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Home > Advocacy > Survey > MPE SIB 2002 READ ONLY

2002 MPE System Improvement Ballot

INSTRUCTIONS:

You have votes available to cast in the ballot.

If there is a single enhancement suggestion you feel merits votes, you may cast all of your votes for that one item; or, you may distribute your votes in any other manner you desire. You may also use them to vote against a suggested enhancement by casting a (clearly marked) negative vote. If you do decide to cast a negative vote, please remember the sum of the absolute value of all of your votes may not exceed .

Note: Each ballot item contains a link with a more detailed description of the item and a bulletin board where you can post questions or comments about the item. You can get to this area by clicking on the "details" in the description area below for each item. To ask a question about this issue or post a comment, click on the "enhance an issue button" in the details section for each ballot item.

Each ballot item contains the following components:

Vote: Cast your votes in this box
Description: Brief description of the item that is linked to a more detailed description and discussion area if you click on the "details" link.
Benefit: The benefit to users if the item is implemented
SIG: Special Interest Group that is sponsoring the item
Contact: Person you may contact if you have questions about the item
Effort: Level of effort required to implement the item (estimated by CSY R&D team)

WHOLE NUMBERS ONLY, NO DECIMALS!

1.	Description: Identify a way for users and developers to continue to run MPE in some supported fashion after end of HP sales and support, and ask CSY to facilitate that outcome. Details
	Benefit: The goal is to develop a plan that would address the needs of those customers who do not want to migrate, who can not migrate, or who need more time to migrate.

2.	Description: Continued efforts in the Posix smoothing area (exact items to be determined from a general call for proposals). Details
	Benefit: This would benefit those customers trying to migrate to HP-UX or Linux by allowing them to do a staged migration first to the Posix environment on MPE and then to HP-UX or Linux. It would also facilitate a less formal feasibility study of migrating software to HP-UX or Linux.
	SIG MPE	Contact John Burke [email protected]	Effort unknown

3.	Description: Enhance MPE to handle the largest disk drives expected to be available during the HP support life. This could be an implementation of direct support for large physical drives or the disk partitioning proposal that was the number one vote getter on the 2001 SIGMPE ballot. CSY will work with John Burke on the wording of this item to add the current limitation in the description. Details
	Benefit: This will enable customers to purchase current storage hardware through the HP support life of MPE.
	SIG MPE	Contact John Burke [email protected]	Effort unknown

4.	Description: Create a CI interface for user-created functions that can be used to extend CI scripting. Also create a way for UDCs and command files to act like functions and explicitly return a value. Details
	Benefit: Makes the CI extensible. Note that this functionality could be used to implement global user-writeable CI variables, a very highly ranked item on the last SIB.
	SIG MPE	Contact John Burke [email protected]	Effort high

5.	Description: Integrating SysLogD and system/console logging. Details
	Benefit: allows better management of MPE systems in a Unix/Linux world.
	SIG SYSMAN	Contact Donna Garveick [email protected]	Effort medium

6.	Description: Allow OP and SM (NM?) users to kill or reload INETD. Currently, INETD is hardcoded to only allow Manager.Sys to kill/reload INETD. Details
	Benefit: provides greater system management flexibility.
	SIG SYSMAN	Contact Donna Garveick [email protected]	Effort low

7.	Description: Upgrade Rapid with the following enhancements: Details
	SIG RAPID	Contact Rich Trapp [email protected]	Effort unknown

8.	Description: Enable Samba/iX to authenticate a user's connection request via standard Microsoft encrypted password mechanism's as implemented by Microsoft Windows OS's. Details
	Benefit: As delivered, all MS OS's since Windows 95 OSR2 by default do not permit clear-text password authentication to a SMB server. Although an entry in the systems registry can be made to re-enable this behavior, it is against the standard security policies of many institutions and corporations to do so. Enabling this ability will allow a greater number of users to take advantage of Samba/iX and decrease the complexity required for its use among the various SMB client systems. Update 12-2001 This item was voted high in the 2001 overall SIB, but CSY was not able to complete it this year. They will still consider implementing it if it is again voted high in the SIGWeb and subsequently the overall SIB. Until then, the encrypted password functionality is available in 2.0.10 as unsupported freeware from either http://www.sambaix.com or http://www.editcorp.com/Personal/Lars_Appel/samba/.
	SIG WEB	Contact Michael L. Gueterman [email protected]	Effort low

9.	Description: Create an exhaustive porting techniques white paper. Details
	Benefit: To provide individuals with the knowledge required to port new Internet technologies to the e3000 platform after HP stops doing so in November 2003.
	SIG WEB	Contact Mark Bixby [email protected]	Effort unknown

10.	Description: Better DBUPDATE performance for IMAGE Sort Fields with CIUPDATE Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort low

11.	Description: Ability to set max IMAGE chain lengths, with unique key option. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

12.	Description: Allow >16 paths to a DETAIL dataset (> 16 to MASTER already) Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

13.	Description: Increase IMAGE DBOPEN concurrency. Much less delay, if launch many instances of one app. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

14.	Description: Add new DBINFO modes (probably '5xx') to return all root file flag settings. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort low

15.	Description: Allow single IMAGE character field to be as large as the 2378-Word maximum entry length. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort unknown

16.	Description: DBSCHEMA: Update so it can be single tool to CREATE IMAGE database. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

17.	Description: Make TURBOSTORE DBQUIESCE intrinsic user-callable; & provide external documentation. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

18.	Description: Allow default values for FIELDs not specified at DBPUT time. Details
	SIG IMAGE/SQL	Contact Ken Sletten [email protected]	Effort medium

19.	Description: Port MPE and it's subsystems to Intel or create an MPE emulator for Linux. In the alternative, enable a third party to do so. Details
	SIG MIGRATE	Contact Adam Dorrite [email protected]	Effort unknown

20.	Description: Port the full VPLUS subsystem including forms caching to both HP-UX and Linux. Details
	Benefit: This will allow existing code to be (more easily) converted to an alternate environment while still maintaining some semblance of speed.
	SIG MIGRATE	Contact Adam Dorrite [email protected]	Effort unknown

21.	Description: CSY to perform a detailed analysis of HP Eloquence to determine the differences between it and Image/SQL. Produce a white paper detailing that comparison and to determine whether or not HP Eloquence can replace Image/SQL in mission critical applications. Details
	SIG MIGRATE	Contact Adam Dorrite [email protected]	Effort unknown

22.	Description: Port Image/SQL with all supporting subsystems in order to provide an environment for mission-critical ported applications. Details
	SIG MIGRATE	Contact Adam Dorrite [email protected]	Effort unknown

23.	Description: Either port the CI environment to HP-UX/Linux as a shell or provide a translation tool that will convert existing JCL, UDCs, and command files into UNIX shell scripts. Details
	SIG MIGRATE	Contact Adam Dorrite [email protected]	Effort unknown

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