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HP MPE
V
Release
23
Based on your feedback in August
1991, Hewlett
-
Packard committed
to provide five of the top seven
Systems Improvement Committee
(SIC) special interest user's group
requested enhancements and to
fix
20
of the top
40
service requests.
HP
MPE
V
Release
23,
shipping
in
May, has met and exceeded com-
nutments.
HP
MPE
V
Release 23
has six of the top eight requested
enhancements, and
35
of the top
40
service requests have been fixed.
The
enhanc.ements strengthen
HP
MPEXX
compatibility.
Higher reliability
is
achieved
through ongoing efforts to
fix
service requests. These fixes and
the enhancements on
HP
MPE
V
Release 23 help reduce the time
and resources required to manage
systems.
SIC requested enhancements
include:
Showboat
-
shows
%
of active
spoolfile remaining
Logical console
-
switches to
physical console LDEV on modem
logoff
Store
-
has nine
-
level exclusion
fileset for store and restore
Spoolfiles
-
purges by date,
priority, and user account
Restore
-
shows the date tape
was created
Jobinfo
-
shows users who
streamed the job
Additional enhancements and
improvements include:
Restore DDS
-
provides faster
file restoration for digital
-
audio
tapes
HP
EXPLAIN
utility
-
includes
new online facility that provides
cause
-
and
-
action information on
system errors
System performance measure
-
ment
-
has expanded interface to
support the maximum number of
processes on
HP
MPE V/E
Frocess priority oscillation
-
provides increased control over
allocating CPU resources
COBOL
performance improve
-
ment
-
has trap handling code
change to provide increased
performance for many large
COBOL programs
Job
file
date
-
allows streaming a
job to no longer cause the modifi
-
cation date in the job file label to
be updated
Supacct.pub.sys
-
eliminates
fieldjob.
SYS
account has lock
access set to Any. Job output
is
reduced by one
-
third and
RJE
capabilities are set correctly.
You should wait for
nonnal distribu
-
tion of the next platform release,
Release 2P, scheduled for fall 1992,
since Release 2P
will
provide a
support
life
of
48
months.
Introducing
HP EXPLAIN
In
response to your feedback,
Hewlett
-
Packard
is
introducing a
new
utility
that
will
be available
with
HP
MF'E V/E Release 23
(G.08.00).
HP
EXPWN
allows you
quick
onhe access to explanations
of
HP
MF'E
V
system error mes
-
sages. It
can
run
on virtually any
terminal and does not require any
special capabilities. You can *lay
or print explanations for messages
or perform a key word search of the
messages in the system catalog by
search string or by number. Three
sets of messages are documented
with
explanations.
Enhanced
HP
LaserROM/UX
retrieval software
8
New
HP
9000
Model
8x71
HP 3000 Series
9x7
floatmg
point
upgrade
CPU
board option
10
New ergonomic
text
term.kmhforHP3000
25
New low emissions
text
terminals for HP 3000
and
9000
26
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HP
Computer
Update, March
1992
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