Release Notice BS2OSD V6.0B 1 General 3 1.1 Ordering 1.2 Delivery 1.3 Documentation 2 Software extensions 2.1 Adaptations to CFCS 4.3 2.2 Enhancement of multiprocessor performance via AS/RM lock breakup 2.3 Data spaces 2.4 Performance enhancement of CCOPY in conjunction with HSMS V7.0A and ARCHIVE V7.0B 2.5 Functional extensions for SM pubsets 2.6 Number of MRSCAT entries > 1024 2.7 Faster failure detection in MSCF 2.8 Reorganizing open files 2.9 Tape blocks > 32 KB 2.10 File encryption 2.
.4 Product use 3.5 Obsolete functions (and those to be discontinued) 3.5.1 Obsolete macros 3.5.2 Obsolete commands 3.6 Incompatibilities to BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0C 3.7 Restrictions 3.8 Procedure in the event of errors 4 Hardware support 4.1 Central units 4.1.1 changed support 4.1.2 Discontinued support 4.1.3 Extended support 4.2 Channels 4.2.1 Changed support 4.2.2 Discontinued support 4.3 FC switches 4.4 Disk controllers 4.4.1 Changed support 4.4.2 Discontinued support 4.5 Magnetic tape devices 4.5.
1 General This Release Notice is a summary of the major extensions, dependencies and operating information with respect to the delivery components of the BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0 *) package that are contained in the following technical delivery units: 'BS2GA.APACHE V6.0', 'BS2GA.CRTE-BAS V6.0', 'BS2GA.JENV V6.0', 'BS2GA.POSIX V6.0', ’BS2GA.SNMP V6.0’, ’BS2GA.WTOSD V6.0’ 'BS2GA.BS2OSD V6.0', 'BS2GA.DSSM V6.0', 'BS2GA.LLMAM V6.0', 'BS2GA.SDF V6.0', 'BS2GA.SPOOL V6.0', 'BS2GA.IMON V6.0', 'BS2GA.PLAM V6.0', 'BS2GA.
*7 *1 *1 *5 *7 *5 *5 SYSFGM.PERL.058.E SYSFGM.PLAM.034.e SYSFGM.POSIX-BC.060.E SYSFGM.PTHREADS.010.E SYSFGM.SDF.046.E SYSFGM.SIR.150.E SYSFGM.SNMP-LIGHT.050.E SYSFGM.SNRTP.010.E SYSFGM.SPCONV.011.E SYSFGM.SPOOL.048.E SYSFGM.STRT.150.E SYSFGM.TOMCAT.055.D SYSFGM.WEBTRANS-OSD.071.E The Release Notice SYSFGM.BS2XC.022.E must also be noted for SX Servers.
*2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *4 *2 *5 *2 *2 *2 *5 BS2CP BS2000-EXEC BUILDER C-TPR-LZS CALENDAR CALENDAR-TU CAPRI CCOPY COSMOS-BC CPR DAMP DCADITO DIV DIVTRAC DLMUSER DPAGE DWS ELFE ESS-DOORS FASTPAM FITC GCF GET-TIME GSMAN GSVOL HELGA IDIAS INIT IOCFCOPY IOGEN IORM IOTRACE JITSYS JMP JMU JOBSCHED JPPOPT LMSCONV LNM MIP MSCFANC MSGMAKER NDMDAMP NKISAM NKISTRAC NKS NKV NLMSERVE PAMCONV PAMINT PASSWORD PCA PTHREADS PVSREN RESLOG RMS SANCHECK SCDM SHOW-FILE SMI 15.0B 15.0B 1.0A 2.3A 15.0A 15.0A 1.5A 5.0B 15.0B 15.
*2 *2 *2 *5 *2 *5 *2 SMPGEN-S SMPGEN-U SPCCNTRL STATUS SRPMNUC SYSFILE TANGBAS TANGRAM TPCOMP2 TPRLAM TSOSLNK TULAM UTM-SM2 VOLIN WARTOPT 15.0B 15.0B 15.0B 15.1B 15.0B 15.0C 1.3A 1.3A 15.0A 15.0A 21.0E 15.0A 15.0A 15.0B 15.0B Utility program Utility program Utility program Utility program Utility program BS2GA.CRTE-BAS *4 *4 *4 *4 CRTE-BAS CRTE-BASYS CRTE-MSG POSIX-HEADER 1.6A 1.6A 1.6A 1.6A BS2GA.DSSM DSSM ROSI SSCM 4.1A 15.0A 2.3B BS2GA.IMON *4 *4 *4 IMON IMON-BAS IMON-GPN IMON-SIC 3.0A 3.
