| Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Release Notes for AIX Platforms |    
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| Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Release Notes for AIX Platforms |
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Installation and Migration Issues |
This chapter contains information about installing Sun MTP Release 8.0.1 and migration issues you might encounter. It contains the following topics:
Sun MTP Release 8.0.1 has been qualified to run on the AIX 5.2 operating system.
If you are also using Sun Mainframe Batch Manager software (Sun MBM), you must use Sun MBM Release 10.0.1.
The Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Installation Guide provides the instructions for installing Sun MTP, as well as information you need if you are upgrading from an earlier release.
To run the Sun MTP software on the AIX operating system, your environment must meet the following requirements.
Your IBM hardware system must be at minimum a PowerPC 4, Model 520 with two CPUs. Your system must have at least 512 megabytes (Mbytes) of memory and .5 gigabtyes (Gbytes) of disk storage available for the Sun MTP product.
The following mainframe rehosting components have been qualified with Sun MTP 8.0.1 on AIX platforms:
This release of Sun MTP on the AIX operating system has been qualified with the following third-party products:
The following features and components are not supported on AIX in Release 8.0.1:
application programs
The documentation set shipped with this release contains information that does not apply to AIX platforms. Some of this information relates to products or functionality that is not supported on the AIX platform. Other information is specific to the use of the product on Solaris platforms.
These release notes contain general information that applies to all platforms on which the Sun MTP software operates. It also contains information that is applicable only to AIX environments. Therefore, refer to this document if you are in doubt about whether a feature operates the same on Solaris and AIX platforms.
Because the Sun MTP package for AIX platforms is distributed as a tar file, the installation procedure for AIX differs from the procedure in the Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Installation Guide, which is for Solaris platforms. Use the UNIX tar command to install Sun MTP on AIX platforms.
Sun MTP is now licensed by CPU, rather than by the number of users.
When the term user is used in the documentation, it typically means a session. A single person who is a user could have multiple sessions.
Although licensing is now by CPU, you must still specify a value in the Maximum Number of Users field in the VCT. Because each user consumes Sun MTP session resources, set this field based on your region's requirements for terminals, printers, and intersystem communications (ISC) sessions.
To create the license file for the Sun MTP product, follow the instructions in the software enabling key letter that you receive from Sun Microsystems, Inc. Make sure to put the license file in the directory pointed to by the KIXLICDIR environment variable.
Do not follow the license file instructions in the Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Installation Guide, because they apply only to Solaris platforms.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release, you must convert the VSAM catalog and the Sun MTP tables. The kixcnvtcat80 utility is used to convert the catalog, and the kixcnvtbl80 utility is used to convert the tables. Refer to the Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Reference Guide for detailed descriptions.
Read the chapter on migration in the Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing Software Installation Guide, and make sure to perform the tasks on the migration checklist.
This section contains information about changes to the software that might require you to recompile maps or programs, or make changes to custom scripts.
Previously, the kixbms utility did not correctly handle maps containing the OUTLINE or SOSI extended attributes. Therefore, if your maps contain OUTLINE or SOSI extended attributes, you must recompile the maps with the kixbms utility.
In previous releases of Sun MTP, the kixstop command did not properly adhere to the normal shutdown and immediate (panic) shutdown process. Now, any command used to shut down the region normally (kixstop, CEMT PERFORM SHUT, and PF3 on the Development System main menu) will wait for all transactions to complete before bringing down the region. If there is a long-running transaction or a conversational transaction, the region waits until these transactions are finished. At this point, the only way to shut down the region is to execute the kixclean command.
If you want the old functionality of either kixstop (which forced the region to stop by aborting running transactions), CEMT PERFORM SHUT, or PF3 (where these commands immediately shut down the region), you must use one of the following commands:
As a result of this change, the following sections in the documentation are no longer accurate:
If you are upgrading from an earlier release, you must recompile all C language programs that use the EXEC CICS INQUIRE TDQUEUE command.
In previous releases of the Sun MTP software, an ABORT.prt file would be created if a region terminated abnormally. Now, if a region crashes, the unikixmain process automatically executes the kixsnap command, which gathers trace and dump information. All the information that was written to the ABORT.prt file is now written to the snapshot files, and the ABORT.prt file is no longer created. As a result of this software change, the following error message changed:
Old: KIX0157F Writing abort dump to $KIXSYS/ABORT.prt
New: KIX0157I Executing %s command
Check the SunSolveSM web site on a regular basis for any Sun MTP patches that are available, and apply the recommended patches. The web site is:
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