The following enhancements were applied to the standard SHIP25 distribution beginning in early 1996. These enhancements, along with all of our existing APARs (PFT's) are available on our standard CUME distribution. All references to SHIP25 also include support for SHIP25 Mod 1 and Mod 2 unless otherwise noted. Please feel free to contact Comm-Pro should you have additional questions or wish to order the CUME maintenance update. These items can also be located in the SHIP25 APAR Summary for the specific year that the enhancement was included.
Items are listed by date in Descending order.
07-01-2000
Release: SHIP25 Mod 2 only
Subject: NCP V7R8
Support for NCP Version 7 Release 8 is now included in our standard SHIP25 Mod 2 release. This also includes support for EP Version 1 Release 14 in a PEP environment. SSP V4R8 is required for NCP V7R8.
The EP Version 1 Release 14 stand alone product is currently ON HOLD.
03-23-1999
Release: SHIP25 Mod 2 only
Subject: NCP V7R7
Support for NCP Version 7 Release 7 is now included in our standard SHIP25 Mod 2 release. This also includes support for EP Version 1 Release 14 in a PEP environment. SSP V4R7 is required for NCP V7R7.
The EP Version 1 Release 14 stand alone product is currently ON HOLD.
03-05-1998
Release: SHIP25 Mod 2 only
Subject: NCP V7R6
Support for NCP Version 7 Release 6 is now included in our standard SHIP25 Mod 2 release.
01-05-1998
Release: SHIP25 - All Mods
Product: DSP/NEO Support
Feature: Enhancements were made to our ACTLU Request and Response logic that reduces the overhead encountered during 37mm IPL (Load) and VTAM resource activation.
10-07-1997
Release: SHIP25 - All Mods (MVS and VSE)
Subject: Unique JOBCARD Support for MVS and VSE
We now provide users the ability to define unique jobcard JCL for the Comm-Pro Stage 1 - 4 generation process.
05-01-1997
Release: SHIP25 (all Mods)
Subject: DAT Tape Media Distribution Support
We can now distribute our products on DAT (4mm) tapes although 3480 (NOCOMP/NOIDRC) cart tapes are the standard default media for our product distribution..
07-29-1996
Release: SHIP25 Mod 2 only
Subject: NCP V7R4 and V7R5
Support for NCP Version 7 Release 4 and Version Release 5 included in SHIP25 Mod 2 support.
06-17-1996
Release: SHIP25 (All Mods)
Subject: Miscellaneous enhancements applied to our standard distribution
1) X.25 BUFFER HIGH MEMORY SUPPORT -
Enhancements for 3745 environments (NCP V5R4 and above) that will allow the Comm-Pro X.25 Receive and Transmit buffer pools to reside above the previously restricted 4MB boundary. (Sysgen buffer creation logic was also redesigned to punch 1 output record per buffer pool instead of several records per buffer).
This enhancement will better utilize available memory for 3745 FEP(s) and allow larger configurations, especially those that require fixed, non-contention resource definitions such as DSP/NCP.
2) RRT HIGH MEMORY SUPPORT -
Enhancements for 3745 environments (NCP V5R4 and above) that will allow the Resource Resolution Table ($RRT) to reside above the previously restricted 4MB boundary. (An image of the $RRT is copied into the load module for use by our DBNN console command). This enhancement provides the same benefits as item 1.
3) VIRTUAL ROUTE ALARM ACTIVITY COUNTER -
Enhancement to count NAS Virtual Route Hold and Release alarms. Logic will count VR Held and Release conditions and display the current counts in the ANS WTO alarm. Counts are also available in a local history counter.
This enhancement is a diagnostic aid that will provide valuable virtual route activity data. Excessive counter activity may reveal that the virtual route pacing window size is set too low.
4) CONSOLE ALARM SUPPORT -
Bypass 'WTO OVERRUN, ALARMS LOST' message. Enhancement to count WTO buffer allocation failures in the hour byte position of the last ready WTO buffer (number of missed messages displays when the hour value is >= 25 decimal). Incrementing stops when count reaches 99. Overrun WTO message is no longer displayed. The alarm delivery interval was changed from 3 seconds to 1 second.
This enhancement will prevent the continual display of 'ALARMS LOST' messages when more alarms are being generated than can be buffered or delivered to the console device.
5) INVITATION-TO-CLEAR (ITC) TIMER SUPPORT -
Enhancements to our logical channel timer code that will start a "data" timer (Internal INACTO=120) in the absence of any other timer when a disconnect request is issued by the host for a logical channel that has a connection (P4D1-DATA TRANSFER FLOW CONTROL READY). When time-out expires before a CLEAR request is received, the timer will check for ITC state and clear the call without waiting for a CLEAR from the network. The 2 minute time-out is more than adequate for X.25 networks that support ITC and short enough for those that don't.
This enhancement is to prevent hung/unavailable resources that can occur when the network or remote TPAD fails to respond to our ITC with a CLEAR.
02-19-1996
Release: SHIP25 Mod 2 only
Product: EPMPX (BX25) - March Project
Feature: BX25 RESTART Request Trace Support (Activation/Deactivation) of physical X.25 link(s).
Logic added to trace all RESTART requests so that Comm-Pro customer support technicians can expeditiously identify over which UTS host a BX25 LINK RESTART (Activation or Deactivation) was requested. A simple review of history entries logged can identify the host domain (CA#/SUBCH) that requested which physical X.25 link (NETID) is to be activated. A BX25 RESTART Request Trace entry will be generated in the EP trace table each time a BX25 RESTART request is received from the host application. There are no Comm-Pro console commands required to start the trace. You will need to issue the 'DTRC' command to display the history trace entries. Please refer to the Comm-Pro console subsystem 'DTRC' display EP trace table command for additional information.
Last Update - August 16, 2000