Siemens BS2000/OSD Technical Information

Fujitsu Siemens Computers BS2OSD(BS2000/OSD) *2 Version 6.0B *7 April 2008 Release Notice Copyright

Page 9 The documentation is available as online manuals under http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com or can be ordered in printed form at extra cost unde

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 followin

Page 11 2.5 Functional extensions for SM pubsets The new SMPGEN MODIFY-SYSTEM-MANAGED-PUBSET statement can be used to extend existing system manage

Page 12 2.8 Reorganizing open files Previously, it was only possible to reorganize closed files in pubsets or volumes with SPACEOPT. As of SPACEOP

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 s

Page 14 2.12 Four character mnemonic name for tape devices A four character hexadecimal device mnemonic (1000 – FFFF) is now also allowed for tape

Page 15 *2 For SF and SM Pubsets, the maximum catalog file size will be *2 increased to 32008 4K blocks, representing a 98% enlargement. *2

Page 16 2.14.2 Self-configuring NK-ISAM Pools in Data Spaces *2 To further relieve the system address area, NK-ISAM files are *2 buffered in

Page 172.15 New functions of BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 1/2006 2.15.1 JENV V5.0 *3 BS2000/OSD with the JENV V5.0 component has

Page 18 2.16 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 2/2006 2.16.1 Autonomous, dynamic control of I/O resources (IORM) *4 T

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 Adap

Page 19 *4 Dynamic I/O load distribution for disks on the FC channel of *4 the S server (DPAV) *4 Only one I/O can be executed at any parti

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,

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

Page 222.17 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

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

Page 242.17.3 Improved SAN support (SANCHECK function) *5 Since the introduction of the fibre channel, the FC connection *5 technology SAN

Page 25 *5 The following tuning parameters can be modified dynamically: *5 FORCEDTERM Forces termination of the subsystem. *5 HDSTNI

Page 262.18 New functions in BS2000/OSD V6.0B with Correction Package 2/2007 *6 BS2000/OSD V6.0B correction level B72 does not contain function

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-

Page 28 2.20.4 NTP/BS2 TimeServer with highest priority The time server NTP (NETWORK-TIME-PROTOCOL) is the server with the highest priority in BS20

Page 23.4 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 In

Page 29 2.20.9 Catalog expansion commands *2 ADD-CATALOG-FILE *2 With this command up to 100 special catalogs can be created for *2 SM Pu

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 ext

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/OS

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 Serv

Page 33 Innovations in IMON V2.8: The new CHECK-UNITS function allows you to check that the system is complete, correct and up to date. For custome

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 no

Page 35 For availability reasons, you are strongly advised not to perform an update installation on the active home pubset! Certain hardware require

Page 36 BCAM memory values: The values for the maximum size of the resident and paging memory for data transfers are calculated by BCAM at startup fr

Page 37 The following class 2 system parameters have been discontinued: - CCPUNORM - DELLOGLN The following class 2 system parameters have been cha

Page 38 New commands: The percentage of main memory used for big pages can be changed with the new command MODIFY-MEMORY-PARAMETERS. The command SHOW

Page 31 General This Release Notice is a summary of the major extensions, de-pendencies and operating information with respect to the deliv-ery c

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 gl

Page 40 3.7 Restrictions - Processing encrypted files Encrypted files cannot be accessed in BS2000/OSD < V6.0, they can only be displayed and de

Page 41 Document types The following documents will be needed, depending on the situa-tion: - SLED (following a system crash) - SNAPFILE - SYSTEMDU

Page 42For BCAM problems: - activate all DCM traces with /DCDIAG DCM.,MODE=SAVE and after reproducing the error, save the generated trace files S

Page 434 Hardware support 4.1 Central units 4.1.1 changed support The following business servers are supported in BS2000/OSD-BC V6.0. A prerequ

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 supporte

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 c

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 Pri

Page 4 *7 SYSFGM.PERL.058.E SYSFGM.PLAM.034.e SYSFGM.POSIX-BC.060.E SYSFGM.PTHREADS.010.E SYSFGM.SDF.046.E *1 SYSFGM.SIR.150.E SYSFGM.SNM

Page 5 *2 BS2CP 15.0B *2 BS2000-EXEC 15.0B BUILDER 1.0A C-TPR-LZS 2.3A CALENDAR 15.0A CALENDAR-TU 15.0A CAPRI 1.5A *2 C

Page 6 *2 SMPGEN-S 15.0B Utility program *2 SMPGEN-U 15.0B *2 SPCCNTRL 15.0B Utility program *5 STATUS 15.1B *2 SRPMNU

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.

Page 8 The documentation for the remaining technical delivery units is listed in the respective Release Notices. Core documentation TITLE