BS2GA.SDF DISPLAY FHS-TPR SDF SDF-CONV SDF-I SDF-P-BASYS SDF-PAR SDF-SFC SDF-SRV SDF-U VAS *5 1.0B 8.2D 4.6A 3.0B 4.1A 2.4A 1.1A 3.1A 3.0C 4.1F 2.3B BS2GA.SIR *2 SIR 15.0B BS2GA.SNMP SNMP-LIGHT 5.0A BS2GA.SPOOL *7 BS2ZIP PRMMAN PRMPRES SNRTP SPCONV SPOOL SPOOLSYS SPSERVE SPSRVMAN *5 1.2A 1.3A 1.2A 1.0B 1.1A 4.8A 2.2A 2.8A 2.3A BS2GA.STRT *2 *2 *2 IPL SLED STRT 15.0B 15.0B 15.0B BS2GA.WTOSD *5 WEBTRANS-OSD 7.
The documentation for the remaining technical delivery units is listed in the respective Release Notices.
The documentation is available as online manuals under http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com or can be ordered in printed form at extra cost under http://fsc-manualshop.com The product Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read or print the manuals in PDF format. The Release Notices are also available online under http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com or under You will also require the hardware manuals for the hardware peripherals you are using.
2 Software extensions Only the main extensions and enhancements over the previous version BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 are described in the following sections. 2.1 Adaptations to CFCS 4.3 The progress reporting in CFCS 4.3 for different requirements has been implemented in BS2000/OSD V6.0. 2.2 Enhancement of multiprocessor performance via AS/RM lock breakup A rise in the multiprocessor degree also increases the probability of lock conflicts, which in turn reduces performance.
2.5 Functional extensions for SM pubsets The new SMPGEN MODIFY-SYSTEM-MANAGED-PUBSET statement can be used to extend existing system managed pubsets by single feature pubsets, where each single feature pubset is turned into a volume set of the system managed pubset. The user data and the management and protection information of the new single feature pubsets and the existing system managed pubsets remain unchanged.
2.8 Reorganizing open files Previously, it was only possible to reorganize closed files in pubsets or volumes with SPACEOPT. As of SPACEOPT V3.0, open files can also be included when reorganizing pubsets and reducing file extents. Please consult the Release Notice SYSFGM.SPACEOPT.030.E for the complete scope of the innovations. 2.
The files are encrypted in pages with the symmetrical DES or AES encryption method. The encryption method can be selected via the FILECRYPT system parameter and can be changed dynamically. AES is used by default. The FREFCRYP system parameter can be used to limit the number of crypto passwords by only allowing new crypto passwords to be assigned for files of a specific ID. Only the crypto passwords of reference files from this specific ID can be selected for files on other IDs.
2.12 Four character mnemonic name for tape devices A four character hexadecimal device mnemonic (1000 – FFFF) is now also allowed for tape devices. A two character alphanumeric name is still allowed as previously for all device types. This makes more than 1300 tape devices addressable. Note: As of SINIX-2000-Z V8.1A K818.4, the SKP-X based on the PRIMERGY 470 hardware supports the CD drive as a tape device for reading CDs. Four character device mnemonics are not permitted for the CD drive on SKP-X. 2.
*2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 For SF and SM Pubsets, the maximum catalog file size will be increased to 32008 4K blocks, representing a 98% enlargement. In the case of SM Pubsets, the special catalogs #MIN, #JVC and #PTV can also be shared out among upto 100 catalog files, which corresponds to a new maximum catalog size of 32008 4K blocks and a 187-fold increase. The new part catalogs will be numbered serially from $TSOS.TSOSCAT.#M00 - $TSOS.TSOSCAT.#M99 $TSOS.TSOSCAT.#J00 - $TSOS.TSOSCAT.#J99 $TSOS.
