Today we have business solutions that allow robust data serving for today's
business environment, integration with other business systems and platforms,
and collaborative computing with both Compaq and non-Compaq environments.
| FEATURE
|
BENEFIT
|
Write Bitmap and Shadow Minicopy
- Performance and availability enhancement to Shadowing full copy.
|
- Greater system availability during backups with faster reintegration of shadow members after copies
- Enables faster reintegration of shadow member after copy
- Fully supported on OpenVMS Alpha, VAX systems can participate
|
Switched LAN as a CI
- Provides support for Gigabit Ethernet and ATM as full switched cluster interconnects.
- Allows all LAN devices to participate in load distribution of cluster traffic.
|
- Can easily manage and control multiple network adapters as a cluster interconnect
- Provides increased cluster traffic throughput with load distribution across multiple LAN interconnects
- Improves the disaster tolerant capabilities of an OpenVMS Cluster
with support for the high performance and long distance characteristics of ATM
and Gigabit Ethernet
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Extended File Cache (XFC) V1.0
- Replacement for the VIOC
- Extends the capabilites of cluster file cache
- Provides the following capabilities:
- Read ahead caching
- 100 closed files in cache
- Larger cache size
- More useful monitoring information to users
- Ability to configure cache memory as static and/or dynamic
|
- Improved I/O performance
- Better suited for handling larger applications
- Faster boot times
- Provides the following capabilities:
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Lock Manager Performance Enhancements
- Various features which simplify the use of locks in an OpenVMS cluster
|
- Improves cluster and application performance, SMP system performance, and scalability and application availability
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
RMS Locking Reductions
- Reduction to global bucket locking and record locking
|
- Improves RMS application performance
- Saves millions of locks for applications with a high ratio of read to write operations
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Fibre Channel and SCSI Fastpath
- Increases performance by moving processing off the primary CPU in an SMP system
|
- Improves storage performance and scaling in SMP systems
- Provides system management controls for designating a CPU or set of CPUs to offload the primary CPU
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Fibre Channel Tape Support
- Support for SCSI tapes in a Fibre Channel environment
- Compaq's Modular Data Router (FC to parallel SCSI bridge) is supported
- Multihost but not multipath
- Connects to a single Fibre Channel port on a switch
|
- Supported as a native OpenVMS tape device by COPY, BACKUP, etc.
- Tape device can be shared by all cluster members via TMSCP
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
SCSI 3 Tapes
- Provides support for new drives that meet the SCSI 3 standard
|
- OpenVMS provides support for newest industry standard tapes
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
CPU On-Line Add/Remove
- Ability to add or remove a CPU without rebooting the system
|
- Improves system maintainability and serviceability
- Supported on GS160 and GS320 systems
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Kerberos V5 Security
- Allows OpenVMS security model to accept Kerberos authentication
- Port of M.I.T. V5 Kerberos Release 1.0.5
|
- Allows OpenVMS applications to communicate and authenticate with Windows 2000 domains and most UNIX platforms
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Clusterwide Intrusion Detection
- Provides intrusion detection to the cluster versus only one node
|
- Provides higher security for OpenVMS Clusters by expanding the
current individual node-base intrusion detection to be Cluster-wide and Cluster
aware
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Offload Primary CPU
- Provides ability to move certain software off primary CPU
|
- Improves overall system performance in an SMP environment
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Large Pagefiles
- Provides ability to add/delete/expand pagefiles without rebooting
- Provides larger page files with dynamic management
|
- Improves system availability
- Improves application scaling by allowing applications to have larger address spaces
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Class Scheduler
- Provides a user interface that does not require an image/application to use the VMS class scheduling feature
- Can create a permanent class scheduling database so that classes do not have to be recreated after a reboot
|
- Allows CPU resources to be parceled out by user class
- Provides ability to limit the amount of CPU time that a system's users may receive by placing the users into scheduling classes
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Performance API
- Provides the $GETRMI system service for performance monitoring
|
- Allows performance software engineers to access a predefined list of performance data items
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Compaq Web Management Agent
- Consists of a web server for system management with management agents
- Utilizes Web-based enterprise management (WBEM) architecture
- Use SNMP and TCP/IP protocols
- Utilizes Compaq Insight Manager XE on an NT server as the management server/application
|
- Allows communication with devices on OpenVMS systems via the Internet or intranet
- Allows management of all Compaq platforms, including OpenVMS, from a single NT server
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Automatic Daylight Savings Time Service
- Optional feature that allows OpenVMS to adjust to daylight savings changes
|
- Allows OpenVMS to automatically adjust for Daylight Savings Time
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
CRTL Enhancements
- Strptime function was made XPG5-compliant
- Limitation of eight nested directory levels was lifted (Alpha only)
- Most C RTL functions now accept long OpenVMS-style file names as arguments
- Supports case preservation in file names (Alpha only)
- Supports exact-case argv arguments (Alpha only)
- Files can be implicitly opened for shared access
- Alternative way of translating UNIX file specs
|
- Allows Java and C run-time to support ODS-5 file names
