J06.13 Release Version Update Compendium

3 Application Development Products
TS/MP 2.5
TS/MP 2.5 is the latest ACS based TS/MP release with the following features:
• Faster release of dynamic server links.
• Limited support for Pathway domains across nodes.
• Faster server shutdown and restart by reducing the server process cleanup time.
• Improved CPU utilization and load-balancing after a CPU reload.
• Support for large Pathsend dialog messages.
• Umask support for OSS servers.
• Single SPI command to get serverclass name for a server process.
• Wildcard support for SCF STATS DETAIL command.
• Change of ACS event # 1006 from fatal to warning.
• PATHMON to be delivered with HIGHPIN ON.
• New API GETTSMPVERSION introduced.
Migration Considerations
Users upgrading from TS/MP 2.0 to TS/MP 2.5 need to follow the migration considerations
described in the TS/MP 2.5 Release Supplement. Pathways need to be cold started after installation
of TS/MP 2.5.
Fallback Considerations
If the users have changed their application program to use TS/MP 2.5 features, then they need to
revert to their earlier application program versions. This also applies to any Pathway configuration
changes that the users may have made. Users should save their old PATHCTL (Pathway
Configuration) file and use it with their earlier TS/MP SPRs. Or, if they maintain their Pathway
configuration in an 'obey' file, they can simply revert back any changes to this 'obey' file made
for TS/MP 2.5, and obey it with their earlier TS/MP SPRs to generate the PATHCTL file again.
TS/MP 2.5 Support in Pthreads
The following features are supported in the latest Pthread libraries (SPT/PUT) for TS/MP 2.5 release:
• Support for context sensitive large Pathsend dialog messages up to 2 MB.
• New APIs introduced are – SPT_SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_BEGINL_ and
SPT_SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_SENDL_ for SPT library and
PUT_SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_BEGINL_ and PUT_SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_SENDL_ for PUT
library.
Migration Considerations
Users need to upgrade their system to TS/MP 2.5 and pathways need to be cold started after
installation of TS/MP 2.5 to make use of the above Pthreads context-sensitive large Pathsend dialog
based APIs in their application.
Fallback Considerations
Users need to revert to their earlier application program versions.
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