2.14.2 Self-configuring NK-ISAM Pools in Data Spaces *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 To further relieve the system address area, NK-ISAM files are buffered in Data Spaces. At the same time, buffer areas are created strictly for individual files and no longer for file groups, thus reducing the number of lock conflicts over access to the buffer areas. The buffer areas are generated automatically by the system; the user does not need access to programs or JCL in order to make use of the function.
2.15 New functions of BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 1/2006 2.15.1 JENV V5.0 *3 *3 *3 *3 BS2000/OSD with the JENV V5.0 component has been certified as JAVA COMPATIBLE by Sun Microsystems, Inc. This provides the assurance that Java programs can run on BS2000/OSD without recompilation or other modifications. *3 *3 *3 *3 *3 *3 The current version 5.
2.16 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 2/2006 2.16.1 Autonomous, dynamic control of I/O resources (IORM) *4 *4 *4 *4 The new utility program IORM facilitates autonomous, dynamic control of the I/O resources, devices, controllers, channels (type S and type FC) and paths. Both S and SX servers are supported in native and in VM2000 operation.
*4 *4 Dynamic I/O load distribution for disks on the FC channel of the S server (DPAV) *4 *4 *4 Only one I/O can be executed at any particular time on a disk. If several applications with a large number of I/Os use the same disk, this can lead to high wait times. *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 Until now, static PAV (Parallel Access Volume) has been used on S servers since BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 to alleviate this problem.
*4 Limiting the I/O inclusion of single VM2000 guest systems (IOLVM) *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 Less important guest systems that have intensive I/O activity, can severely impede other, much more important guest systems that use the same I/O resources. The IORM function can detect such conflict situations and intervene predictively. To do this, IORM continuously collects the utilization values for all known I/O devices, checks the settings for IOLVM and intervenes in the control if necessary.
*4 *4 *4 data. As of BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0, a new system behavior will therefore be introduced with which the default value of the CCS name of a file is determined. *4 *4 *4 *4 Note: ISO8859-x variants should not be used as a system or user character set since all programs in BS2000 assume that the data is provided with a so-called invariant EBCDIC core. *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 Previous behavior: Up to BS2000/OSD-BC V6.
2.17 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 1/2007 2.17.1 Support for Unicode in BS2000/OSD via XHCS-SYS *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 Due to new EU directives, the previously supported character sets are no longer sufficient in the medium term. As of BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0B (correction level B62), support for Unicode supplements the EBCDIC character sets previously available in BS2000/OSD systems with the additional characters required in the European language theater.
*5 *5 *5 The UTF codes (Unicode Transformation Format) UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 Byte) and UTF-E that follows UTF-EBCDIC from IBM are supported in BS2000/OSD. 2.17.2 Support for Unicode by the software products *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 The software environment required for supporting the Unicode functionality is provided in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0 and V7.0. The support encompasses the following functional areas: - Programming (COBOL2000, ESQL-COBOL, IFG/FHS, AID). - Data storage (SESAM/SQL, ORACLE).
2.17.3 Improved SAN support (SANCHECK function) *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 Since the introduction of the fibre channel, the FC connection technology SAN (Storage Area Network) is being used increasingly for connecting Symmetrix storage subsystems and magnetic tape devices (CentricStor and LTO). The previous control functions in BS2000/OSD only allow a limited view of the actually present peripherals and their connections.
*5 The following tuning parameters can be modified dynamically: *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 FORCEDTERM HDSTNI HDPTNI HEAPSZ MAXTIMERC *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 Extensions to the POSIX installation program The POSIX installation program START-POSIX-INSTALLATION has been extended by the following functions for automated installation (batch mode): - Installation errors are recorded in the logging file /var/sadm/pkg/insterr.
2.18 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 2/2007 *6 *6 BS2000/OSD V6.0B correction level B72 does not contain functional extensions in the software products. 2.19 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 1/2008 2.19.1 Support for new Hardware *7 *7 *7 *7 *7 *7 *7 *7 In 2007, December release was given for the DMX-4 series Symmetrix disk subsystems with microcode e5772 for connection to BS2000/OSD via type FC channel and via type S channel. For BS2000/OSD-BC V6.
