GT.M Administration and Operations Guide

In Chapter 2: “Installing GT.M”, added a new section called “Reference Implementation Plugin - Shared Library Dependencies”.

In Chapter 7: “Database Replication” and under the “Procedures ” section, corrected the downloadable scripts example (msr_proc2.tar.gz) for setting up an A->P replication configuration.

Updated Chapter 3: “Basic Operations”, Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, and Chapter 7: “Database Replication” for V6.1-000. For chapter specific changes, refer to the chapter-level revision history.

Added a new appendix called Appendix G: “Packaging GT.M Applications”.

In “REORG ”, added a caution note on running successive REORGs.

In “Environment Variables”, improved the description of the gtm_nocenable environment variable.

In “File Header Data Elements ”, updated the descriptions for V6.0-003.

In Chapter 3: “Basic Operations”, added the -help and -? command line options for the gtm script and the descriptions of gtm_ipv4_only and gtm_etrap environment variables.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, corrected the syntax of [NO]STDNULLCOLL and -COLLATION_DEFAULT and added a paragraph about what happens when database file with automatic extension disabled (EXTENSION_COUNT=0) starts to get full.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, added the -MUTEX_SLOTs qualifier for MUPIP SET and -OVERRIDE qualifier for MUPIP RUNDOWN.

In Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, added downloadable script examples for A->B and A->P replication scenarios, information about the ACTIVE_REQUESTED mode, PASSIVE_REQUESTED mode, and IPv6 support.

In Chapter 9: “GT.M Database Structure(GDS)”,corrected the description of block header fields.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, added a planning/preparation checklist that can be used before starting a MUPIP BACKUP.

In Appendix F: “GTMPCAT - GT.M Process/Core Analysis Tool ”, added information about the --cmdfile option.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, Chapter 6: “GT.M Journaling”, and Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, improved the formatting all command syntaxes.

In “SET Object Identifying Qualifiers ”, added the descriptions of -repl_state={on|off} and -dbfilename=filename qualifiers of -jnlfile.

Added Appendix F: “GTMPCAT - GT.M Process/Core Analysis Tool ”. gtmpcat is a diagnostic tool for FIS to provide GT.M support.

Updated for V6.0-001. For chapter-specific revisions, refer to Chapter 3: “Basic Operations”, Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, Chapter 6: “GT.M Journaling”, Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, and Chapter 10: “Database Structure Editor”.

Updated for V6.0-000. For chapter-specific revisions, refer to Chapter 3: “Basic Operations”, Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, Chapter 6: “GT.M Journaling”, Chapter 10: “Database Structure Editor”, and Appendix B: “Monitoring GT.M Messages”.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, added the description of the -INST_FREE_ON_ERROR region qualifier.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, added the description of the -INST_FREE_ON_ERROR qualifier of MUPIP SET.

In Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, added the description of the -FREEZE qualifier of MUPIP REPLICATE -SOURCE.

In Chapter 3: “Basic Operations” added gtm_custom_errors to the list of “Environment Variables”.

In Chapter 12: “Database Encryption”, added information about setting the environment variable GTMXC_gpgagent in “Special note - Gnu Privacy Guard version 2”.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, improved the description of MUPIP INTEG and the -ADJACENCY qualifier.

In Chapter 3: “Basic Operations” added GTMXC_gpgagent to the list of “Environment Variables”.

In Chapter 11: “Maintaining Database Integrity”, added the “O5–Salvage of a damaged spanning node” and “Recovering data from damaged binary extracts” sections.

In Chapter 9: “GT.M Database Structure(GDS)”, added a new section called “Using GDS records to hold spanning nodes ” and corrected the first sentence of the "Use of Keys" section as follows:

GT.M locates records by finding the first key in a block lexically greater than, or equal to, the current key.

In “Database Structure Editor”, improved the description of -DATA.

In “Starting the Receiver Server ”, improved the description of -UPDATERESYNC.

