H06.08 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary of the products that have major changes in the H06.08 release version update (RVU), including the products’ new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations. The compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to H06.08 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases. Product Version N.A.
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H06.08 Release Version Update Compendium Glossary Index Tables What’s New in This Manual iii Manual Information iii New and Changed Information About This Manual v Who Should Use This Guide? Organization v Related Manuals v iii v 1. H06.08 Overview Major New Features 1-1 Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) Preparation, Planning, and Migration 1-2 1-2 2. Operating System OSS ACLs 2-1 Migration 2-1 Fallback 2-2 OSS Name Server Limits Relief Migration 2-2 2-2 3.
. Database and Transaction Processing Products Contents 4. Database and Transaction Processing Products SQL/MX 4-1 Fallback 4-2 5. Installation and Configuration Products 6. Manageability Products NetBatch 6-1 Safeguard 6-1 New Password Configuration Attributes 6-1 Safeguard Support for OSS ACL 6-3 Migration in a Safeguard Environment 6-4 Fallback in a Safeguard Environment 6-5 Fallback With Standard Security (Safeguard Not Installed) TCM & MeasTCM 6-6 6-6 7.
What’s New in This Manual Manual Information H06.08 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary of the products that have major changes in the H06.08 release version update (RVU), including the products’ new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations. The compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to H06.
What’s New in This Manual New and Changed Information H06.
About This Manual This compendium provides categorized information about new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations for H06.08. It also includes references and sources for migration planning. Who Should Use This Guide? This compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to H06.08 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases.
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1 H06.08 Overview This section provides an overview of the H06.08 RVU. Major New Features Table 1-1 summarizes the main changes in H06.08. For descriptions of new features, see the appropriate sections. Table 1-1. Summary of the H06.
H06.08 Overview Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) No products are removed from the SUT at H06.08. For recent product removal information, see the Discontinuation Notices at http://h20223.www2.hp.com/NonStopComputing/cache/77208-0-0-225-121.aspx.
H06.08 Overview • Preparation, Planning, and Migration For interoperability of SQL/MX releases between systems running G-series and those running H-series RVUs, see the SQL/MX Database and Application Migration Guide. H06.
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2 Operating System The H06.08 RVU contains these operating system changes: • • OSS ACLs OSS Name Server Limits Relief OSS ACLs The H06.08 RVU adds support for access control lists (ACLs) for HP NonStop Open System Services (OSS) regular files, directories, first-in/first-out (FIFO) special files, and bound AF_UNIX sockets in OSS Version 3 filesets.
Fallback Operating System If you migrate from H06.04, HP strongly recommends that you install DP2 fallback SPR T9053H02^AQM before installing H06.08, in case a fallback becomes necessary. The DP2 fallback SPR is included on H06.05 and later SUTs. Fallback To fall back, you must install the previous SPRs for the OSS products and for DP2.
3 Application Development Products The H06.08 RVU contains new features for these application development products: • • • • C/C++ COBOL Native Inspect pTAL C/C++ These new features are added to the TNS/E C/C++ compiler in the H06.
Application Development Products Fallback preemptable code, you must specify the new compiler option GLOBALIZED (Guardian) or -Wglobalized (Windows, OSS). Applications that use the new features are not backward compatible with pre-H06.08 compiler SPRs. Applications that use the new library features require a new C runtime library SPR that supports H06.08 or later RVUs. These applications cannot be used with pre-H06.08 RVUs.
Application Development Products • • Migration Larger maximum allowable object file size. The new OBJEXTENT directive enables you to increase the size of the extents used for the object file. This feature allows for larger object files. The OBJEXTENT directive is meaningful only in the Guardian environment. Nonpreemptable object code. The TNS/E COBOL compiler now generates nonpreemptable object code by default.
Application Development Products COBOL Substring Notation COBOL Substring Notation For H06.08, Native Inspect supports COBOL substring notation when debugging TNS/E COBOL programs. For example, given these statements in a COBOL program: 01 STRING PIC X(10). MOVE "Hi there" TO STRING. The following Native Inspect command prints two characters starting at index 1: (einspect) print String(1:2) $6 = "Hi" pTAL The TNS/E pTAL compiler (EpTAL) now generates nonpreemptable object code by default.
4 Database and Transaction Processing Products SQL/MX A new NonStop SQL/MX control query default (CQD) statement is introduced to enable users to specify that transactions always be doomed by SQL/MX when an unrecoverable error occurs. A new error message is introduced to indicate that the transaction is doomed. Set the CQD to ON for SQL/MX to doom transactions and for JDBC and ODBC to handle the error or return the error to the application or user. You must set the CQD to OFF by default.
