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December 30, 2008

GT.M V5.3-003 adds useful additional functionality

Update: V5.3-003 software was redistributed on January 14, 2009 owing to a minor error in the distribution files that affects the utf8 subdirectory. If you downloaded and installed the previous distribution files, there is no need to repeat the process. See below for details on making a small correction manually.

V5.3-003 is a new GT.M release with useful additional functionality. Complete details are in the release notes.

Highlights include:

IO to a process. A GT.M process can now OPEN a process, WRITE to that process and READ from that process. For the simplest usage, application code can now write directly to, say, the lpr command to send output directly to a print spooler without the need for a temporary intermediate file. For a more complicated example, you can use an external program like iconv to translate between encodings of strings by writing to its STDIN and reading from its STDOUT. Details are in the technical bulletin.
ZSHOW now supports a new code "G" that reports per process global variable statistics (great for performance measurement, tuning and benchmarking).
Optional compression of the replication stream using the standard zlib library.
Full support for Mapped Memory (MM) database access.
A permanent fix to the buffer overflow security vulnerability.

GT.M licensees with active support agreements should contact GT.M support for the current password to the FTP site. On selected platforms, the software can also be downloaded and used under the terms of the Affero GNU General Public License v3 from Source Forge. FIS Profile licensees should contact their normal Profile support channel.

When downloading software, please verify the checksums before installation. For software downloaded from the FTP site, the cksum checksums (checksum on OpenVMS) for the files are:

x86 GNU/Linux
4201541076 314069 dbcertify_V53003_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz
175748727 5331029 gtm_V53003_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz

x86_64 GNU/Linux
2707004351 326220 dbcertify_V53003_linux_x8664_pro.tar.gz
734939111 5582238 gtm_V53003_linux_x8664_pro.tar.gz

Sun SPARC Solaris
2523015015 481485 dbcertify_V53003_solaris_sparc_pro.tar.gz
1390811466 16364303 gtm_V53003_solaris_sparc_pro.tar.gz

IBM pSeries AIX
2535102766 194703 dbcertify_V53003_aix_rs6000_pro.tar.gz
2431964886 11867688 gtm_V53003_aix_rs6000_pro.tar.gz

HP PA-RISC HP-UX
3755124996 434282 dbcertify_V53003_hpux_parisc_pro.tar.gz
260146440 7796990 gtm_V53003_hpux_parisc_pro.tar.gz

HP Itanium Linux
2577271061 381630 dbcertify_V53003_linux_ia64_pro.tar.gz
3278080927 6596326 gtm_V53003_linux_ia64_pro.tar.gz

HP Itanium HP-UX
2334218622 990621 dbcertify_V53003_hpux_ia64_pro.tar.gz
2988393589 14882652 gtm_V53003_hpux_ia64_pro.tar.gz

HP Alpha/AXP Tru64 UNIX
25622402 467025 dbcertify_V53003_osf1_alpha_pro.tar.gz
1937964877 7461636 gtm_V53003_osf1_alpha_pro.tar.gz

HP Alpha/AXP OpenVMS
GTCD53003.A : checksum = [1767203067]
GTCM53003.A : checksum = [381042757]
GTDC53003.A : checksum = [3997038703]
GTM53003.A : checksum = [1449176647]
GTM53003.B : checksum = [2491885895]
GTM53003.C : checksum = [1449176647]

From software downloaded from Source Forge, the cksum results for the files are:

x86 GNU/Linux
228696072 326023 dbcertify_V53003_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz
2278950584 5345289 gtm_V53003_linux_i686_pro.tar.gz
3144226076 3004748 gtm_V53003_linux_i686_src.tar.gz

HP PA-RISC Tru64 UNIX
3025555722 479889 dbcertify_V53003_osf1_alpha_pro.tar.gz
3726363309 7481168 gtm_V53003_osf1_alpha_pro.tar.gz
231837023 2978348 gtm_V53003_osf1_alpha_src.tar.gz

HP Alpha/AXP OpenVMS
2507347574 5881573 gtm_V53003_openvms_alpha_pro.zip
1431351483 4222595 gtm_V53003_openvms_alpha_src.zip

If you previously downloaded the original software distribution

The original software distribution did not establish a needed symbolic link from the utf8 subdirectory to the gtmsecshr subdirectory of the parent directory in which GT.M is installed. If you previously downloaded the original software distribution, and verified the checksum from those below, there is no need to again download and install GT.M. If you are not using the Unicode features of GT.M, and no utf8 subdirectory was created by the GT.M installer, no action is needed on your part. If however a utf8 subdirectory was created by the GT.M installer, please execute the following command ($gtm_dist refers to the directory in which GT.M V5.3-003 is installed; note the trailing period in the command):

cd $gtm_dist/utf8 ; ln -s ../gtmsecshr .

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