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June 12, 2015

Find hardware specs, move DTCs, and more

Is there a command or way to see the hardware specs of a HP 3000 via MPE or its installed utilities? This machine has no other utilities, like MPEX. I am looking to document the processors, memory, number of hard drives, and size of those drives. 

Jack Connor replies

Depending on MPE/iX version, you can use SYSDIAG for 6.0 and older or CSTM for 6.5 and later. In SYSDIAG, type SYSMAP, then IOMAP, and GENERAL for the IO components, then exit and go to CPUMAP for the CPU info.

In CSTM, type MAP, then SELECT ALL, then INFO, then IL (InfoLog) to get a listing of everything that MPE owns.

I don't work that much with COBOL these days, but I wanted to compile a  program and I got an error message,"size of data segment greater than 1 gig or 64 bytes" How do I get around this?

Steve Cooper replies

That means that the total space you asked for in your Working Storage Section is more than 1 GB.  Now, there are ways to work around that, but my guess is that you don't need to work around that.  My guess is there is a typo or some other unintended problem, where you are asking for way more storage than you intended. Check your OCCURS clauses and PICs to make sure you mean what they say.

We have to move a DTC into our network. Along the way there are Procurve switches and a Cisco router or two. I know that somehow the switches and routers must be configured so as to allow multicasting on addresses 09-00-09-xx-xx-xx to be forwarded and not filtered, but our Procurve administrators aren't quite sure they know how exactly how to do this. What is Procurve-ese for configuring what's necessary to allow remote DTC operation across our network?

Jeff Kell replied

You don't have to do anything at layer-2.  The layer-3 will have to bridge the traffic.  If the layer-3's are Cisco, you can specify the traffic to bridge, in which case you just want the [08|09]-00-09-x-x-x traffic.

The 09-00-09 is multicast used for discovery, but beyond that, you're going to get some directed layer-2 08-00-09 as well.  You will need to include your HP's DTSLINK NIC MAC prefix as well if it is a later model that does not have the old HP 08-00-09 prefix.

If you own the whole infrastructure path, what we used to do is run L2 trunks between sites, and propagate a common vlan for the DTC/HP traffic, while routing everything else.

Or if the Ciscos are real routers rather than Catalyst-style switches, you can run a L2TP tunnel end-to-end to propagate the HP vlan across the routed hops.

I need to rebuild an environment from one HP 3000 system to another. Trouble is, we want to have groups from the same account end up on different user volumes. Is there a way to do this using BULDACCT? 

Keven Miller replies

BULDACCT was made for processing complete accounts. Do BULDACCT  CHC%VSACCT=MEDADV_1. Then edit BULDJOB1 for the other group, changing MEDADV_1 to _2

Mark Ranft adds 

What I usually do is use BULDACCT to move the entire accounting structure. Then I surgically PURGEGROUP and NEWGROUP (with the appropriate HOMEVS= and ONVS= options, plus CAP= and ACCESS= etc) to duplicate the special groups.

I'm having trouble locating TurboIMAGE limits. What's the max number of items in a dataset?

Paul Edwards replies

From HP’s website: 

The objective of this TurboIMAGE enhancement is to raise the limits on number of items, sets and master paths in a TurboIMAGE database to these values: 

Number of items: 1200
Number of sets per database: 240
Number of paths for master : 64

All new databases created will have the benefit of increased limits. The new limits will not be applicable for old databases created under previous versions of TurboIMAGE. However, these databases will continue to function with the old limits and applications will be compatible.

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