What is New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

Enhancements to IO Forwarding: The IO forwarding interrupt comes under the purview of Detect & Strobe and is enhanced. (See “Enhancements to IO Forwarding”.)

New: estape Tape and eschgr Autochanger Drivers: New with HP-UX 11i v3. ssrfc driver no longer available. (See “estape Tape and eschgr Autochanger Drivers”.)

HP-UX 11i v3 Driver Development Kit (DDK): Enhanced for HP-UX 11i v3. Provides documentation, sample code, build environment and development tools for 3rd-party developers, ISVs and IHVs to develop and test drivers on HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC and Itanium®-based platforms. (See “HP-UX 11i v3 Driver Development Kit”.)

Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA): There is an issue with LUN WWIDs and HP-UX 11i v3. (See “Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) on HP-UX 11i v3”.)

HP StorageWorks Secure Path: Obsolete. (See “HP StorageWorks Secure Path Migration from HP-UX 11i v1 and 11i v2 and Obsolescence for HP-UX 11i v3”.)

I/O Subsystem: Several new I/O commands help manage the I/O subsystem, and existing commands have new options and functionality to support the next generation mass storage stack. (See “I/O Subsystem”.)

New: The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack manages I/O devices, such as SCSI logical units (LUNs). In this release, the mass storage stack delivers functionality designed to enhance server scalability, adaptability, and performance while retaining backward compatibility. New features include agile addressing, native multi-pathing, and increased parallelization. (See “Mass Storage Stack”.)

“Networking and Mass Storage Drivers”

New: PCI Error Recovery: Provides the ability to detect, isolate, and automatically recover from a PCI error, avoiding a system crash. (See “PCI Error Recovery”.)

New: PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD): The PCI OL* feature has been enhanced to allow HP-UX 11i v3 administrators to delete PCI cards and their associated drivers online without requiring a system reboot. (See “PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD)”.)

“Utility Pricing Solutions”

Xserver: The Xserver’s configuration tool is available via the HP SMH interface. (See “Xserver”.)

asyncdsk Driver Kernel Tunable max_async_ports: max_async_ports is now a dynamic tunable; default value changed to 4096 and maximum value is 4194304. (See “asyncdsk Driver Kernel Tunable max_async_ports”.)

New: Concurrent Dump: You can now configure your machine to perform a distributed parallel dump, thereby improving the dump throughput and reducing dump time. (See “Concurrent Dump”.)

Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules. (See “Daylight Savings Time Changes for US in 2007 (Note)”

Detect and Strobe: Disabled when any system configuration altering activity is in progress. Functionality enabled by default (value set at 80%). (See “Detect and Strobe”.)

Disks and File Systems ( fsweb): Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI) and text user interface (TUI) for File System and Disks system administration tasks. (See “Disks and File Systems (fsweb)”.)

New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Includes an interface expansion, providing long username and long hostnames. (See “Distributed Systems Administration Utilities”.)

New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes. (See “Enhanced User Core File Naming”.)

Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for CIFS, Tomcat, Apache, Oracle 10g, and more. (See “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version”.)

New: Event Manager: A comprehensive mechanism for posting, distributing, storing, and reviewing event information. Composed of a kernel component, user libraries (libevm.so) and a set of commands. (See “Event Manager”.)

Event Monitoring Service: Now enhanced to send WBEM indications, which can be viewed from the EVWEB tool. (See “Event Monitoring Service”.)

New: High Resolution Timer Support: Enhances select timer-related system calls and APIs to provide a resolution finer than the default 10 millisecond resolution. (See “High Resolution Timer Support”.)

HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.55 with support for large process IDs; enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for Veritas Volume Manager, versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0; new metrics for monitoring the UFC; and other changes. (See “HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak”.)

“HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment”

HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.01 with support for persistent DSF naming and dynamic multipathing, large PID, identification of networking interfaces (NICs) that are part of the Serviceguard cluster configuration, and other features. VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) not supported in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3. RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat is obsolete. (See “HP Serviceguard”.)

HP Serviceguard Network File Server (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Customers who need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS is available on that platform. (See “HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit”.)

HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes. In addition, is the addition of the new Web-based solutions for Networking and Communications (ncweb), and ServiceGuard complex management (sgmgr) being introduced for HP-UX 11i v3. (See “HP System Management Homepage”.)

HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to “HP SIM 5.0 with Update 2 - HP-UX” with support for HP BladeSystem c-Class blade and enclosure, and onboard administrator; HP BladeSystem Integrated Manager 2.1 with updated functionality; minimum system memory configuration to run HP SIM on HP-UX 11i v3 is now 3GB, and defect fixes. (See “HP Systems Insight Manager ”.)

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05 with association providers, internationalization support for CIM operations, CIM schema upgrade, and other major changes. (See “HP WBEM Services for HP-UX”.)

HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; long user names and group names; NIS + Shadow mode can co-exist. (See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups”.)

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Command preview support in TUI; TUI supports form-based inputs; supports Error Management Technology; includes critical defect fixes. (See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration”.)

New: HP-UX Large NPROC: The HP-UX 11i v3 system can support more processes running concurrently then previous releases, changing from 30,000 to 60,000. (See “HP-UX Large NPROC”.)

New: HP-UX Large PID: The range of Process Identifiers (PID) the kernel can generate in a stand-alone HP-UX system has been expanded from 0 ~ 30,000 to 0 ~ 2^^30-1 (1,073,741,823). (See “HP-UX Large PID”.)

HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Enhanced to support the Agile Hardware Path Addressing and Persistent Device Special Files; enhanced to allow for Online deletion of OLRAD cards; now reads the detailed CRA report from the log file in which the report is logged after the change in the CRA behavior; and more. (See “HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager”.)

HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues: Enhanced with dynamic tuning capabilities. Tunables msgmax, msgssz, msgmap, msgseg are obsolete. Added new dynamic tunable msgmbs; indicates maximum kernel memory to be used for messages waiting to be received. Tunables msgmni, msgtql are made dynamic. (See “HP-UX System V IPC Message Queues”.)

HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01. All functionalities for association classes are now implemented. (See “HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider”.)

New: HP-UX WBEM File System Provider: Makes available file system information; instruments the HPUX_HFS, HP_LOFS, HP_CDFS, HP_VxFS, HP_NFS, HP_MountPoint and HPUX_Mount classes. (See “HP-UX WBEM File System Provider”.)

HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider: Now displays information about all slots on HP-UX 11i v3 system. (See “HP-UX WBEM IOTree Provider ”.)

New: HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider: Not currently supported; intended to support features in future releases of HP-UX 11i v3. (See “HP-UX WBEM Online Operations Service Provider”.)

HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider: Updated to version 11.31.01, but no new feature changes. (See “HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider”.)

Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.0.x with multipath-awareness, new approach for addressing I/O, automatic management of the system boot path for multiple path configurations, user-selectable format for recovery archives and golden archives, and other changes. (See “Ignite-UX”.)

New: Kernel Tunable Values Reset From Boot Prompt: HP-UX 11i v3 release provides a new feature in which kernel tunable values can be reset from the boot prompt. (See “Kernel Tunable Values Reset From Boot Prompt”.)

New: Livedump: Provides the ability to take a crashdump on a live system without a forced shutdown or panic of that system. Implemented for Itanium ®-based platforms only. (See “Livedump”.)

New: Long Username / Groupname: Current limit enhanced from 8 to 255 bytes. By default 8 is still the limit. With an enabler this limit can be enhanced to 255. Once enabled, cannot be disabled in the future. Not supported for trusted systems. (See “Long Username / Groupname”.)

New: Node and Host Name Expansion: Provides the ability to set node and host names up to 255 bytes. (See “Node and Host Name Expansion”.)

Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers. (See “Obsolescence Bundle”.)

Online Diagnostics product: Includes several enhancements and features, including support for the Interface Expansion Program (IEP) for large username, groupname, PIDs, and nproc; support of additional features of HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars), such as support for notification of events due to dynamic CPU migration; support for agile view of devices, for reporting extended hardware path of devices, for reporting recovered Machine Check Aborts; and other features and changes. (See “Online Diagnostics”.)

SCSI Kernel Tunables: scsi_maxphys, scsi_max_qdepth and default_disk_ir kernel tunables are obsolete. (See “SCSI Kernel Tunables (Obsolete)”.)

