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- IBM INTRODUCES OS/2 EXTENDED SERVICES
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- LAS VEGAS, October 21, 1991 . . . IBM today announced Extended
- Services for OS/2* and Extended Services with Database Server for
- OS/2. These products expand user alternatives for implementing a wide
- variety of business applications across IBM and other selected hard-
- ware vendor platforms. Also announced was Distributed Database
- Connections Services/2 (DDCS/2), a new product for connecting work-
- station databases to host databases.
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- The Extended Services products contain enhancements to the Database
- Manager and Communications Manager components which were previously
- available in OS/2 Extended Edition 1.3 and run on either OS/2 2.0 or
- OS/2 Standard Edition 1.3.
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- Communications Manager's new functions include integrated Peer-to-Peer
- Networking (APPN) support for both End- and Network-nodes, enhanced,
- host-based NetView administration of remote servers and workstations,
- and allows many of the Token-Ring LAN functions to run on installed
- coaxial cabling. Additional new functions include the SAA programming
- interface for communications (CPIC) and support for the Network Device
- Interface Specification (NDIS), a de-facto standard for attaching
- network interface cards.
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- Important new Database Manager functions include the addition of
- forward recovery, database administration tools and state-of-the-art
- problem management called First Failure Support Technology/2. In
- addition to the existing OS/2 and DOS database clients, Database
- Manager also supports a new NETBIOS OS/2 client and a new Windows**
- database client.
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- Extended Services for OS/2 is intended for use on a standalone work-
- station. Database Manager users can create databases on their own
- workstation, as well as use their workstation to access a remote data-
- base server on a host.
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- IBM Extended Services with Database Server for OS/2 includes the
- features and functions of the standalone product as well as providing
- the Database Server function for remote clients. It also provides the
- new Distributed Feature which allows DOS, Windows or OS/2 Database
- clients to run on a LAN. The Database client code has also been
- rewritten to run faster and requires less memory.
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- Created to complement Extended Services, IBM SAA Distributed Database
- Connections Services/2 (DDCS/2) is available in a single-user or a
- network configuration. It allows Database Manager users (and supported
- OS/2, DOS and Windows applications) to access host relational data-
- bases conforming to the Distributed Relational Database Architecture
- (DRDA).
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- In addition to appropriately configured PS/2* models, IBM will support
- Extended Services on selected hardware vendor products.
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- Generally available in April 1992, the one-time license fee for
- Extended Services for OS/2 is $595 and Extended Services with Database
- Server for OS/2 is $1,995. The Distributed Feature that provides
- Database Client Application Enablers is $75 per client workstation.
- The DDCS/2 single user license is $500; $4,680 for a multi-user.
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- * OS/2 and PS/2 are trademarks of the International Business
- Machines Corporation.
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- ** Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
-