In Appendix D: “Building Encryption Libraries”, removed a redundant step in the “Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC) ” section.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, added the description of the STDNULLCOLL qualifier and corrected the description of the NULL_SUBSCRIPTS qualifier.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor” and Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, corrected the maximum value for -LOCK_SPACE and improved the description of -FLUSH_TIME.

In Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, improved the description of the replication WAS_ON state and added the “Recovering from the replication WAS_ON state ” section.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor” and Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, improved the description of -LOCK_SPACE.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, improved the overview description of GDE.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, added a note on MUPIP BACKUP supporting only one concurrent -online backup.

In Chapter 10: “Database Structure Editor” added the description of the GVSTATS qualifier.

In Chapter 1: “About GT.M”, added a new section called "Command Qualifiers".

In Chapter 13: “GT.CM Client/Server”, corrected the example of starting a GT.CM server.

In screen and print pdfs, removed excessive spacing around SVG diagrams in Chapter 7: Database Replication.

Updated Chapter 7: “Database Replication” for V5.5-000.

In Chapter 3: Basic Operations, corrected the description of the environment variable gtm_non_blocked_write_retries.

Fixed a typo (stand-along -> stand-alone) in “Recommendations”.

Added Chapter 13: “GT.CM Client/Server”.

In Chapter 5: “General Database Management”, added the description of MUPIP REORG -TRUNCATE and MUPIP LOAD -STDIN.

In Chapter 6: “GT.M Journaling”, added the description of -ROLLBACK -ONLINE, updated the description of -EXTRACT to include the -stdout value, and added the definitions of unam, clntunam, and ALIGN records.

In Chapter 8: “M Lock Utility (LKE)”, added the description of the LOCKSPACEUSE message.

In Chapter 10: “Database Structure Editor”, updated the description of -SIBLING.

In Chapter 4: “Global Directory Editor”, added AUTOSWITCHLIMIT as an option for the -JOURNAL region qualifier.

In Chapter 7: “Database Replication”, removed -LOG as an option for -STATSLOG.

Added Appendix E: “GT.M Security Philosophy”.

In “Rolling Back the Database After System Failures”, corrected the command syntax and the example.

In “Starting the Source Server”, corrected the quoting of -filter examples.

In “Journal Extract Formats”, added the definition of tid.

In “O4–Salvage of Data Blocks with Lost Indices”, fixed syntax errors in the example.

Updated the section called “Journal Extract Formats” for V5.5-000.

In “Installation Procedure”, removed an incorrect reference to libgtmshr.so.

Updated “Basic Operations” for V5.5-000.

In “Database Replication”, improved the description of the -instsecondary qualifier and added the “Stopping a Source Server” section and the “Shutting Down an instance” procedure.

Updated “Installing GT.M” for V5.5-000.

Updated “REORG ” for V5.5-000. Also, improved the description of -EXCLUDE and -SELECT qualifiers.

In “CHANGE -FIleheader Qualifiers”, added a caution note about changing the value of the -CORRUPT_FILE fileheader element.

In “Starting the Source Server”, added information about using external filters for pre-V5.5-000 versions.

In “Starting the Source Server”, added an example of a replication filter.

In “Before you begin”, added a note to caution users about installing and operating GT.M from an NFS mounted directory.

In “Operating in DSE”, improved the description of the Change command.

In “GT.M Journaling”, improved the description of -EXTRACT and corrected the heading levels of some sections under MUPIP JOURNAL.

In “Database Replication”, corrected the usage of the term propagating instance, improved the description of -stopsourcefilter, and changed -nopropagatingprimary to -propagatingprimary.

Added Index entries for gtmsecshr.

In “Compiling ICU”, changed the instructions for Compiling ICU 4.4 on AIX 6.1.

In the “SET ” section, changed "MUPIP SEt" to "MUPIP SET".

In the “Startup” section, changed "Restore the replication instance file" to "Recreate the replication instance file".