POWER UNIX Operating System for the '90s and beyond

Contents

• The brains behind the brawn
• Highlights
• Standards compliance: Completely open
• Functionality: Industrial strength
• Usability: Not just another pretty face
• Feature/Benefit
• AIX Version 3.2 for RISC System/6000 at a glance
• Bringing technology to bear
• Room to grow
• Ready for prime time

The brains behind the brawn

The IBM RISC System/6000^(r) has established itself as a performance leader. As with any hardware architecture, however, true processing power is realized only when an operating system is designed to exploit it.

AIX/6000^(r) Version 3.2 from IBM represents the latest in UNIX^(r) technology, blending traditional function and capability with enhancements required for today's technical and commercial computing environments. AIX/6000 3.2 was designed to take advantage of the inherent capabilities of IBM's RISC-based POWER Architecture.(tm)

Highlights

• Full standards compliance
• Robust functionality
• Enhanced usability and installability features
• Platform support for the latest technologies
• Scalability for growth
• Reliability, availability, serviceability

Standards compliance: Completely open

AIX/6000 3.2's roots lie in UNIX System V and Berkeley Software Distribution 4.3 (4.3 BSD), with conformance to the Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments (POSIX(tm)) IEEE 1003.1-1990. AIX/6000 3.2 has received XPG3 branding from X/Open^(r) and supports ANSI C as well as an array of graphics standards, including IBM's implementation of the Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics (PHIGS) and the Graphics Library(tm) (GL(tm)), based on Silicon Graphics' advanced 3D Graphics Library.

IBM demonstrates its AIX/6000 commitment to new and emerging standards by participation in, and submission of technology to, standards-setting organizations and processes, such as the Open Software Foundation(tm) (OSF(tm)), the common open software environment, and PowerOpen.(tm)

Functionality: Industrial strength

AIX/6000 integrates the best of UNIX's multitasking, multiuser and communications capabilities with a host of added features designed to meet the demands of a production environment:

• The Logical Volume Manager enhances system availability by permitting nondisruptive file system extension.
• The Journaled File System increases system integrity by maintaining a log of system activity that can be used in system recovery.
• Access Control Lists provide user and file security.
• The System Manager Interface Tool (SMIT) simplifies system administration.
• InfoExplorer(tm) provides online documentation with an advanced HyperText search/retrieval mechanism.
• TCP/IP, Sun's NFS^(r) Distributed Computers File System, and the availability of OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) provide the basis for connectivity.

The result is an industrial-strength UNIX operating system with all the trimmings required for its application to critical business environments.

Usability: Not just another pretty face

Ease of use has taken on new significance in the commercial and technical environments due to the real productivity and cost savings that can be realized with AIX/6000 3.2. Even with all the function and capability provided in AIX/6000 3.2, its presentation to the user can be simplified by the optional AIXwindows^(r) Environment/6000 product, based on the industry-standard X Window System with OSF/Motif.(tm) This graphical user interface (GUI) is then exploited by other system facilities such as SMIT and InfoExplorer to yield a much more user-friendly operating environment. AIX/6000 3.2 provides a desktop manager to represent files and applications in icon format and Display PostScript^(r) to permit PostScript^(r)-quality fonts, text and documents to be displayed on the screen.

Feature/Benefit

Selective kernel extensions

• Provide a portable set of flexible tools and facilities that improves development and performance of network communications

Bourne, Korn and C shells

• Give you three different interfaces and ways to write shell scripts

SAA/AIX interoperability

• Boosts productivity by allowing SAA and UNIX users to work together

AIX Network Management/6000

• Provides connectivity between RISC System/6000 POWERstations(tm)/ POWERservers(tm) and IBM's SNA network management products
• Gives you interoperability with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) products from various TCP/IP network management vendors

Conformance with major open systems (IEEE 1003.1 1990, ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990, FIPS 151-1, XPG3)

• Ensures that a wide range of applications can be easily ported to AIX Version 3.2 standards
• Provides a common interface for basic system services and data interchange

Broad range of networking protocols (TCP/IP, NFS, X.25, Asyn, SDLC UUCP, etc.)