Database and Transaction Processing Products Fallback Fallback When the newly introduced CQD is set to ON but does not function properly, install the previous version. The CQD is no longer available after fallback, and you must remove all references to this CQD in applications and recompile them. H06.
5 Installation and Configuration Products The H06.08 RVU contains no new features for the installation and configuration products. H06.
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6 Manageability Products The H06.08 RVU contains new features for these manageability products: • • • NetBatch Safeguard TCM & MeasTCM NetBatch NetBatch increases the WAITON limit for jobs from 20 to 50. You can now configure a job with a maximum of 50 master jobs. In addition, the error message and the help text are modified to reflect the WAITON limit change.
New Password Configuration Attributes Manageability Products PASSWORD-COMPATIBILITY-MODE The new password configuration attribute PASSWORD-COMPATIBILITY-MODE is used to determine whether a given user or alias is allowed to set passwords longer than eight characters. This attribute is set to ON by default. When you migrate to the H06.08 RVU, the longer password feature is not automatically enabled, and therefore the user or alias is not able to set passwords longer than eight characters.
Safeguard Support for OSS ACL Manageability Products can have a value between 0 and 64 inclusive, or between 0 and PASSWORD-MAXIMUM-LENGTH inclusive, whichever is smaller. There are special considerations. PASSWORD-MINIMUM-LENGTH is reset to 6 when PASSWORD-MINIMUM-LENGTH is greater than 8 and one of these situations is true: • • PASSWORD-ENCRYPT is changed from ON to OFF. PASSWORD-ALGORITHM is changed from HMAC256 to DES.
Migration in a Safeguard Environment Manageability Products the existing AUDIT-CLIENT-SERVICE attribute and is used in all SAFECOM and SAFEART display outputs. In the G06.29 RVU, the Standard Security (T6533) and Safeguard (T9750) were enhanced to support the OSS ACL feature. SECURITY-OSS-ADMINISTRATOR security group and Safeguard configuration attribute AUDIT-CLIENT-OSS were the two new features included in Safeguard. The OSS ACL feature is migrated to the H06.08 RVU from the G06.29 RVU.
Fallback in a Safeguard Environment Manageability Products Migration steps specific to the OSS ACL feature are: 1. Set the AUDIT-CLIENT-OSS attribute to ON. If you do not want to audit client subsystems other than OSS, you can disable the AUDIT-CLIENT-GUARDIAN attribute after migration. 2. Roll the audit file using the SAFECOM NEXTFILE command. Fallback in a Safeguard Environment The RVUs eligible for fallback from H06.08 are H06.06 and H06.07.
Fallback With Standard Security (Safeguard Not Installed) Manageability Products Fallback With Standard Security (Safeguard Not Installed) Fallback requires advance planning because Standard Security now supports longer passwords, which are not accepted by previous RVUs. When fallback is planned, the super ID user password must contain eight or fewer characters. The fallback steps, performed by the System Administrator, are as follows: 1.
7 Hardware Products Versatile I/O Enclosure Starting with RVU H06.08, the Versatile I/O (VIO) enclosure replaces the I/O adapter module (IOAM) enclosure in new HP Integrity NonStop NS14000 and NS1000 systems. Two VIO enclosures, one for each ServerNet fabric, provide connectivity for processor, Fibre Channel disk and tape, and Ethernet. For more information, see the Versatile I/O Manual.
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8 Networking Products iTP WebServer iTP WebServer supports these new features: • • • Certificate generation requests in UTF-8 encoding format Certificate addition and validation in UTF-8 encoded format Display customized error messages or send RST packets to the client when the number of connections exceeds the maximum configured value that is specified by the MaxConnections directive H06.
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A Sources for Migration Assistance and Information This appendix describes the assistance HP provides when problems arise during the migration and testing process. HP also provides services that can help you develop a migration plan and implement migration tasks. Most migration and release documentation is available through the HP NonStop Technical Library (NTL).
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) • Content file Contains a list of the product versions and software product revisions (SPRs) that are included on the site update tape (SUT). • README Contains information that was not yet available when the manuals or softdocs were published.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information • NonStop Technical Library (NTL) H06.08 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide Provides procedures for upgrading to the H06.08 RVU. Instructions include installing the H06.08 SUT and other related installation tasks. • Interactive Upgrade Guide 2 A browser-based tool that is accessed through NTL, this guide provides customized migration planning information and highlights new features.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information NonStop Technical Library (NTL) H06.
