This chapter describes the enhancements made to the Caché system management and development utilities.
Caché Configuration Manager
The new Configuration Manager features include:
Caché Control Panel
The Control Panel new features include:
Caché Server Manager
The Caché Server Manager contains additional security measures in Caché 5.0. You can no longer enter and store a username and password for the server when defining remote server connections on a client. If security is enabled on the server, you are prompted for username and password when you attempt to connect to the server.
You run the Caché Server Manager by clicking Add/Edit on the Preferred Server submenu of the cube. Please see Connecting to Remote Servers in the Caché System Administration Guide for more information.
Database Utilities
This release includes enhancements to the following database utilities:
New GBLOCKCOPY Routine
There is a new routine called GBLOCKCOPY which replaces the routine %GBLOCKCOPY. It rapidly copies globals from a database to either another database or namespace.
This routine has the ability to bundle several different copy operations into a batch, and execute them all at the same time using processes running in the background. It contains a new monitoring facility and easy to read summary and detail reports.
The GBLOCKCOPY utility can be used to transfer globals either from an 8-KB database to a 2-KB database, or from a 2-KB database to an 8-KB database.
Please see the Caché GBLOCKCOPY Routine article for detailed information.
System Utilities
The System Viewer utility has been removed from the product; use the Control Panel for the features previously in the System Viewer.
This release includes enhancements to the following system utilities:
New Restart Option
A new restart argument has been added to the ccontrol stop command for Caché UNIX and OpenVMS.
Using this parameter with the ccontrol stop command starts Caché after the shutdown procedure concludes successfully. If Caché is not running, no warning is issued, and Caché starts normally. Any arguments which are not for the stop function, such as nostu or a new configuration file name, are passed to ccontrol start for execution.
To see the most current available options, type:
ccontrol stop help
and
ccontrol start help
For help on other ccontrol options, type:
ccontrol help
Monitor Facility Renamed
The Caché monitoring facility routine previously called ^VPMON is now named ^PERFMON. The routine now contains additional help text for the menu and list of available custom fields. Code references to ^VPMON now point to the ^PERFMON routine.