Quick HP Integrity NonStop application migration

Course overview

This 1-day course provides you with the information you need to convert your applications to run on the new Integrity NonStop systems. The course starts with an overview of the new hardware architecture and then covers program migration information for each of the main languages. Other topics include the debuggers that are available on the new systems including the new Native Inspect debugger, the new linker, and the Enterprise Toolkit (ETK).

Prerequisites

• Concepts and facilities for NonStop systems (U4147S)
• Experience with programming languages

Audience

• System designers
• Application developers
• Support personnel

Ways to save

Course objectives

• Introduce Integrity NonStop servers
• Describe migration paths
• List discontinued products
• Convert C/C++, pTAL, COBOL application programs
• Describe the eld linker
• Describe the program debuggers available
• Discuss the changes to ETK

Benefits to you

• Introduction to NonStop Advanced Architecture
• Discontinued and obsolete products
• Changes needed for application programs
• The new eld linker
• The available debuggers
• Introduction to Native Inspect
• Changes to ETK
• Different migration paths

Course outline

• NonStop Advanced Architecture
• NonStop Blades
• Process execution modes
• Types of libraries
• Dynamic Link Libraries
• TNS/E Process execution environment
• Discontinued products and features

• COBOL, C/C++, pTAL compilers
• Obsolete compiler directives
• Changed compiler directives
• Execution time changes
• File name changes
• Conditional compilation
• New Guardian procedure calls

• Linking with eld
• eld inputs and outputs
• Linking multi-module programs
• Creating a DLL
• Examining an object file with noft
• Accelerating a non-native program

• Debugger selection
• Changes to Visual Inspect
• Native Inspect for C/C++
• Native Inspect for pTAL
• Inspect

• Project Wizard
• Project Properties
• Multiple platforms support
• PC based cross compilers

• System — An Integrity NonStop system running H06.02 or later release of the
  NonStop operating system
• Software — TNS/E native COBOL, epTAL, TNS/E, native C/C++, NonStop TS/MP, Visual Inspect, Enterprise Toolkit (ETK)