29.01.2010
RTD/XP Version 7.0.0F
INTERCHIP AG is proud to announce that RTD/XP Version 7.0.0F has now reached General Availability status.
RTD/XP Version 7.0.0F is a complete replacement for RTD 6.3.0x and earlier releases, and includes the following optional features:
- FRO - The Fast Replication Option allows optimal I/O performance and reduced dataset enqueue contention by letting I/O operations run as a background task in the I/O device controller, rather than being executed by channel programs in an RTD address space. Since the operation is almost instantly complete from the viewpoint of RTD processing, datasets are enqueued for significantly shorter periods when data movement takes place. FRO supports FlashCopy V2 devices as well as Virtual Array devices.
- MAS - Multiple Address Space Support allows concurrent processing of up to 28 volumes and circumvents the MVS TIOT size limit which restricts the number of allocations (about 3,200) within an address space.
The main new features of RTD/XP Version 7.0.0F include:
- Support for Extended Address Volumes (EAV)
RTD/XP now supports Release, Combine and Defrag processing for datasets allocated on EAV volumes.
Additional selection criteria are available for EAV processing. - Detection of Interrupted Processing
RTD/XP V7 will scan the RTD Log Dataset on start-up to determine if processing for one or more volumes was not complete (due to unexpected termination of RTD/XP or z/OS, for example). A list of such volumes will be written to the z/OS console and the RTD log. - RTD Optional Utilities
RTD Optional Utilities allow the copying of RTD Log and Statistics datasets to sequential datasets for subsequent processing (analysis, download to PCs for processing with tools such as Excel, etc.).
Statistics data may be written in fixed field or CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Log data is formatted as in the RTD ISPF Dialog Log display function.
- z/OS Release 1.11
RTD Version 7.0.0F supports z/OS Release 1.11 and below.