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Highlights from our recent on-line customer news. The links and full articles are available at www.robelle.com/news |
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What’s Up DOCumentation
1700
Disk I/Os Per Second Here
is some HP 3000 news picked up at a talk by Alvina Nishimoto of HP (at the
Summit Client Conference). One of HP's 3000 customers, an airline reservation
system running on a top-of-the-line N-class (4-way, 750 mz) with XP
fiber-channel disk arrays, is sustaining 1700 disk I/Os per second! The system
is running 90% cpu utilization and has no bottlenecks. They even hit 2000 I/Os
per second at some peak moments. We thought 400 per second was incredible a couple
of years ago! Help
Robelle Decorate Our New Office We
have a large bulletin board in the server room, but it is empty! So we posted a
postcard from South Africa (thanks Nicky) on the bulletin board. Now we want to
fill up the board with postcards from our travels and from friends of Robelle.
Fran sent cards from Las Vegas & Washington DC. Bobsy mailied one from
Oregon. Tammy is mailing postcards from New Mexico. Birket Foster sent one from
Anguilla, while visiting Bob. Can you
help out by sending a postcard? The address is Sometimes
the eventual solution of a tech support problem has almost nothing to do with
the original customer complaint. Read about this customer experience with
Oracle on HP-UX, where they started by thinking they weren't licensed for
Oracle access. In the end, we determined that he needed an HP-UX patch or a new
config file to bypass a 2 GB file limit. Tammy
at HPWorld-Chicago Tammy
Roscoe of Robelle will be attending HPWorld to meet customers and research the
HP market. We won’t have a vendor booth this year. Homesteading and
MPE Tips
Feedback from Frontline
People ... Chris Bartram Chris Bartram of 3K Associates is the
creator of NetMail for the HP 3000 and other Internet products. Chris operates
the www.3k.com web site, which contains lots of useful information for HP3000
users. Chris has been a 3000 booster for years. When we caught up with Chris,
he had this to say: “I'm still consulting for one main client, which still runs
a couple of HP 3000s, though as ‘legacy’ systems (read only).“ Click the link
above to read the entire interview. Jeff
Vance at Virtual CSY in Cupertino (jeff.vance at hp dot com) has released HP's
response to the "tactical" requests in the recent SIB. "At
this time we intend to fully or partially implement seven out of the top 15
requested [tactical] items, including the top two items: network printing and
ftp security enhancements. We are saying no to seven of top 15 items; however,
two of the seven have usable scripting work-arounds. We don't yet have an
answer for one item (SCSI pass-thru) which is currently being
investigated." Click the link above to read HP's full reply. More
Feedback from
the Front Lines This
time we interview Paul Edwards who has been an HP 3000 contributor for almost
as long as I can remember. Paul writes: "Last year was terrible for
consultants. No work at all in the HP 3000 community. I'm doing more this year
so far than all of last year. My work so far this year has been Wireless
Internet Installations, PC support, and RAID array installations at HP 3000
homesteading sites." Click the link above to read the full interview
and learn lots about RAID on the 3000. HP 3000 Long Term Storage and
Maintenance Service If
you are migrating off the HP 3000, you might want (or be required to) maintain
access to old data in the original format. Beechglen will maintain your 3000
system at their data center, providing you access to the system via secure
Internet (VPN) access. Your organization will still have access to the
historical data, but you won't need to maintain a staff of knowledgeable MPE
resources. Qedit Tips
If
you are moving from MPE to HP-UX, you may find yourself looking for a
replacement for the Quad editor on MPE. Qedit is an alternative that runs on
both platforms. The
biggest difference between Quad and Qedit is the special Quad way of keeping
track of file changes in a separate file. Qedit does not do this. The second
difference is that Qedit has an extensive full-screen mode that includes Cut
and Paste, function keys to move ahead and back a page, search functions, and
much more. When
shifting from Quad to Qedit, you may find our comparison chart helpful (keep in
mind that we are not Quad users, so our comparison is generated from the
documentation only). Click link above. |
Suprtool Tips
Oops - Set
Fastread Has a Problem Suprtool/UX
4.8 has a new feature for Eloquence called Set Fastread On. This enables a
special serial access method which is 3 to 5 times faster. Unfortunately, we have
discovered a problem. When Set Fastread is On, the Chain command (which doesn't
use fastread), does not return the correct records. This is corrected in
Suprtool/UX 4.8.01, which has become the current production version. Suprtool
for MPE is not affected. Another Amazing Year for
Suprtool! As
you surely recall, last spring we released version 4.7 of Suprtool with expanded Eloquence support,
$Number, $Counter, $Total, $SubTotal, $Split, high-speed many-to-many links,
and more. If you thought that was terrific, wait until you see this spring's
release. Suprtool version 4.8 has even more improvements and will be sent to
each Suprtool customer at the time they renew their support for the year. Suprtool 4.8 has a $Edit function
for formatting data, just like COBOL has. Suprtool now allows up to 255 $split
functions per task. This means you can now parse almost any field-separated
data entry. Suprtool now has a $Findclean
function to identify records with specific characters in it. And on HP-UX, Suprtool now reads Eloquence
databases up to five
times faster. Eloquence routines
are now dynamically
loaded, using the libraries on your system. Dbedit for HP-UX
now works on Eloquence databases; and on Oracle databases in the ImaxSoft
version of Suprtool. The List command now has new options for listing to a file
on HP-UX. HP-UX and Migration Planning HP-UX
Resources: Software Porting and Archive Center for
HP-UX Here
is a very useful web site for HP-UX, containing Open Source packages which have
been configured and ported to HP-UX. Search the hpux-admin mailing
list Search
by date and text. When you click on a posting to read it, the text opens in
another window. Links/ Resources/ Industry News HP 3000 Resource: ROC
Software Tools Here
is the web page for Maestro (job scheduling), BackPack (backup utility),
SpoolMate (spool file management), Escalibro (share tape autochanger),
Formation (business forms) and TapesPlus (tape library). And here is the FAQ link. Printed Manuals for
Robelle Products Order your own personal Qedit or Suprtool manual to hold, mark up and dog ear. A useful service from Robelle: you can order on-line the latest manuals for MPE/iX and for HP-UX. These professionally bound manuals will be printed immediately upon your request and billed to your credit card (via a service called OnDemandManuals.com). The Qedit manuals are $25 US and the Suprtool manuals are $30 US. Note: if you are happy with a PDF file or HTML-Help version, these are still free to download.
Powerhouse
Documentation Online The
Cognos site now has download archives for Powerhouse and Axiant. Useful
web site for file conversion, including text to PDF, CSV to FIXED, etc. Lots of
online tools, mostly conversion, but also determination of file type and more.
Link found in the Taurus
newsletter. Can't remember the hex code for circumflex? Or need it in Decimal or Octal or HTML? Use this web site (the link is from the Taurus newsletter). |