Software Distributor: Updated to version 11.31 with support for HP-UX 11i v3-unique features including large pid, long usernames and group names; and improved support for high level software deployment tools such as Software Manager, update-ux, and future tools. Includes defect fixes. (See “Software Distributor”.)

Software Package Builder: Added new policy files that include the expansion of the acceptable category tags, the addition of the is_oe attribute, and changes to the architecture and os_release attribute rules. (See “Software Package Builder”.)

System Administration Manager (SAM): Deprecated. The smh command is recommended, but sam command will continue to be available. Some functional areas previously available are obsoleted. (See “System Administration Manager (SAM)”.)

System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security Functional Area: System Security Policies subarea of SAM is replaced with the HP- UX Security Attributes Configuration tool; Audited NIS+ Users subarea is obsolete. (See “System Administration Manager (SAM) Auditing and Security”.)

System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters Functional Area: Launch point in X/ObAM-based GUI mode is now via the HP System Management Homepage. (See “System Administration Manager (SAM) Printers and Plotters”.)

System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management Homepage: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) is the system administration tool for managing HP-UX 11i. HP SMH provides web-based systems management functionality, at-a-glance monitoring of system component health, and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH also provides Terminal User Interfaces (TUIs). (See “System Administration Management Tool Changes: SAM and HP System Management Homepage”.)

System Fault Management: Features include Event Manager-Common Information Model Provider and Error Management Technology. SFMIndicationProvider and Log Viewer not available; other changes included. (See “System Fault Management”.)

Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: The update-ux command now uses Software Manager, a new application that provides features including support for preview; interactive TUI; better support for multiple media, including more accurate disk space analysis, dependency selection across media; and improved logging capabilities. (See “Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS ”.)

Virtual Memory Kernel Tunable physical_io_buffers: Now obsolete. Was used in HP-UX 11i v1.6 and v2 to size a shared buffer pool for physical I/O operations in the kernel. As of HP-UX 11i v3 and later, the kernel automatically manages the pool size. (See “Virtual Memory Kernel Tunable physical_io_buffers (Obsolete)”.)

Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables: The eqmem_limit (only on PA-RISC systems) has been added. Several tunables has been removed. See section for details. (See “Virtual Memory Kernel Tunables”.)

HFS (also known as UFS) File System Type: Now deprecated. Will be removed from the OS in a future release, to be determined. (See “HFS File System Type (Deprecated)”.)

HFS file system and backup commands: To work on file sizes larger than 2TB. (See “HFS Filesystem and Backup Commands for Files >2TB”).

HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.01 with support for MS Distributed File System (DFS) and DLKM feature and other changes. (See “HP CIFS Client ”.)

HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0f version A.02.03: Redesign of Winbind code; File Locking Interoperation Functionality; support for long user and group names; support for TDB Memory Map. (See “HP CIFS Server”.)

HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements: Numerous enhancements include VFS stacking capabilities; fsdaemon user level daemon; large file systems and large files support; improved file systems syncer; performance improvement of aio_reap(2); support of larger files and long link names in backup utility; and several other enhancements. (See “HP-UX File Systems Architecture Enhancements”.)

Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX: Delivers significant scalability and availability enhancements. Supports the next generation mass storage stack, and is integrated with the mass storage stack’s load balancing and dynamic LUN expansion features; enhanced to support larger logical volumes, temporary suspension of volume groups, striping with mirroring, and dynamic LUN expansion; enables online modification of a volume group, as well as a new script to simplify the replacement of a failing disk. (See “Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX ”.)

“Open Network Computing (ONC)”

New: Unified File Cache: Integrates the page cache and buffer cache to provide coherency for file access. Serves as a key enabler for VxFS 4.1 and ONC+2.3. Improves source compatibility with Solaris, Tru64, and Linux applications that depend on coherency of page and buffer cache. Potential performance improvement of applications that depend on coherency of page and buffer cache. (See “Unified File Cache”.)

VERITAS File System (VxFS): Features in version 4.1 include VxFS filesystem as a DLKM; multi-device filesystems; checkpoint enhancements; portable data enhancements; and other features. Cluster File System (CFS) is not supported in the initial release of HP-UX 11i v3. (See “VERITAS File System ”.)

VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM): Features in version 4.1 include support for Volume Sets and VxFS MDS; Cross-Platform Data Sharing; Device Discovery Layer Phase 2; Serial Split Brain; and other features. Cluster Volume Manager (CVM), a part of VxVM that is enabled by a separate license, is not being provided with the current 4.1 HP-UX 11i v3 release. (See “VERITAS Volume Manager”.)

ARPA Transport: Many enhancements to ARPA Transport include Security Containment, sendfile/UFC, UNIX 2003 Conformance, large hostname support, and Tru64 Application migration to HP-UX/Itanium ®-based. (See “ARPA Transport”.)

Browsers: Mozilla is updated with defect fixes. Includes improved Asian font support on HP-UX and the Japanese Language Pack.(See “Browsers”.)

HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI): Enhancements include NOSYNC STREAMS synchronization level for improved performance and scalability for high speed links, online deletion (OLD) of I/O card instances, and dynamic loading and unloading of LAN drivers without reboot. (See “HP Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI)”.)

HP-UX PPPv6: Incorporates defect fixes. (See “HP-UX PPPv6”.)

HP-UX VLAN: New features include support for HP-UX VLANs over APA aggregates and LAN-monitor failover groups, SMH-Network Interface Configuration support for Web-based VLAN configuration, and nwmgr support for HP-UX VLANs. (See “HP-UX VLAN”.)

“HP-UX Web Server Suite”

Internet Services: You can now deselect individual Internet Services during installation or remove filesets later. (See “Internet Services”.)

BIND: BIND 9.3 includes many new features, including transition support for IPv4 and IPv6. With HP-UX 11i v3, NAMED and NAMED ARGS variables are moved to /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs. (See “BIND”.)

DHCPv4 (bootpd): New option sa configures the tftp server, providing control of the siaddr field of the dhcp packet. New configuration option for the subnet selection option in the /etc/dhcptab file allows bootpd to assign a network address even if bootpd is not part of that network. Support for PXE clients is added. (See “DHCPv4 (bootpd)”.)

DHCPv6: Now available in the core operating system. (See “DHCPv6”.)

inetd(1): Two new command line options, -p (limit number of processes invoked by inetd) and -a (enable user level auditing pf processes). Support for large hostnames and large PIDs. (See “inetd”.)

libc: Numerous changes in APIs. (See “libc”.)

Mailx, Elm, and Talk: elm(1M) and mailx(1M) are long-user-name compliant. (See “Mailx, Elm and Talk”.)

R-commands: long username is supported. (See “R-commands (Remote Commands)”)

Sendmail: Version 8.13.3 has numerous new features. (See “Sendmail”.)

TFTP: tftpd™ (server) and tftp™ (client) now support IPv6 addresses. New command line options specify upper and lower port range limits for data transfer. (See “TFTP”.)

WU-FTPD: Version 2.6.1 supports long usernames. This release introduces a new feature, ascii count in the ftpaccess(4) file by which ftpf can be made to reset the timeout alarm of the data connection. (See “WU-FTPD”.)

LAN Administration Commands: lanadmin now supports an IPoIB interface, 64-bit MIB, and native and non-native drivers developed by independent hardware vendors; lanscan and linkloop now support IPoIB interfaces. (See “LAN Administration Commands”.)

LDAP-UX Integration Product: This release includes the new LDAP-UX version B.04.00.10. (See “LDAP-UX Integration Product ”.)

New: Network Interface Management Command Line Interface: The nwmgr command is used to manage LAN-based and IB-based network interfaces; a single tool for performing all network interface-related tasks. (See “Network Interface Management Command Line Interface”.)

New: Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: These tools in the HP System Management Homepage replace the Networking and Communications functions of the System Administration Manager (SAM), which are no longer available. (See “Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration (ncweb)”.)

Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to version B.07.10.20 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX ”.)

STREAMS: NOSYNC feature allows multiple instances of a put procedure for a queue and the service routine for that queue to run concurrently. All references to the global variable uniprocessor have been removed. (See “STREAMS”.)

