NonStop Software Essentials Installation and Quick Start Guide

To make finding and organizing data easier, many of the data tables displayed within
NonStop Software Essentials pages can be sorted by clicking on the column headings.
• Functionality mapping – The table below maps Planner Interface menu options (or buttons) to
the functional equivalent in NonStop Software Essentials.
NonStop Software Essentials Menu Option or EquivalentPlanner Interface Menu Option (or button)
Maintenance > Host ConfigurationMaintain > Configuration Manager
Maintenance > Manage PlannersMaintain > Security Maintenance > Planner List
Maintenance > Manage Host AdministratorsMaintain > Security Maintenance > DB administrator
list
Maintenance > Manage Volume UsageMaintain > Volume Maintenance
Requests > Show RequestsRequests > Requests List
Requests > Receive SnapshotRequests > Receive Snapshot
Requests > Software Installation > Receive SoftwareRequests > Receive Software
Documents > Create ReportRequests > Prepare Report
Documents > Show DocumentsFile > View Prepared Documents
Options > Server TracingTandem > Support Info > Server Trace
Options > Show Products in GroupsShow Products by Group (button)
Comparable to loading the work panel with the Target
page
File > Show Revision History
Target Maintenance buttons on the Configuration Revisions
page
Maintain > System Maintenance menu item
Target Maintenance buttons on the Configuration Revisions
page
Maintain > Target Maintenance menu items
• Other miscellaneous changes/improvements in NonStop Software Essentials:
Users with roles other than just planners can log on to NonStop Software Essentials, and
can view DSM/SCM information through NonStop Software Essentials.
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◦ Request names are more descriptive.
◦ The Request Status functionality monitors requests across both host and target activities,
and cancel and restart actions are easier.
◦ The Planner Interface uses less useful Private Product Groups as default; NonStop Software
Essentials supports only Shared Product Groups.
◦ Mixed (upper/lower) case support for Package, Package Group, Planner Group, and
Product Group names (names are not allowed to differ only in case).
◦ Receive Software has better pattern matching support for searches, and also differs in
that only selected DSVs will be received into the archive.
◦ Difference in how a composite product is displayed:
The DSM/SCM Planner Interface shows a composite product version on a single row in
a table, showing Update SPRs in this form: T6031H02 ()+AAA+AAB+AAC.
NonStop Software Essentials shows the same composite product version on a single row
that can be expanded to show the individual Update SPRs in their own rows. The main
benefit of this NonStop Software Essentials feature is that an individual SPR, such as AAC,
can be deleted from the new revision directly. To delete just AAC in the DSM/SCM
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