HP 3000 Svstems
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.
MPE V Release 23, shipping
in
May, has met and exceeded
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
strengthen
HP
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
remaining
Logical console
-
switches to
physical console LDEV on modem
logoff
Store
has nine-level exclusion
for store
restore
-purges by date,
priority, and user account
Restore
-
shows the date tape
was created
-
shows users who
streamed the job
enhancements and
improvements include:
Restore DDS
-
provides faster
restoration for digital-audio
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
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
-
eliminates
SYS account has lock
access set to Any. Job output
is
reduced by one-third
RJE
capabilities are set correctly.
You should wait for
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
that
will
be available
with
HP
MF'E
Release 23
(G.08.00).
allows you
quick
access to explanations
of
HP MF'E V system error mes-
sages. It
can
run
on virtually any
and does not require any
capabilities. You can
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
retrieval software
8
New
Model
HP
Series
point
upgrade
CPU board option
10
New ergonomic
text
25
New low emissions
text
terminals for HP
and
26
HP Computer Update, March 1992