• Allow you to interact with (share files, printers, disk space, etc.) other systems

Support for new grayscale, 2D and 3D graphics processors

• Gives you the capability to produce sharp 2D and 3D renderings and images at three distinct performance levels

Enhanced AIXwindows Environment/6000 Version 1.2.4

• Provides a state-of-the-art graphical user interface based on the latest versions of X Window System(tm) (11.4) and OSF/Motif (1.1)
• Includes support for Display PostScript and Graphics Library

Virtual memory management

• Lets you exploit the large virtual address space available in all RISC System/6000 models

Virtual terminal support

• Provides convenient access to several simultaneous interactive applications&ndash.all from a single display

AIXwindows Interface Composer/6000 V 1.1.1

• Assists you in designing a graphical user interface for different applications

Advanced file system

• Gives you fast access to data by mapping entire file structures to the virtual memory of your POWERstation/POWERserver

graPHIGS(tm) interface and graphics

• Provide powerful programming support for the interactive graphics of complex solids primitives modeling applications

Realtime processing capabilities (priority scheduling, preemptive kernel, process prioritization)

• Support realtime applications like online transaction processing and computer-integrated manufacturing

Enhanced versions of Hypertext Information Base and InfoExplorer

• Allow you to easily and quickly retrieve text and graphics
• Assist you in creating customized documentation

TCB C2-level security

• Helps prevent unauthorized access to, and use of, files and data

Support for a variety of compilers and development toolkits (FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada, C, C++ and COBOL)

• Permits you and your programmers to translate and program a wide variety of applications
• Allows you to use the same programming and debugging procedures in several environments
• Helps applications run more efficiently

XL C Compiler/6000 Version 1.2

• Provides improved optimization for efficient utilization of instruction set
• Generates portable C compiler-style messages as default

Complete text formatting system (Nroff, Troff, TBL, etc.)

• Gives you the ability to produce a variety of quality documents, including business and technical reports, journal articles, books and reports formatted for printers and phototypesetters
• Allows you, through xpreview function, to preview Display PostScript documents before printing

AIX Personal Computer Simulator/6000 Version 1 Release 2

• Lets you run IBM DOS applications on your POWERstation/POWERserver without modification
• Provides resizable VGA windows
• Increases your media options through support for the IBM Internal CD-ROM Drive

Improved disk space management

• Allows you to extend configured logic volumes to span multiple physical disk units
• Lets you add or remove system physical disk units and automatically maintain copies of mirror information at the logical-volume level

AIX System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)

• Helps you manage software migration, performance tools, language environment, new devices and software applications via a character or GUI interface
• New Motif Interface

Expanded National Language support

• Gives you the ability to operate AIX Version 3.2 in many different countries by using native standards and conventions
• Allows you to manipulate different required coding schemes and code sets

AIX Version 3.2 for RISC System/6000 at a glance

Operating system

• X/Open XPG3
• POSIX ANSI IEEE 1003.1-1990, FIPS PUB 151-1, ISO 9945/1-1990
• USL UNIX System V Release 3.2
• 4.3 BSD compatibility
• IEEE 754-1985 Floating-Point Standard
• Facilities designed to meet U.S. government TCB C2 security

Languages

• ANSI C X3.159-1989, ISO/IEC 9899-1990(E), SAA(tm) C Level 2 definition
• FORTRAN-ANSI X3.9-1978, FIPS PUB 69-1, ISO 1539-1980(E)
• COBOL-ANSI X3.23-1985, FIPS PUB 21-2, ISO 1989-1985 (High Level); ANSI X3.23-1974 (High Level); FIPS PUB 21-2-COBOL
• Pascal-ANSI 770 X3.97-1983, FIPS PUB 109, ISO 7185-1983
• Ada-ANSI/MIL STD 1815 A-1983, FIPS PUB 119, ISO 8652