2.20 Implemented change requests / extended commands 2.20.1 MOVE-TASK-TO-CATEGORY The system administration can use the new MOVE-TASK-TO-CATEGORY command to change the assignment of a task to a category if, for example, it is necessary to provide better control of this task or relieve the load on a category. The command does not handle tasks with the task type "SYSTEM" and the category "SYSTEM" cannot be specified as the target category. It is not necessary to use the PCS (Performance Control System). 2.20.
2.20.4 NTP/BS2 TimeServer with highest priority The time server NTP (NETWORK-TIME-PROTOCOL) is the server with the highest priority in BS2000 when the stratum value is less than five or the system parameter NTPSHIGH is set to "Y" (yes) and BS2000 has not received a value from NTP about the supplied time quality (stratum) because interNet Services earlier than V3.0B is in use. This ensures that ADJUST-TIME jobs only change the system time under the control of the NTP server. 2.20.
2.20.9 Catalog expansion commands *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 *2 ADD-CATALOG-FILE With this command up to 100 special catalogs can be created for SM Pubsets in the catalog format “extra large” for migrated files, job variables and private disk/volume files. The names of the new catalog files have the form ::$TSOS.TSOSCAT#xnn, where x refers to the special catalog and nn is a consecutive numbering (00 – 99).
2.20.11 Extended commands for setting CCS defaults *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 CREATE-FILE / CREATE-FILE-GROUP The CODED-CHARACTER-SET operand has been extended by the USER-DEFAULT parameter which is simultaneously also the new default value. If this entry is not EDF03IRV, when a file is created the CCS entry of the ID is taken over into the CCS name of the file. If EDF03IRV is entered for the ID, the file is assigned the CCS name *NONE, as previously.
3.2 *5 *5 Software configuration The following SOLIS correction levels are required in the source version for BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0: BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 (as of correction level C71) or BS2000/OSD-BC V4.0 (as of correction level A71) If systems running BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 or V4.0 are operated in parallel, this correction level must also be used on these systems. *1 *1 *1 *1 *2 *2 *1 *2 *2 When using BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0, new versions of many of the system level software products must also be used.
*2 *2 *1 *5 *5 *5 *1 *1 *1 *1 *5 *1 *1 *1 *1 *5 *1 *5 *1 *1 *5 *1 *5 *2 *5 *5 *1 *5 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *1 *6 *5 OMNIS OMNIS-MENU openCRYPT SERV openFT openNet Server openUTM PASCAL-XT PASSAT PLI1 PCS PERCON PROP-TPM PROP-XT RAV RFA ROBAR RPG3-XT RSO SBA-BS2 SCA SCCA-BS2 SDF-A SDF-P SECOS SESAM/SQL SHC-OSD openSM2 SORT SPACEOPT SSA-OUTM-BS2 SSA-SM2-BS2 SSC-BS2 TASKDATE TIAM TLS UDS/SQL VM2000 V8.3/V8.4 V3.3/V3.4 V1.2 V8.0/V9.0/V10.0 V3.0/V3.1/V3.2 V5.2/V5.3 V2.2 V6.2 V4.2 V2.7 V2.8/V2.9 V3.0 V1.2 V5.0 V15.
Innovations in IMON V2.8: The new CHECK-UNITS function allows you to check that the system is complete, correct and up to date. For customer-specific installations, all installation parameters can be saved into a standardized parameter file and passed over to IMON for all subsequent installations. All //SHOW statements are extended with the STRUCTURE-OUTPUT operand. The /MODIFY-IMON-SCI command also works for parked software and working files. Special features of the POSIX installation are supported.
*4 Innovations in IMON V3.0 *4 *4 With IMON V3.0, delivery units that are parked on a key-formatted pubset can be installed on a non-key-formatted pubset. *4 *4 *4 Previously, the statement GENERATE-IDF displayed all delivery units. Only the installed delivery units are now offered in the dialog. *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 *4 As of IMON V3.0, the TASKLIB and MACROLIB can also be installed under a default user ID (DEFLUID system parameter) other than TSOS.
For availability reasons, you are strongly advised not to perform an update installation on the active home pubset! Certain hardware requirements must be fulfilled for a first-time installation: the installed hardware configuration must be a superset of the minimum configuration, i.e.
