Consolidation of products since SR5.1 GS
DM&M , Batch RDIP , GNSP , MSV3 ,LCB2
Boot With Switch and shared Channel

MULTI I/O FIBRE DISK (<4)
Multi I/O Fibre Disk provides simultaneous connects (< 4) on the same LUN and other performance improvements

IOP Assign Enhancements
IOP Assign enhancements permit suspending erroneous channel processing and allow other channels to continue

BATCH RDIP
Batch RDIP operations: four modes of operations

• Interactive: same as before
• Survey: build parameter file
• Verify: validate parameter file
• Execute: use parameter file

DM&M Enhancements
Extend matrix usage (File create , restore , restoremast )
Clone override options

• 8IT4.3 U0

• Pre-initialization of TP8 WS Structures (Off-line TP1H) new file code ".O"
• TPR Pool Mix Enhancements
• Time Stamp Verification Applied (Fast $FILE)
• TP8 Process Groups
• Accounting Performance
• WMON Interface to Terminate Workstation
• Items previously configured via CX39 (Remote Forms, etc.)
• Maximum Dumps per TPR Applied at the TPR Level
• Reset Dumps Taken in $TPR
• Spawn Job at Workstation Termination
• Automatic Logon Command Invocation with TQ8
• $PST expansion
• Delete Obsolete Service Commands

• 8IT4.3 U1

• Allow exemption from $RDY processing
• Additionnal control over IDS/II Physical/Logical Delete Switch
• Process Group enhancements
• New Subcommand for $FAS command
• XA8 COMMIT Pending recovery support
• ISP and IDS/I are no longer supported

• "Auto Purge" for GOS Indirect I/O Lost Interrupts
  The VMM now automatically purges a GOS’s NDIO when the GOS issues a new connect to a channel that has had a lost interrupt

• Elimination of the VMM GOS Direct I/O Configuration Error Check

• Support for Network Connected Consoles (OLYMPUS 2)
• DIO Assignment For Channels Associated With Printer, Hyper_channel, And DI_channel Units

• SP Notification Of GOS 16 And 17 DIAGs
  DPS 9000/TA200 event record in Sp LOG

• COBOL-85 Extensions for 8C84.0 U3

• EXAMINE statement
• SPECIAL NAMES BLOCK clause
• Multiple Entry point
• COMP-N data types
• CONTROL DIVISION
• Channnel slewing
• _ and $ characters may be used in data names
• 48 levels of subscripting
• USAGE IS POINTER
• Dynamic memory allocation and deallocation
• EBCDIC and GBCD data types

• INTEREL enhancements

• Optimizer "Hints" to Improve performance
• New timestamp Built-In Function
• New Date/time Built-In Functions
• Code Generation For Date -Related Functions
• Table reorganization Utility Clear Unused Filespace to binary zero
• TRUNCATE Function supported for COBOL-85 SQL program (from 8CB84.0 U2)
• New Options for Cache Satistics Reporting
• PCTFREE Options For Table Reorganization Utility and Index Rebuild Utility
• Specify Tablespace Name/patchname to Database Copy Utility

GNSP "GCOS Network Server Processor"

• Communications Services for GCOS 8 on an Open platform (TCP/IP over Sockets, DSA over RFC1006)
• Optional Terminal Emulator Servers (TNVIP Server, GGATE, GWEB)
• Support for VMF (Multiple GOS Connectability from single GNSP)
• Higher performance levels ( 15000 connections, 500 TPS, > 16MB file transfer, lower GCOS OS overhead)
• More NIC connections (up to 4 NICs, 10/100/1000 Mb LANS)

XA Infrastructure
2 phase commit and recovery
Integrity Control, FMS, TP8 (8IT4.3 U1)

Non JCL Parametric substitution
NEW CARD $ PSDATA
NEW Option in $ DATA : PSDOK

SAN8 with GCOS, Cascaded switch
New (Need update of SP for Olympus 1, 2 and Jupiter 2 phase 2)
Product set requirement:

• Brocade switch 2800 or 3800
• FIBRE Channel
• G8CM 5.6.04 or later
  The version available today on intranet is G8CM 5.6.05

• Begin with the following SP Release :
  - JUPITER 2 L8C300 Patch 06
  - OLYMPUS HR100 Update 18
  - OLYMPUS 2 HR200 Update 05

• IOSP Software Revision D6 contains in preceding SP Release

• GCOS 8 SAN Management
• GNSP PID
• GNSP Alignment rule
• Delete ALL Button
• NEW Hardware Peripherals For Fibre Channel

New command in restore tool

• UNGATE
  allow the prodstat file to be ungated if it was left gated
• FAS ON / OFF
  Provide the possibility to the restore tool command to restore from FAS disk save file instead of tape media

HELIOS - Bull NovaScale™ 9000 (GCOS 8 on IA64 platform)