NetTL - Network Tracing and Logging: The nettl command is enhanced with formatting support for IPoIB header, new command-line option to configure trace buffer timer value, support for pre-capture trace filters, and new command-line options to manage trace filters. (See “NetTL - Network Tracing and Logging”.)

HP-UX 11i Security Containment: Fine-grained privileges and compartments are now part of the core. (See “HP-UX 11i Security Containment”.)

HP-UX Auditing System: Enhanced in several ways, including: Standard Mode Auditing now part of core products; multi-threaded kernel audit daemon is now dedicated in logging the data into configurable number of files for better performance; collected audit data are more comprehensive; and several other enhancements. (See “HP-UX Auditing System”.)

HP-UX Bastille: With version 3.0.x, new enhancements, capabilities, features, and benefits (including bastille_drift analysis) represent additional items that Bastille will be able to lock down, additional usability improvements, and a new ability for Bastille to ensure that each cluster node has a consistent set of security settings. (See “HP-UX Bastille”.)

HP-UX IPFilter: Updated to version A.03.05.13 with defect fixes and enhancements including filtering on X.25 interfaces, filtering on 10GigE interfaces; IPFilter not plumbed into the networking stack by default; no reboot required to enable IPFilter. (See “HP-UX IPFilter”.)

New: HP-UX IPSec: Previously only available on the AR media. Now delivered on the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. Provides an infrastructure to allow secure communications (authentication, integrity, confidentiality) over IP networks between systems and devices that implement the IPsec protocol suite. (For update details, see “HP-UX IPSec”.)

HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.04.40.005 with new features including an sftp only solution in a chroot environment; TCP wrappers support for IPv6; Standard Mode Security Extensions (SMSE) enhanced to provide the “Audit all users and events” feature; and other features, as well as defect fixes. (See “HP-UX Secure Shell A.04.40.005”.)

HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration tool (secweb): Updated to support long user name. (See “HP-UX Security Attributes Configuration (secweb)”.)

New: HP-UX Standard Mode Security Extensions: Now part of the core OS; provides a new command and new library functions. Shadow passwords are now also supported with NIS. (See “HP-UX Standard Mode Security Extensions”.)

Install-Time Security: Updated to version 1.0.4 with new questions/configuration, diagnostic daemon configure to local-only use (not network), and syslog local-only. (See “Install-Time Security”.)

Kerberos Client: Updated to version 1.3.5.03 with new features including support for powerful cryptographic algorithms like 3DES, RC4, and AES; support for IPv6; support for TCP; and defect fixes. (See “Kerberos Client ”.)

OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.08b.09.07j with support (in default version) for several hardware ENGINES (see section for specifics); support for elliptic curve cryptography; and EVP, the library of which provides a high-level interface to cryptographic functions. Other provided versions include other features. (See “OpenSSL”.)

PAM Kerberos: Enhanced to issue a warning if rc_host_0 is owned by anyone other than root when a user tries to rlogin into a system; will also issue a warning if the keytable entry is not found for the host service principal on the client but present at the KDC. (See “PAM Kerberos”.)

Security Patch Check: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. (See “Security Patch Check”.)

/etc/skel/.profile shell script: . (current path) in $PATH is deprecated. (See “/etc/skel/.profile shell script”.)

32-bit pstat System Call (Deprecated): When compiling a 32-bit application that uses the pstat() system call, the compiler option _D_PSTAT64 must now be specified. This causes pstat() to use 64-bit fields rather than 32-bit fields. The application still remains a 32-bit application. (See “32-bit pstat System Call (Deprecated)”.)

at, cron, and batch Commands: New features include support for queueing multiple jobs at the same time, support for queueing of more than 100 jobs, and ability to schedule jobs up to the njob limit specified for every queue in queuedefs(4). (See “at, cron, and batch Commands”.)

core Format Implementation Change: The true version string has replaced the utsname struct in the CORE_KERNEL segment. A work-around has been provided for applications which reversed-engineered the core file format and depend on utsname being in it. This new core file format is now the default format. (See “core Format Implementation Change ”.)

csh Command Line Interpreter: The non-interactive invocation of csh will not source the ~/.history file by default. (See “csh Command Language Interpreter”.)

