J06.07 Release Version Update Compendium HP Part Number: 538128-003 Published: June 2009 Edition: J06.
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Table of Contents About This Document.........................................................................................................7 Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)..........................................................................................7 Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................7 New and Changed Information in This Edition.............................................
8 Networking Products...................................................................................................25 DNS Server Can Run on a CLIM..........................................................................................................25 Fallback............................................................................................................................................25 FTP API Enhancements.................................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 Summary of the J06.07 RVU............................................................................................................
About This Document This compendium provides categorized information about new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations for J06.07. It also includes references and sources for migration planning. Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs) This manual supports the J06.07 RVU only. Intended Audience This compendium is written for system managers or anyone who needs to understand how migrating to J06.
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1 J06.07 Overview This chapter provides an overview of the J06.07 RVU. Major New Features Table 1-1 summarizes the main changes in J06.07. For descriptions of new features, see the appropriate chapters. Table 1-1 Summary of the J06.
Table 1-1 Summary of the J06.
• • • • • • • • For the physical, electrical, and environmental specifications used by HP professional service providers for site preparation, see the NonStop BladeSystem Planning Guide. This manual can be found in the HP NonStop Technical Library (NTL). For a J-series overview, see Section 1 of the J06.03 Release Version Update Compendium.
2 Operating System Increased Capacity and Resource Monitoring for the Open System Services (OSS) Environment This RVU introduces new limits for the Open System Services file system. These new limits are approximately four to six times higher than the previous limits. For example: • The maximum number of OSS file opens per processor, previously 12,000, has been raised to 64,000. • The maximum number of pipes per processor, previously 1024, has been raised to 16,000.
3 Application Development Products New HP COBOL Intrinsic Functions HP COBOL supports two new intrinsic functions, TEST-NUMVAL and TEST-NUMVAL-C. These functions test whether a given argument string is a valid input to the existing instrinsic functions NUMVAL and NUMVAL-C, respectively, and return a numeric indicator giving the character position of the first invalid character, or zero to indicate a valid input string.
4 Database and Transaction Processing Products Module File Caching for NonStop ODBC/MX and NonStop JDBC/T4 Drivers The Module File Caching (MFC) feature shares the SQL/MX prepared statement plans among the SQL/MX database connections. It helps in reducing the SQL/MX compilation time during the steady state of the JDBC or ODBC application, thereby reducing resource consumption. MFC uses disk files on the NonStop Open System Services file system for storing the compiled SQL/MX prepared statement plans.
• • • • • The FC command is enhanced in PATHCOM to enable the user to specify a number or string to edit or repeat a command-line. TS/MP 2.4 PATHMON now logs messages to its log files when any of these commands are issued: — ABORT — ADD — ALTER — DELETE — FREEZE — FREEZE — STOP — THAW — START The PDMCOM OPEN command is enhanced to accept a domain name. Use this command prior to any domain-level operations. The STATUS DOMAIN command is introduced.
5 Installation and Configuration Products The J06.07 RVU contains no new features for installation and configuration products.
6 Manageability Products Safeguard Enhancements Safeguard supports the following enhancements for the H06.18 RVU: Safeguard Manager Process Runs at High Pin The Safeguard Manager process $ZSMP now runs as a HIGH-PIN process. Previously, $ZSMP ran as a LOW-PIN process by default. Running $ZSMP at HIGH-PIN helps to reduce the total number of LOW-PIN processes running on a system, allowing more processes that have not been converted to use the D-series Guardian APIs to run at LOW-PIN.
OSM Enhancements • • OSM Service Connection (T0682H02^ABU) and OSM Low-Level Link (T0633G07^ABG) add support for the BladeCluster Solution for NonStop BladeSystems. OSM Console Tools (T0632G07^AAU) includes an update to the CLIM Boot Service Configuration Wizard to support migrating the DNS server from NonStop System Consoles to designated CLIMs (in addition to the DHCP and BOOTP server).
7 Hardware Products BladeCluster Solution Introduced BladeCluster Solution is introduced with the J06.07 RVU. It provides the capability to cluster NonStop BladeSystems and NonStop Carrier Grade BladeSystems by using built-in NonStop infrastructure. Nodes are directly connected via the ServerNet switches in the c7000 enclosures using ServerNet 3, the third-generation of the ServerNet interconnect.
8 Networking Products DNS Server Can Run on a CLIM As of J06.07, you can have the CLIM provide the Domain Name Server (DNS) in addition to the DHCP, TFTP, and BOOTP services, instead of having the NonStop System Console provide these services. One of the advantages of configuring CLIMs to run DHCP, DNS, and BOOTP services is that consoles do not need to have BOOTP and TFTP configured.
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).
• Outage Prevention Notifications, Hotstuff messages, and Support Notes • Prerequisites for an SPR • Available SUTs and Independent Products After researching available SPRs, you can download those you consider appropriate for your systems directly to your workstation, or you can request tape delivery.
