TMF Reference Manual (G06.26+)

What’s New in This Manual

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New and Changed Information

This is the eighth edition of the HP NonStop TMF Reference Manual. This edition

describes the features and operations provided by the new TMF 3.3 product. In

addition, this edition incorporates TMF Supplement for Large Audit-Trail Files,

published previously with RVU G06.24.

This edition includes the following new and changed information:

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Section 1, Introduction to TMF, updates information about the SNOOP utility

described under TMFCOM Command Interpreter.

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Section 2, Using TMFCOM, revises the following items:

A Caution directing you to a manual supplement covering TMF limits and

defaults altered after this RVU.

A Caution about errors allowed by the previous version of TMFCOM.

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Section 3, TMFCOM Commands, revises a Caution directing you to a manual

supplement covering TMF limits and defaults altered after this RVU, updates

Table 3-1, User Security Restrictions and TMF State Requirements for TMFCOM

Commands, and presents two new tables: Table 3-2, TMFCOM and TMFSERVE

Version Interaction: Operational Commands and Table 3-3, TMFCOM and

TMFSERVE Version Interaction: Informational Commands.

In addition, this section explains new or changed features and revises some

discussions in the following command descriptions:

ADD AUDITTRAIL describes the ability to add audit trails while TMF is started,

updates the discussions of the FILESIZE option to support large audit-trail files,

and adds information on same-volume optimization for overflow volumes. The

discussion also revises some examples.

ALTER AUDITDUMP revises information in the BLOCKSIZE, COPIES

SERIES, and RESET COPIES option descriptions.

ALTER AUDITTRAIL explains the COMMITHOLDMODE, RESET

COMMITHOLDMODE, and COMMITHOLDTIMER options that support the

new commit-hold feature for audit trails. In addition, this discussion expands

the TMF state requirement for issuing the ALTER AUDITTRAIL command, and

revises the information about the FILESIZE and RESET FILESIZE options to

support large audit-trail files. This discussion also adds information about

same-volume optimization for overflow volumes. Finally, this discussion

presents many new command examples.

ALTER PROCESS updates the discussions EXTENDEDSEGSIZE Option

Considerations for the TMP and EXTENDEDSEGSIZE Option Considerations

for the TMFMON.