- More e-business ready for customers wanting to run Java applications on OpenVMS
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
World-Wide PostScript Printing Subsystem (WWPPS)
- Adds the WWPPS feature from Asian OpenVMS into OpenVMS as a new DCL utility
|
- Provides ability to print text files in many languages on generic
PostScript printers that do not have resident language fonts
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Universal LDAPV3 API
- Provides capability to access remote directory services such as X.500,
ActiveDirectory or Novell's NDS using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP)
|
- Allows OpenVMS application developers, third party applications and
users to access LDAP directories anywhere in the enterprise, intranet, extranet
or Internet hosted by non-OpenVMS systems
- Automatically supports both 64-bit and 32-bit multi-threaded applications
- Common Object Model (COM) aware
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Fortran Support for 64-Bit Address (Alpha)
- Support added to allow Fortran developers to use static data in 64-bit address space
|
- Allows Fortran programmers to capitalize on larger static data areas without coding changes
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
ANALYZE/PROCESS
- New tools for processing dump files
|
- Allows for transportability of dumps (being able to analyze a process dump
on a system other than the system where the dump occurred)
- Allows 64-bit addresses
- Threads capable
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Spinlock Tracing Utility
- Analysis tool for characterizing spinlock usage
- Collects peformance data for a given spinlock on a per-CPU basis
|
- Allows you to analyze performance bottlenecks and potentially optimize
performance of your system or application based on the information generated by
the tool
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Multiprocess Debug
- Debugger support for multiprocess programs has been extensively overhauled
- User-interface has been improved
|
- Makes it easier to debug multiprocess programs
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
DECthreads V3.17
- Performance and scalability improvements
- Support for Compaq C V6.2-005
- Support for Visual Threads
- Common code base with Tru64 UNIX (V4.0D through V5.0a)
|
- Improves application performance and scalability
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Visual Threads
- Diagnostic tool that helps to analyze and refine multithreaded applications
- Contains functionality and enhancements to help find application problems before they occur
|
- Helps in debugging potential thread-related logic problems
- Pinpoints bottlenecks and performance problems
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
| Included Software:
|
|
| FEATURE
|
BENEFIT
|
Compaq Secure Web Server V1.0 for OpenVMS Alpha
- Based on Apache
- Includes Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the open standard security protocol
for the transfer of sensitive information over the Internet
- Features a first-of-its-kind certificate tool
|
- Provides secure transfer of sensitive information over the Internet, extranets, and intranets
- Certificate tool greatly simplifies creating and managing certificates through a simple user interface
- Licensed with OpenVMS and serviced under the OpenVMS service contract
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Mozilla Web Browser
Provides the following features:
- Customization capabilities
- Support for current standards including HTML4, CSS, XML, RDF and DOM
- Integration of mail, instant messaging, security features, and html document creation and editing
- Automatic translation of web pages for access to the global Internet
|
- Open-source web browser, designed for standards-compliance, performance and portability
- Original source base for Mozilla was Netscape Communicator
- Official supported web browser on OpenVMS Alpha
- Licensed with OpenVMS and serviced under the OpenVMS service contract
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
COM for OpenVMS
- Based on Microsoft's COM that shipped with Windows NT 4.0 SP3 and
implements on OpenVMS many Microsoft features, including activation,
automation, monikers, Type Libraries, and structured storage
|
- Delivers connectivity and interoperability between OpenVMS and Windows NT systems
- Allows programmers to write distributed applications that run across a heterogeneous environment of systems
- Licensed with OpenVMS
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
XML Technology
- The XML 1.0 recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) is supported along with the Document Object Model (DOM) and The Simple API for XML (SAX) APIs
|
- Provides a high performance XML parser and XSLT stylesheet processor that gives applications the ability to parse, generate, manipulate, and validate XML documents and data
- Licensed with OpenVMS and serviced under the OpenVMS service contract
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Attunity Connect "On Platform" Package for OpenVMS Alpha
- Subset of the full Attunity Connect functionality that includes ODBC, JDBC
and XML client APIs, and ODBC, XML and data/database adapters
|
- Object-oriented middleware which facilities the development of applications
that access, integrate, and update data from multiple, heterogeneous sources
across a wide range of operating system platforms
- Licensed with OpenVMS and serviced under the OpenVMS service contract
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
OpenVMS Enterprise Directory for e-business (LDAPv3/X.500)
- Combines the best of both the industry standard LDAPv3 and X.500 capabilities
- LDAPv3 allows access by a myriad of LDAP clients, user agents and applications
- X.500 delivers high performance resilience, advanced access controls and easy replication across the enterprise
|
- Delivers robust and scaleable directory services across intranets,
extranets and the Internet to customers, suppliers, and partners
- Licensed with OpenVMS
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Reliable Transaction Router Version 4.0
- Software fault tolerant transactional messaging middleware used to implement large, distributed applications using client/server technology
- Object Oriented Interface - introduces an object model now available in C++
- Web-Based Management - configure and manage RTR with Internet Explorer
