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Express 5 could help
you link 3000s in new ways
Something to watch for and ask for will be
the Express 5 release of MPE/iX, expected to ship sometime later
this summer. It’s
going to have a patch for making Telnet/iX
perform reliably, something
that the connectivity protocol doesn’t
do even if you applied
this spring’s PowerPatch 4 version of
MPE/iX 5.5. The latest telnet
patch PTDEDY2A fixes a problem that hangs
sessions when you have
an inetd running in a job in the CS queue
(that is, with the same
priority as sessions). Users report of
sessions hanging, meaning
the keyboard freezes and nothing can reset
the session short of
aborting it. The patch didn’t make it
onto PowerPatch 4 and wasn’t
even finished when Express 3 shipped. It
also has its dependencies
– NSTEDW4 and MPEJXN9. That’s a
good reason to look for it in
the Express 5 release, where all the little
patches are rounded
up like so many stray pups. If you’re
going to begin using Telnet/iX
to try and cut some of NS/VT’s
overhead, look for the patch so
you can avoid the calls from your users.
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