File Systems Backup and Recovery Commands fbackup, frecover, and ftio: Deprecated; will be obsolete in a future HP-UX release. You should prepare by migrating to the favorable replacement pax. Support will be continued for archive retrieval. (See “File Systems Backup and Recovery Commands fbackup, frecover, and ftio (Deprecated)”.)

New: gcore Command: creates a core image of each specified process. (See “gcore Command”.)

getgroups(), setgroups(): no longer limited by the NGROUPS_MAX. (See “getgroups, setgroups System Calls”.)

getty Command: Enhanced to configure the default setting for special control characters (erase, kill, etc.) by the user. (See “getty Command”.)

HP-UX Kernel Configuration Commands: Includes several significant changes including revision of error, warning, and note messages for clarity; new options for kconfig, kcmodule, and kctune for control of automatic configuration backups; 2 new options for kctune command; kctune now allows some tunable values to be specified in terms of the percentage of some system resource; changes have been made to the kernel configuration commands to improve resiliency and performance; tunable parameter values may now be overridden on the boot loader command line; and several other changes, including some obsolescences. (See “HP-UX Kernel Configuration Commands”.)

iostat Command: Enhanced to report activity for each active lunpath to the LUNs. Also, the new option -L has been added, which lists active lunpath statistics. (See “iostat Command”.)

Long hostname, uname, and setuname: The limits of these commands can now be expanded to 255 bytes. (See “Long hostname, uname, and setuname”.)

New: Long Username Support by HFS ff, VxFS 4.1 ff, repquota, quotacheck: Enhanced to support the username up to 255 bytes. (See “Long Username Support by HFS ff, VxFS 4.1 ff, repquota, quotacheck”.)

lp, lpadmin, lpfence, lpmove, and lpsched Commands: Printers can now be added/removed/modified without bringing down the lp scheduler; line printer spooler enhanced to support printer/class names up to 250 characters from the previous limit of 14 characters; support also extended to remote destination names. (See “lp, lpadmin, lpfence, lpmove, and lpsched Commands”.)

mmap() System Call: Enhanced to support mapping file with read only permission with PROT_EXEC and implicit mmap with MAP_FIXED (See “mmap() System Call”.)

pax Command: Enhanced to conform to the Unix 2003 Standard. You will now be able to use pax to archive files having a size greater than or equal to 8GB; long user name/group name; large UID/GID greater than 2097151; long pathname or link name. (See “pax Command”.)

PFS Commands: Obsolete. (See “PFS (Portable File System) Commands (Obsolete)”.)

pipcs Command: Enhanced to provide details regarding processes using the various POSIX Message Queues, as well as creation time and last modification time of the POSIX Message Queues. (See “pipcs Command”.)

ps Command: Enhanced to display maximum of 1020 characters in the COMMAND field. (See “ps Command”.)

New: pselect() System Call: Added to meet the UNIX 2003 Standard. Provides additional parameter options to users of the select() system call. Timeout granularity may be specified in seconds and nanoseconds. A new signal mask parameter is also available to be used for the duration of system call. (See “pselect() System Call”.)

psrset Command: Enhanced to support one more PSET attribute type called LCPU. (See “psrset Command”.)

pstat_getstatic() System Call: Information returned by pstat_getstatic() may now change between reboots due to manually or automatically generated administrative changes in the associated kernel tunables, online addition/deletion of resources, or other events. Likelihood of it changing is infrequent. (See “pstat_getstatic() System Call”.)

New: Ptools Process Management Tools: New set of process management tools that support easy process tracking and debugging. Consists of the following commands: pmap, pfiles, pgrep, pkill, ptree. (See “Ptools Process Management Tools Command”.)

ptrace() System Call: Obsolete in HP-UX 11i v3. (See “ptrace() System Call (Obsolete)”.)

sar Command: Enhanced to report activity for each HBA and Tape device. (See “sar Command”.)

setboot Command: modified to take a persistent DSF or a lunpath hardware path as valid input to set the bootpath for next boot; enhanced to enable or disable hyperthreading environment for the next boot on a Dual-Core Intel® Itanium ® 2 platform. (See “setboot Command”.)

sigblock(2), sigsetmask(2), sigstack(2), sigvector(2), bsd_signal(3C): Manpages are obsolete. (See “sigblock(2), sigsetmask(2), sigstack(2), sigvector(2), bsd_signal(3C) Manpages (Obsolescence)”.)

spray Command: Provides two new options: -d, which specifies how many microseconds to pause between sending each packet, and -t, which specifies class of transports. (See “spray Command”.)

