Survey says....What would you like to see in the next version of HP-UX?

[Geoff Wild]

What would you like to see in the next version of HP-UX?

For me, to be able to modify the size of any lvol in vg00 - on the fly. Having to boot to LVM maintenance mode to increase /stand seems almost archaic.

Rgds...Geoff

[Steven E. Protter]

I would like to see this:

1) The ability to boot a kernel with /stand as a vxfs filesystem.

2) I would like to be able to run by box with one filesysetm and lvm.

3) Build Mirror/UX into the base OS. It is ridiculous to run a Enterprise Server and not include the ability to set up basic mirroring.

I can go on, but I have a meeting.

With regards to your wish, there are some good reasons why / and other filesystems have to be strict contiguous, but I hear you.

SEP

[John Poff]

Hi Geoff,

How about having nearly all the kernel parameters be dynamically tunable?

JP

[Patrick Wallek]

Geoff,

The solution to that is to make /stand plenty big from the get-go. ;) My standard is 256MB.

I would LOVE to see a truly dynamic kernel so that I can install patches without having to reboot the machine, thus saving the painful downtime requests.

I would like to see the capability for true mirrored-stripes (or is that striped mirrors?) for with LVM, for those of use that still use a significant amount of JBOD.

While not related to HP-UX functionality, I would also like to see HP do away with the per processor licensing for HP-UX. I am not a big fan of that.

Hmm......What else.....I'm sure I'll think of something eventually.

[Kevin Wright]

I guess my main thing would be Mirror/UX with the Base OS. A completely dynamic kernel would be great, and they are working on it. Shadow password files by default would be nice too.

[Martin Johnson]

I'd like to see Compaq's (formally, DEC's) true cluster technology incorporated into HPUX. Let's have a *REAL* cluster instead of the pitiful excuse for a cluster called MC/ServiceGuard.

Marty

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Hello-

Gotta go with dynamic sizing capabilities of vg00.

Mike-

[curt larson_1]

those would all be great enhancements. I'd certainly appreciate them, but I won't list them again.

but how about some tools that can handle large files, i.e. how many mega terabytes is the largest file I can create with a 64 bit file system, yet what is the maximum line length in vi. what is the maximum number of fields for awk. what is the largest file i can backup using tar or cpio or pax. how many lines can I tail?

What i'm getting at is file size far out strips the tools for processing files.

how about a shell with modern capabilities, al la ksh93, i.e. ability to pass arrays to functions, associative arrays, subtititute string for pattern (${param/pattern/string}, substring with offset (${param:offset[:length]}, floating point arithmetic, the condiditional operator (?:), postfix and prefix operators (++ and --), pattern matching via character classes ( [:alnum:], [:digit:], etc.), and the string equality operator (==).

[John Bolene]

AIX includes online JFS for free, why not HP?

Martin, the True64 clustering will be in the verssion next year.

I want HP-UX on all Intel, not just Itanium.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

I would like to see that the HPUX kernel
will be dynamic, that would be no need
to do compilation and reboot if you
change kernel parameters.

Caesar