BCAM memory values: The values for the maximum size of the resident and paging memory for data transfers are calculated by BCAM at startup from the size of the system memory (BS2000 MEMSIZE system value). The relevant RESMEM and PAGMEM parameters should not be generally be specified in the BCAM /DCSTART, /DCOPT and /BCMOD commands, but should retain their values set by BCAM.
The following class 2 system parameters have been discontinued: - CCPUNORM - DELLOGLN The following class 2 system parameters have been changed: *1 - JTABSMEM Defines the maximum JIT memory on SX servers. The memory is requested as resident and must therefore match the memory available on the machine. As of BS2000/OSD V6.0A, the parameter default is 0 and JIT calculates the maximum memory space from the two values for MEMORY-SIZE and MINIMAL-MEMORY-SIZE.
New commands: The percentage of main memory used for big pages can be changed with the new command MODIFY-MEMORY-PARAMETERS. The command SHOWMEMORY-CONFIGURATION displays the current configuration of main memory, including the use of big pages. *1 *1 *1 The two new parameters/commands are only available on SX150 servers. They are ignored on S systems and on SX100, SX130 and SX140 servers. The command MODIFY-MEMORY-PARAMETERS is rejected with the message EMM2350.
3.5 Obsolete functions (and those to be discontinued) The following functions are no longer supported as of this version: - Paging on global memory - The utility program UGEN is no longer supplied. The internal name of the standard EXEC or the SYSSIZE is modified with the procedure SYSPRC.BS2000-EXEC.150. *5 *5 *5 *5 *5 - Software product CRHP2AFP As of SPOOL V4.8, the program is no longer part of the delivery scope. CRHP2AFP converts HP print resources into APA print resources.
3.7 Restrictions - Processing encrypted files Encrypted files cannot be accessed in BS2000/OSD < V6.0, they can only be displayed and deleted. However, in an SPVS network a slave access from within BS2000/OSD V6.0 is possible even if BS2000/OSD < V6.0 is running on the master system. - Tape backups with blocks > 32 KB In BS2000/OSD < V6.0, processing large tape blocks is rejected. - In BS2000/OSD < V6.0, the four character mnemonic name is not supported for tape devices.
Document types The following documents will be needed, depending on the situation: - SLED (following a system crash) - SNAPFILE - SYSTEMDUMP (following a system dump message) - SYSOUT/SYSLST logs - STARTUP parameter files - USERDUMP - Diagnose-Dump (IDIAS call: CREATE-SYSTEM-DUMP ) - SERSLOG file - CONSLOG file - SYSTEMREPFILE - Rep files of any subsystems involved and separate products - HERSFILE and possibly IOTRACE for input/output problems or device error messages User documents Depending on the er
For BCAM problems: - activate all DCM traces with /DCDIAG DCM.,MODE=SAVE and after reproducing the error, save the generated trace files S.DCTRAC.* with /DCDIAG DCM.,MODE=CLOSE or submit the diagnostic information to main memory with /DCDIAG DCM.,MODE=HOLD and evaluate it with ASTRID. For problems at the hardware and software interface: - HERSFILE - Hardware and software configuration - possibly IOTRACE listing.
4 Hardware support 4.1 4.1.1 *2 *5 *5 *1 Central units changed support The following business servers are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0. A prerequisite for using BS2000/OSD V6.0 on SX servers is the hardware abstraction layer X2000 V3.0 based on Solaris V8 as the base system.
4.1.2 Discontinued support - none 4.1.3 Extended support - none - 4.2 4.2.1 Channels Changed support FC connections are supported by the following business servers with F-CON capability via the FC channel: *5 S120, S140, S145, S155, S165, S170, S180, S190 and S200 (the IPL of FC is not possible on S120) *5 See the separate Release Notice SYSFGM.BS2XC.022.E for SX series business servers. 4.2.2 Discontinued support - none - 4.
*5 See the separate Release Notice SYSFGM.BS2XC.022.E for SX series business servers. 4.4 4.4.1 Disk controllers Changed support No changes have been made to the support for disk controllers with respect to BS2000/OSD V5.0C. The following models of the Symmetrix controllers from EMC2 are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.
4.5.2 Discontinued support The following is no longer supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0: - the magnetic tape device 3505 via SPCC 4.6 4.6.1 Printers Changed support The following printers are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.
