HP fixed the 3000’s Telnet with new patches

A trio of patches to improve the stability and performance of telnet on the HP 3000 has eased into general release status, a sign that the customer community is doing enough testing on HP’s repairs to MPE/iX. The 6.5, 7.0 and 7.5 releases got an all-clear on patches PTDHD49A, PTDHD26A and PTDHD27A, respectively, HP’s fixes to things like telnet’s inbound buffer pool, echoing with some terminal emulators, and a fix to avoid data corruption which customers were seeing under heavy CPU loads. These patches first appeared as beta test status repairs in May, 2003, and it took 17 months for them to clear customer testing enough to satisfy HP’s engineers. Since HP’s 3000 engineering effort is only supposed to be open another 25 months or so, this timeline shows that the final starting point for this time-to-GR deadline for HP’s 3000 fixes could arrive as early as the middle of next year.

HP said at the latest HP World meeting that it has reduced the number of beta test reports it requires to move an MPE patch into general release status. Once a patch goes GR, all HP 3000 sites can apply it to fix problems on systems, regardless of whether those systems are on HP support or not.

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