- Shadowing enhancement
- License RTR with OpenVMS
|
- Shadowing enhancements - reduce transaction recovery time and inccrease data availability from a remote site
- Object Oriented Interface - greatly simplifies the development of fault tolerant applications
- Applications can inherit functionality from RTR
- Web-Based Management - configure and manage RTR with Internet Explorer
- Reduce cost of ownership - with RTR V4.0, license rights for RTR V4.0 and prior versions will be granted as part of the OpenVMS operating system license
- supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Compaq BridgeWorks
- GUI-based tool that will automatically generate the code needed to expose
existing 3GL business logic through standard component technology
|
- Enables the easy componentization of VMS 3GL business routines as COM objects
- The componentization of existing heritage applications allows customers to
integrate web based front ends and/or new object oriented clients with these
programs, linking existing business logic with new technology
- Licensed with OpenVMS
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Compaq ECP Data Collect and ECP Performance Analyzer
- ECP Data Collect is a highly efficient, detailed performance data collector
- ECP Performance Analyzer provides graphic historical reporting of OpenVMS performance parameters
|
- Robust data collection set, it collects over 250 VMS performance parameters)
- Flexible: data collection can be tuned down to sub-second sampling rate
- Low overhead: has less than 1.5% impact on CPU
- Licensed with OpenVMS V6.2 to V7.3
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
- The Performance Analyzer is a native OpenVMS product running under a GUI Motif
- Views performance data in graphical format
- Analyzed data includes CPU, Memory and I/O
- Allows the user to select sampling rate
- Licensed with OpenVMS V6.2 to V7.3
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
| Optional Software
|
|
| NEW FEATURE
|
NEW FEATURE BENEFIT
|
Compaq DECram for OpenVMS V3.0 (Galaxy RAMdisk)
- Adds capability to use Galaxy shared memory to create a VMS shared memory disk
- New user interface
|
- Allows customers to take advantage of Galaxy shared memory with no modifications to any of their applications
- Enables all instances in a Galaxy configuration to access the memory disk
- Faster access for data in shared disk environment
- New user interface simplifies management of memory disk
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
OpenVMS Cluster Software
Enhancements to clustering for OpenVMS Version 7.3 include:
- Switched LAN devices as full cluster interconnects
- Fibre Channel Tape Performance enhancements
- Lock Manager Performance enhancements
|
- Improved availability due to long-distance cluster and storage
interconnects, and the ability to distribute the load over multiple, redundant
paths
- Improved performance due to program improvements and better SMP utilization for storage and cluster functions
- Software distributed on the OpenVMS operating system CD-ROM
- Licensed separately from the OpenVMS operating system
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Compaq Galaxy Software Architecture
- Supported on AlphaServer GS80/160/320 systems
- RAMdisk on shared memory with Compaq DECram for OpenVMS V3.0
|
- Supports up to eight instances of OpenVMS in a single computer
- Provides support for OpenVMS Galaxy instances in hard partitions
- Licensed separately from the OpenVMS operating system
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
Compaq Volume Shadowing
Enhancements to Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS (Alpha) Version 7.3 include:
- Shadow Minicopy feature
- Disaster tolerant support for Fibre Channel configurations
|
- Enhancements to Volume Shadowing (Alpha) improve performance over disaster
tolerant configurations by utilizing the speed of the Fibre Channel inter-site
connection and by reducing shadow copy times by writing only the changes that
have been made to the shadow set
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
TCP/IP Services V5.1 for OpenVMS
Provides the following new features:
- NFS V3 Server enhancements
- Support for large files, improved performance and increased scalability
- NFS file locking
- DHCP dynamic updates to DNS
- IPV6 support
- Anti Spam
- Prevents the use of the SMTP server as a SPAM source
|
- Provides interoperability and resource sharing among systems running
OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows NT, and other operating systems that support
TCP/IP
- Provides a comprehensive suite of functions and applications that support
industry-standard protocols for heterogeneous network communications and
resource sharing
- Licensed separately from the OpenVMS operating system
- Software distributed on the OpenVMS operating system CD-ROM and on
the quarterly Software Product Libraries for OpenVMS CD-ROM
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
Advanced Server V7.3 for OpenVMSAlpha V7.2 and V7.3
Provides the following new features:
- Member Server
- Windows 2000 interoperability
- Alias file names support
- Extended Character Set
- NT Print Management Support (SpoolSS)
- DNS Load Balancing
- DNS Name Resolution on OpenVMS Alpha
|
- Implements networking functions that are compatible with Windows NT Server
- Provides reliable file, print and LAN services to Windows 2000, Windows NT,
Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows for Workgroups PCs
- Provides Windows users with seamless access to OpenVMS files and
printers through Windows software without modification
- Provides a seamless upgrade to Advanced Server from a PATHWORKS for OpenVMS environment
- Allows operators and administrators to use native Windows administration
utilities to administer Advanced Server users, disks, and printer shares from a
client or server
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha
|
DECnet-Plus for OpenVMS V7.3
- DECnet-Plus is the primary version of DECnet on OpenVMS V7.3
|
- Provides full support for DECnet Phase IV applications and protocols (NSP),
OSI applications and protocols, and DECnet over TCP/IP
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
| DECnet Phase IV for OpenVMS V7.3
|
- DECnet Phase IV ships with OpenVMS and is supported through a Prior Version Support contract
- Supported on OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX
|
