G06.30 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary for the products that have major changes in the G06.30 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 G06.30 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases. Product Version N.A.
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G06.30 Release Version Update Compendium 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 RVU Manuals v iii v 1. G06.30 Overview Major New Features 1-1 Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) 1-2 2. Operating System OSS Name Server Limits Relief 2-1 New Feature and Migration Alert 2-1 3. Application Development Products 4. Database and Transaction Processing Products ODBC/MX 4-1 5.
A. Sources for Migration Assistance and Information Contents A. Sources for Migration Assistance and Information ExpressNotice A-1 Information on the Site Update Tape (SUT) A-2 Scout for NonStop Servers A-2 Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC) NonStop Technical Library (NTL) A-3 A-2 Tables Table 1-1. Summary of the G06.30 RVU 1-1 G06.
What’s New in This Manual Manual Information G06.30 Release Version Update Compendium Abstract This compendium provides a summary for the products that have major changes in the G06.30 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 G06.
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About This Manual This compendium provides categorized information for new features, migration issues, and fallback considerations for G06.30. 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 G06.30 affects installation, configuration, operations, system management, maintenance, applications, networks, and databases. Organization Section Description Section 1, G06.
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1 G06.30 Overview This section lists the major new features for the G06.30 RVU. Major New Features For descriptions of new features, see the appropriate sections in Table 1-1. Table 1-1. Summary of the G06.
Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) G06.30 Overview Products Removed From the Site Update Tape (SUT) The following products are removed from the site update tape (SUT) at G06.30: • • • • T9683 (NSX) T8975 (OMF) T8484 (NSXGEM) T5870 (OMFGUI) For recent product removal information, see the Discontinuation Notices at http://h20223.www2.hp.com/NonStopComputing/cache/77208-0-0-225-121.aspx. G06.
2 Operating System OSS Name Server Limits Relief New Feature and Migration Alert The default values of the INODECACHE and LINKCACHE attributes of the OSS Name Server are changed from 4096 to 64,000. G06.
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3 Application Development Products The G06.30 RVU contains no new features for the application development products. G06.
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4 Database and Transaction Processing Products ODBC/MX Information about the catalog and schema, along with the ODBC/MX resource statistics information, is returned in the EMS logs for event message 21035. G06.
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5 Installation and Configuration Products The installation and configuration products have no new features for the G06.30 RVU. G06.
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6 Manageability Products 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. • The scheduler now assigns job numbers consecutively in the range 1 through 32767. Previously, job numbers were assigned consecutively in the range 1 through 9999. G06.
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7 Hardware Products The G06.30 RVU contains no new features for hardware products. G06.
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8 Networking Products TCP/IPv6 Subsystem New Feature A new option is provided to cause XDCMPReconfigure to deny requests from a remote host. When this feature is enabled, XDCMPReconfigure does not respond to requests from the remote host. This new feature works by setting up filters that deny ICMP packets of type 17 (ICMP_MASKREQ). This feature enhances the security of the TCP/IPv6 subsystem. This new feature is disabled by default. (That is, remote requests are accepted).
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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) These documents are available on the Y9230Gnn release subvolume located on the SUT for each G-series RVU: • Content file Contains a list of the product versions and software product revisions (SPRs) that are included on the site update tape (SUT). • README This file contains information that was not yet available when the manuals or softdocs were published.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information NonStop Technical Library (NTL) NonStop Technical Library (NTL) In addition to this compendium, RVU and migration information is available in several other documents and manuals that you can access through NTL. Information is provided about planning your site for a new NonStop server, product installation and configuration, product availability in a particular RVU, and performance information for a specific RVU. • G06.
Sources for Migration Assistance and Information NonStop Technical Library (NTL) Serves as an introduction and reference to the TRM2000, the system migration and installation process, SPR analysis, and HP resources for evaluating new RVUs and SPRs. • NonStop S-Series Operations Guide Written for system operators, this guide describes how to perform routine system hardware operations for NonStop S-series servers.