User interfaces

• C, Bourne and Korn shells
• OSF/Motif Version 1.1.4
• AIXwindows Desktop 3.2
• X Window System Version 11 Release 4 and Release 5
• CGI-ANSI X3.161, ISO 9636; FIPS Pub 160 (Certified); ANSI C X3.159-1989; ISO/IEC 9899: 1990
• CGM-ANSI X3.122-1986, FIPS PUB 128
• GKS-ANSI X3.124-1985, FIPS PUB 120, ISO 8805-1988
• GKS FORTRAN Binding, ANSI X3.122.1, ISO 8651-1
• GKS Ada Binding, ANSI X3.122.3, ISO 8651-3
• GKS Pascal Binding, ANSI X3.122.2, ISO 8651-2
• GKS C Binding, ANSI X3.122.4, ISO 8651-4

Communications

• TCP-RFC 793
• IP-RFC 791
• SNMP-RFC 1065, RFC 1066, RFC 1098
• SMTP-RFC 821 and 822
• TELNET-RFC 854, 855 and 856
• FTP-RFC 959
• IEEE 802.3 and 802.5
• NFS 4.0
• X.25-FIPS PUB 100
• SNA LU 0, 1, 2, 3 and 6.2; PU Type 2.1

Bringing technology to bear

AIX/6000 3.2 continues IBM's commitment to incorporate the latest in hardware and software technologies into the AIX/6000 and RISC System/6000 product lines. Support for advanced hardware I/O devices, such as CD-ROM, disk arrays, SCSI-2 differential FDDI and HIPPI architectures has been added. Enhanced compilers, ISO code sets and networking services are some of the many incremental software advances that have been adopted.

Through IBM research, development and alliances, AIX/6000 is poised to take advantage of many new emerging technologies such as Objects, Multimedia, and OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

Room to grow

What does AIX/6000 3.2's extendable, pageable preemptive kernal mean to you? The answer is scalability. On a hardware level, the very structure of AIX/6000 3.2 makes it adaptable across the broad range of systems present in today's business enterprise. From a capacity standpoint, the system design accommodates heavy throughput requirements, such as those found in the On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments in many of today's companies. From a global business point of view, AIX/6000 3.2 is structured as a single worldwide operating system with extensive national language support (NLS).

The bottom line: AIX/6000 3.2 is a platform that will grow with your systems, your applications and your business, protecting your investment.

Ready for prime time

One of the most significant aspects that sets AIX/6000 apart is its reflection of IBM's experience in, and commitment to, the business environment. That experience dictates that before an operating system can be applied to the commercial environment, it must be reliable, have ever-increasing levels of availability and provide serviceability through its design and support structure.

Reliability of the system is ensured both through in-house functional testing as well as through rigorous customer-environment tests in a mixed-vendor environment with both UNIX and non-UNIX systems. Numerous customer applications are used to simulate real situations.

System availability is ensured both through the basic features, such as Logical Volume Manager, and through support for high-availability configurations, such as those employing the High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing/6000 (HACMP/6000) Licensed Program Product.

Service and support have long distinguished IBM in the business environment. The very reliability and serviceability features of the AIX/6000 product, coupled with the best software and hardware support organizations in the industry, and supplemented by a host of systems integration and support services, demonstrate IBM's commitment to the AIX/6000 product family.

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Network File System and NFS are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. PostScript and Display Postscript are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. X/Open is a registered trademark of X/Open Company, Ltd.

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Graphics Library and GL are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. Network Computing System and NCS are trademarks of Apollo Computers, Inc. Open Software Foundation and OSF are trademarks of Open Software Foundation. OSF/Motif is a trademark of The Open Software Foundation. POSIX is a trademark of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. X Window System is a trademark of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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