New: swapctl() System Call: Allows you to configure primary swap to take effect on the next boot. Previously this could only be done via the commands lvlnboot and vxvmboot. swapon() system call is deprecated. (See “swapctl() and swapon() System Calls”.)

swapon and swapinfo Commands: swapon command enhanced to support setting/unsetting of primary swap device for next boot; swapinfo command supports new -s option to display settings of the primary swap for next boot. (See “swapon and swapinfo Commands”.)

sysdef Command: Deprecated. Reports incorrect values for some tunable parameters such as msgmap, sema, and shmem. (See “sysdef Command (Deprecated)”.)

syslogd Command: Enhanced to log multibyte message strings correctly. (See “syslogd Command”.)

usermod has been modified to selectively prevent the movement of home directories with -m option. (See “usermod Command”.)

UNIX 2003 Compliance: All commands are modified/enhanced to conform to UNIX 2003 Standards. The UNIX 2003 changes which do not affect HP-UX compatibility are available by default. Otherwise, in order to get Unix 2003 behavior, the variable UNIX_STD has to be defined in the environment. (See “UNIX 2003 Standards Compliance Commands”.)

Bundled C Compiler: Updated to version A.06.12 on Integrity Servers and B.11.11.16 on PA-RISC. Highly compatible with previous versions; diagnostic messages have changed; more erroneous and suspicious source constructs are diagnosed. (See “Bundled C Compiler”.)

aC++ Run Time Library: Includes the -AA -D_HP_NONSTD_FAST_IOSTREAM performance improvement macro, C++ Standard Library TC1 compliance change, and USA 2007 Daylight Savings Time legislation support. (See “aC++ Run Time Library”.)

FirstBoot: As part of Transition links (a.k.a. Upgrade), HP used to create a symbolic link /etc/set_parms —> /sbin/set_parms. Transition links are obsoleted in HP-UX 11i v3 and set_parms is available to the user as /sbin/set_parms. So HP-UX 11i v3 will not support the symbolic link /etc/set_parms. (See “FirstBoot”.)

HP MLIB: Updated to version 9.5 with the addition of two new libraries, VECLIBSC8 and LAPACKSC8, which are 64-bit address libraries with 64-bit integer values that use calling conventions similar to those found in Cray’s SCILIB math library. (See “HP MLIB”.)

“HP-UX C Library (libc)”

HP-UX Color-Curses: libcur_colr Library and Commands: Obsolete. Were declared deprecated in HP-UX 10.30 and are not available in HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC. (See “HP-UX Color-Curses: libcur_colr Library and Commands (Obsolete)”.)

“Java 2 Platform”

New: libIO Library: libIO.so (for Itanium®-based systems) or libIO.sl (for PA-RISC systems) is a shared library, which provides APIs for accessing the HP-UX I/O subsystem information. The library will reduce the dependency on other HP-UX commands for I/O information. (See “libIO Library”.)

libpthread Library: Added new API, pthread_setschedprio(), to set scheduling priority of target thread. (See “libpthread Library”.)

Link Editor (ld): Additional linker options introduced since patch PHSS_34440, June 2006, and other changes. (See “Link Editor (ld)”.)

Mercury Library (libhg): Provides high performance interfaces between the user programs and the kernel making it possible to transfer key pieces of information back and forth at high speeds. (See “Mercury Library (libhg)”.)

Software Transition Kit (STK): Designed to help transition HP-UX applications from earlier versions of HP-UX to the latest version of HP-UX. Will not be available for HP-UX 11i v3.

Threads Renice facility: Two new pthread APIs to change nice value of a thread in a multi-threaded process. (See “Threads Renice facility”.)

UNIX 2003 Standard Profile Conformance: New functions and compiler conformance as defined in Single UNIX Specification version 3. The Precision Architecture (PA) systems have most of the UNIX 2003 features available for applications. Since the C99 compiler will not be available on PA, full UNIX 2003 branding is not supported. Itanium®-based systems fully conform and are branded to UNIX 2003. (See “UNIX 2003 Standard Profile Conformance”.)

