Preface

The ALLBASE/NET User's Guide describes ALLBASE/NET, a product that allows an application on one MPE/iX or HP-UX system to access an ALLBASE/SQL DBEnvironment on another MPE/iX system or HP-UX system. This manual is written for the system administrator who is using ALLBASE/NET on an HP-UX system. He or she uses this guide to understand how ALLBASE/NET works and to learn how to use the NETUtil utility to maintain necessary files. In addition, portions of this guide will be of interest to application programmers and to users of ALLBASE/SQL DBEnvironments, particularly chapters 1, 3, and 4.

In some HP documentation and in talking with HP 3000 users, you will encounter references to MPE XL, the direct predecessor of MPE/iX. MPE/iX is a superset of MPE XL. All programs written for MPE XL will run without change under MPE/iX. You can continue to use MPE XL system documentation, although it may not refer to features added to the operating system to support POSIX (for example, hierarchical directories). This guide is divided as follows: