Page 2 - Release Notice BS2OSD V6.0B; General
Page 1 *2 Release Notice BS2OSD V6.0B 1 General 3 1.1 Ordering 4 1.2 Delivery 4 1.3 Documentation 7 2 Software extensions 10 2.1 Adaptations to CFCS 4.3 10 2.2 Enhancement of multiprocessor performance via AS/RM lock breakup 10 2.3 Data spaces 10 2.4 Performance enhancement of CCOPY in conjunction w...
Page 3 - Hardware support
Page 2 3.4 Product use 34 3.5 Obsolete functions (and those to be discontinued) 39 3.5.1 Obsolete macros 39 3.5.2 Obsolete commands 39 3.6 Incompatibilities to BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0C 39 3.7 Restrictions 40 3.8 Procedure in the event of errors 40 4 Hardware support 43 4.1 Central units 43 4.1.1 changed ...
Page 4 - The release level is that of April 2008. Changes in this correc-
Page 3 1 General This Release Notice is a summary of the major extensions, de- pendencies and operating information with respect to the deliv-ery components of the BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0 *) package that are con- tained in the following technical delivery units: 'BS2GA.APACHE V6.0', 'BS2GA.BS2OSD V6.0', ...
Page 8 - Documentation
Page 7 BS2GA.SDF DISPLAY 1.0B FHS-TPR 8.2D SDF 4.6A SDF-CONV 3.0B SDF-I 4.1A *5 SDF-P-BASYS 2.4A SDF-PAR 1.1A SDF-SFC 3.1A SDF-SRV 3.0C SDF-U 4.1F VAS 2.3B BS2GA.SIR *2 SIR 15.0B BS2GA.SNMP SNMP-LIGHT 5.0A BS2GA.SPOOL *7 BS2ZIP 1.2A PRMMAN 1.3A PRMPRES 1.2A SNRTP 1.0B SPCONV 1.1A *5 SPOOL 4.8A SPOOL...
Page 11 - Software extensions; Adaptations to CFCS 4.3
Page 10 2 Software extensions Only the main extensions and enhancements over the previous ver-sion BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 are described in the following sections. 2.1 Adaptations to CFCS 4.3 The progress reporting in CFCS 4.3 for different requirements has been implemented in BS2000/OSD V6.0. 2.2 Enhanc...
Page 14 - Increasing the size of volumes (disk resizing)
Page 13 The files are encrypted in pages with the symmetrical DES or AES encryption method. The encryption method can be selected via the FILECRYPT system parameter and can be changed dynamically. AES is used by default. The FREFCRYP system parameter can be used to limit the number of crypto passwor...
Page 21 - Support for conversion from 7 bit to 8 bit character set
Page 20 *4 Limiting the I/O inclusion of single VM2000 guest systems (IOLVM) *4 Less important guest systems that have intensive I/O activity, *4 can severely impede other, much more important guest systems *4 that use the same I/O resources. *4 The IORM function can detect such conflict situations ...
Page 22 - New ASTI Subsystem
Page 21 *4 data. As of BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0, a new system behavior will *4 therefore be introduced with which the default value of the CCS *4 name of a file is determined. *4 Note: *4 ISO8859-x variants should not be used as a system or user *4 character set since all programs in BS2000 assume that th...
Page 23 - Support for Unicode in BS2000/OSD via XHCS-SYS
Page 22 2.17 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 1/2007 2.17.1 Support for Unicode in BS2000/OSD via XHCS-SYS *5 Due to new EU directives, the previously supported character sets *5 are no longer sufficient in the medium term. As of BS2000/OSD-BC *5 V6.0B (correction level B62)...
Page 24 - Support for Unicode by the software products
Page 23 *5 The UTF codes (Unicode Transformation Format) UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 *5 Byte) and UTF-E that follows UTF-EBCDIC from IBM are supported in *5 BS2000/OSD. 2.17.2 Support for Unicode by the software products *5 The software environment required for supporting the Unicode *5 functionality is provid...
Page 26 - New system diagnostic tool Auxiliary SERSLOG Extensions
Page 25 *5 The following tuning parameters can be modified dynamically: *5 FORCEDTERM Forces termination of the subsystem. *5 HDSTNI Number of server tasks for asynchronous I/Os. *5 HDPTNI Maximum number of mounted local file systems. *5 HEAPSZ Maximum possible value for brk() system call. *5 MAXTIM...
Page 28 - Implemented change requests / extended commands; not be specified as the target category. It is not necessary to; ACS (Alias Catalog System) for job variables; guously identifiable with the alias name, i.e. there can only be
Page 27 2.20 Implemented change requests / extended commands 2.20.1 MOVE-TASK-TO-CATEGORY The system administration can use the new MOVE-TASK-TO-CATEGORY command to change the assignment of a task to a category if, for example, it is necessary to provide better control of this task or relieve the lo...