Unwind Library (libunwind): Updated to version 1.48. Performance of the unwind express APIs has been improved substantially; U_STACK_TRACE(3X) and _UNW_STACK_TRACE(3X) APIs have been enhanced; new APIs have been added to the unwind express portion of the library. (See “Unwind Library (libunwind)”.)

Unicode 5.0: Now supported. Unicode 5.0 is an extension to the previously supported Unicode 3.0 character set standard. (See “Unicode 5.0 Support”.)

New: JISX0213 Standard: Now supported. (See “JIS X 0213 Standard Support”.)

New: KS X 1001 Standard: Now supported. (See “KS X 1001 Standard Support”.)

New: Big5-2003 and CNS11643 Standards: Now supported. (See “Big5-2003 and CNS11643-2004 Standard Support”.)

New: HKSCS-2004 (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set): Now supported. (See “HKSCS-2004 Support”.)

New: Locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America: Now supported. (See “New Locales - Baltic/Russia/Ukraine/Latin America”.)

New: Locale Versioning: localedef/libc UNIX 2003-related I18N changes. New locale version “locales.3” has been generated for all system supported locale binaries. This has been provided to protect older PA-RISC-based archived applications from unexpected systems behavior in order to fully support the UNIX 2003 standard. (See “New Locale Versioning: localedef/libc UNIX 2003-related I18N changes”.)

UNIX 2003 Support: The localedef, locale and iconv commands and the associated C library APIs, locale databases and iconv converters have been updated to align with the UNIX 2003 standard. (See “UNIX 2003 Support in localedef, locale, and iconv”.)

Alternate Width Properties for Unicode Codesets: Now supported for Asian locales. (See “Alternate Width Properties for Unicode Codesets”.)

New: Messaging Commands: mkcatdefs, dspmsg, and dspcat. Added to HP-UX for compatibility with Tru64 UNIX. (See “New Messaging Commands: mkcatdefs, dspmsg, and dspcat”.)

New: Iconv Codeset Converter Config File Changes: system.config.iconv. New system.config.iconv file provided to separate the HP-UX core OS iconv mapping table information from the layered third-party and user-specific iconv mapping table information. (See “Iconv Codeset Converter Config File Changes: system.config.iconv”.)

Japanese Mainframe Character Set: iconv now supports an extended area of Japanese mainframe character sets. (See “Japanese Mainframe Character Set Converter ”.)

New: Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf: New PostScript printer filter psfontpf enables printing of non-English international characters in text files and web pages. (See “Internationalized PostScript Printing Support: psfontpf”.)

Asian Printing: Asian lp model files and filters have been enhanced to support important Asian national standards and ISO 10646. (See “Asian Printing”.)

TrueType Fonts for European Codesets: Provides additional TrueType fonts support to cover the glyph patterns for ASCII, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin-Extended-B, Greek, Cyrillic, and currency symbols. (See “TrueType Fonts for European Codesets”.)

Asian TrueType Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO10646. New typefaces are provided for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese fonts. (See “Asian TrueType Fonts”.)

Asian Bitmap Fonts: Enhanced to support the latest national standards and ISO 10646. (See “Asian Bitmap Fonts”.)

Fallback Font Support: For text-based GUI applications, in the event there are no glyphs, the application will display “?” or “::” characters. (See “Fallback Font Support”.)

Asian Functionality (Obsoleted): Several legacy functions are obsolete and have been removed. Also, certain Asian printer lp models, utility/library routines, and dot bitmap fonts have been deprecated. (See “Asian Obsoleted and Deprecated Functionality ”.)

Common Desktop Environment: Updated to version 2.1. now includes native Itanium ®-based 32-bit CDE binaries, 32-bit Xclients, and other features; delivers 64-bit PA-RISC and Itanium®-based libraries for the first time in HP-UX 11i v3; supports Node and Host Name Expansion feature and expanded username feature; and includes several other changes. (See “Common Desktop Environment”.)

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login: Several filesets have been removed; several products are not available with DCE Client; Integrated Login has introduced a new library. (See “Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Client and Integrated Login”.)