What is New in the Initial 11i v1 Release?

Hard partitions supported on HP Superdome 16-way, 32-way, and 64-way.

Partition manager, a new system administration tool, supports the initial and ongoing configuration of systems that support hard partitions.

Lockable pages that experience repeated single-bit memory errors can now be removed.

The Guardian Service Processor (GSP), a new console subsystem, now available.

Graphics and Technical Computing Software supported on all PA-RISC workstations and servers.

Kernel parameters for CAE and EE Engineering workstation kernels optimized during installation or update.

The HP-UX operating system is now delivered as part of an HP-UX Operating Environment (OE), an integrated software solution comprised of the operating system and selected applications.

The Foundation HP-UX 11i v1 OE, the standard Internet server environment for HP-UX systems, includes Java, the HP Apache-based Web Server, Netscape Communicator, and other applications.

In addition to the Foundation HP-UX 11i v1 OE, the HP-UX 11i v1 Enterprise OE contains applications to enable an enterprise-level server. Applications include OnLineJFS 3.3, GlancePlus, MirrorDisk/UX, and others.

The HP-UX 11i v1 Mission Critical OE contains both the HP-UX 11i v1 Foundation OE and the HP-UX 11i v1 Enterprise OE, as well as applications (such as MC/ServiceGuard and HP-UX Workload Manager) to enable a mission-critical server.

The HP-UX 11i v1 Technical Computing OE contains applications to enable a technical workstation or technical server.

Online Addition and Replacement (OLAR) enables the adding and replacing of PCI I/O cards (adapters) while a system is running.

By eliminating driver installation and combining multiple drivers into one, the set-up or upgrade of networking and I/O products has been made easier.

Gigabit Ethernet (PCI, HSC) provides the means for interfacing to a 1000Base-SX multimode fiber network.

Although EISA interface cards are supported on the HP-UX 11i v1 32-bit operating system, they are not supported on HP-UX 11i v1 64-bit operation.

HSC FDDI driver enhanced.

Cold install changed to support new media and the new Operating Environments.

Ignite-UX version B requires at least 64MB of RAM and no longer supports 10.01 and 10.10 machines for 11i v1.

Update-UX command replaces swgettools to perform OS updates and add Operating Environments.

Software Distributor changed in multiple ways, including enablement of multiple target management capability and POSIX enhancements.

SD Patch Installation changed to provide more control over patch management.

System Administration Manager (SAM) enhanced to support new devices and features.

HP Distributed Print Service deprecated.

Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors enabled to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products.

The command ioscan improved to provide clearer descriptions for most common PCI devices.

Gang scheduling for MPI applications and multi-threaded processes enabled.

CMA threads deprecated and kernel threads implemented.

Amount of private data space available increased.

The creation of unique memory windows for shared objects now allowed for 32-bit processes.

Dynamic tunables enabled.

System-V IPC message queue enhanced.

System-V IPC kernel tunable configuration parameter SEMMSL now a dynamic kernel tunable.

SCSI Queue depth management enhanced.

Striping and mirroring for shared volume groups enabled.

Journaled File System (JFS) upgraded to version 3.3.

Network File System (NFS) now supported over TCP/IP in addition to running over User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

Also added to NSF are loopback transport support, user-space threads, and enhancements to NFS server-side performance.

New daemon, AutoFS, mounts and unmounts NFS file systems automatically with more reliability than automount.

HP Fibrechannel High Availability Disk and Closure added.

New version of sendmail, sendmail-8.9.3, included.

New version of BIND, BIND 8.1.2, included.

The rexecd and remshd services now use Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for authentication.

Dynamic Host Protocol (DHCP) enabled to perform updates to DDNS.

Network Transport (including ifconfig, ndd, nestat, virtual IP (VIP) address, setsockopt, T_OPTMGMT) enhanced.

New version of FTPD enhanced with new features.

STREAMS/UX enhanced.

Low Bandwidth X Extension (LBX) improves performance on wide-area networks and on slower speed connections.

Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS API) introduced to provide security independent of underlying security mechanisms and communication protocols.

Program stacks can now be execute-protected to guard against buffer overflow attacks.

New, convenient way to customize security features enabled.

Password history enabled to discourage users from re-using previous passwords.

Kerberos Client Software now provided to enable integrating HP-UX into a secure enterprise environment.

HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) aids in transitioning software to 32-bit or 64-bit versions of HP-UX 11i v1.

New ANSI-compliant Standard C++ library included.

System library libc enhanced, including performance improvements to ftw(), nftw(), and malloc().

The libcres.a library, a small archive library, added to provide customers running performance-critical applications with the benefit of a static link.

Linker and Object File Tools enhanced.

The linker/dld interface enhanced.

HP Distributed Computing Environment (HP DCE/9000) version 1.8 provides framework to develop, administer, and use distributed applications.

Extensions to pstat() system call enables system management and measurement tools to eliminate dependency on the /dev/kmem pseudo-driver.

New parameters for confstr() defined.

Improved interoperability enabled through system level support provided for the Unicode 2.1/ISO-10646 character set.

Improved interoperability enabled through corrected character converter mappings.

Enhancements provided to allow Euro display, input, and processing capabilities.

Asian enhancements provided, including new Asian code sets, UDC (User Defined Characters, or Gaiji), printing, and code set conversions with mainframe code sets.

Enhancements provided to the printer capabilities of Japanese System Environment; Korean System Environment; Simplified-Chinese System Environment; Traditional-Chinese System Environment.

New set of multibyte APIs added to libc to follow C99 (ISO/IEC 9899:1999) and Unix98 specifications.