Page 31 - Extended commands for setting CCS defaults; Technical information; Resource requirements
Page 30 2.20.11 Extended commands for setting CCS defaults *4 CREATE-FILE / CREATE-FILE-GROUP *4 The CODED-CHARACTER-SET operand has been extended by the *4 USER-DEFAULT parameter which is simultaneously also the new *4 default value. *4 If this entry is not EDF03IRV, when a file is created the CCS ...
Page 32 - Software configuration
Page 31 3.2 Software configuration The following SOLIS correction levels are required in the source version for BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0: *5 BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 (as of correction level C71) or *5 BS2000/OSD-BC V4.0 (as of correction level A71) If systems running BS2000/OSD-BC V5.0 or V4.0 are operated in p...
Page 33 - Product installation
Page 32 *2 OMNIS V8.3/V8.4 *2 OMNIS-MENU V3.3/V3.4 *1 openCRYPT V1.2 SERV *5 openFT V8.0/V9.0/V10.0 *5 openNet Server V3.0/V3.1/V3.2 *5 openUTM V5.2/V5.3 *1 PASCAL-XT V2.2 *1 PASSAT V6.2 *1 PLI1 V4.2 *1 PCS V2.7 *5 PERCON V2.8/V2.9 *1 PROP-TPM V3.0 *1 PROP-XT V1.2 *1 RAV V5.0 *1 RFA V15.0 *5 ROBAR V...
Page 35 - Product use
Page 34 *4 Innovations in IMON V3.0 *4 With IMON V3.0, delivery units that are parked on a key-formatted *4 pubset can be installed on a non-key-formatted pubset. *4 Previously, the statement GENERATE-IDF displayed all delivery *4 units. Only the installed delivery units are now offered in the *4 di...
Page 36 - File protection attributes:
Page 35 For availability reasons, you are strongly advised not to perform an update installation on the active home pubset! Certain hardware requirements must be fulfilled for a first-time installation: the installed hardware configuration must be a su-perset of the minimum configuration, i.e. it mu...
Page 40 - Obsolete functions (and those to be discontinued); Obsolete macros
Page 39 3.5 Obsolete functions (and those to be discontinued) The following functions are no longer supported as of this ver-sion: - Paging on global memory - The utility program UGEN is no longer supplied. The internal name of the standard EXEC or the SYSSIZE is modified with the procedure SYSPRC.B...
Page 41 - Restrictions; *2 Pubsets once imported in BS2000/OSD V6.0 can only be; Procedure in the event of errors; Information on the system environment
Page 40 3.7 Restrictions - Processing encrypted files Encrypted files cannot be accessed in BS2000/OSD < V6.0, they can only be displayed and deleted. However, in an SPVS network a slave access from within BS2000/OSD V6.0 is possible even if BS2000/OSD < V6.0 is running on the mas- ter system....
Page 44 - Central units; changed support
Page 43 4 Hardware support 4.1 Central units 4.1.1 changed support The following business servers are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0. A prerequisite for using BS2000/OSD V6.0 on SX servers is *2 the hardware abstraction layer X2000 V3.0 based on Solaris V8 as the base system. Business Server S110 B...
Page 45 - Channels; Changed support; See the separate Release Notice SYSFGM.BS2XC.022.E for SX series; Discontinued support; FC switches
Page 44 4.1.2 Discontinued support - none - 4.1.3 Extended support - none - 4.2 Channels 4.2.1 Changed support FC connections are supported by the following business servers with F-CON capability via the FC channel: *5 S120, S140, S145, S155, S165, S170, S180, S190 and S200 (the IPL of FC is not pos...
Page 46 - Disk controllers; The following models of the Symmetrix controllers from EMC2 are; Magnetic tape devices; BC V6.0 on S servers: the magnetic tape devices supported by SX
Page 45 *5 See the separate Release Notice SYSFGM.BS2XC.022.E for SX series business servers. 4.4 Disk controllers 4.4.1 Changed support No changes have been made to the support for disk controllers with respect to BS2000/OSD V5.0C. The following models of the Symmetrix controllers from EMC2 are sup...
Page 47 - Printers; - the laser printers; Other peripherals; ATOP
Page 46 4.5.2 Discontinued support The following is no longer supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0: - the magnetic tape device 3505 via SPCC 4.6 Printers 4.6.1 Changed support The following printers are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0: - the fast- / tape printers 3348-120x, 3349-120x - the laser printers...