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              CONFIG LS 3.0 -- News of changes and additions.

Version 1.00 Changes from CNFGLS13

There are a lot of these.

1.  Additional questions on page 1 are included so some tuning
    can be done depending on whether you have the Advanced or the Entry
    server.
 #3 asks which you are using -- easy enough -- but watch out for #3a!

 #3a asks if FAT files are shared (if you are using the Advanced server)
     or it asks if HPFS files are shared if your are installing the
     Entry server.  Caching (CONFIG.SYS) statements change depending on
     your answers, so be carefull of the changing question!

 #3b asks if you are configuring a Domain Controller or an Additional
     Server.  A DC takes a bit more RAM with 3.0 than the AS.

 #11 While we are on memory requirements, the new OS/2 RIPL feature
     takes more server RAM than the DOS RIPL we have had in the past.
     So, question #11 has been Cloned!  11a wants to know if you have
     any DOS RIPL requesters, and 11b wants to know about any OS/2
     RIPL requesters.  That is all the new stuff on page 1.

2.  The second screen of questions is new and asks for information
    about your LAN adapter(s).  You may have none (and use the loopback
    driver) or you may have up to 4.  If you have adapters, they may be
    Token-Ring or EtherNet.  If they are Token-Ring, they may be 4Mbps
    16/4Mbps or Busmaster adapters.  If they are EtherNet, they may be
    from any of the manufacturers whose cards are supported.  Answer
    the questions and review the generated parameter recommendations.
    These appear in Column D - to the right of the questions (the same
    place all those pesky error messages show up.)

3.  Screen 4 has more error messages than before, but you still need
    to ensure you have a string of OK's displayed here before
    going on to the results.  OK, I know the last entry will say
    "None" if there are no warnings.  The OK's are the important things.

4.  There are several new error checks and error messages.  These
    should not make use of the tool harder, though.

5.  Note that some new fields are calculated.  Primary/ALTERNATE adapter,
    adapter buffer size and some NTS/2 parameters to name some.

6.  The Transmit Buffer Size recommendation changes depending on your
    adapter type.  Don't worry, it is not an error.

7.  I tried to include the new memory requirements, but these are taken
    from the documentation, and are not something I've tried out myself,
    so I don't swear by them.  You shouldn't either.  Use of this tool
    to find a minimum system is dangerous!  It will give minimum
    performance, and it may not run at all.

8.  You might notice that there are fewer assumptions made now.
    One that is important is that if you have a Busmaster TRN adapter,
    I assume it is the 32 bit adapter.  If you have the 24 bit version,
    you might have a problem.  The 24 bit adapter will not support
    memory over 16MB, but the spreadsheet might try to allocate cache
    there.  Your generated configuration won't work right.

9.  As indicated, the Work Area and the Error messages areas have grown.

10. There may be some blank lines at the bottom of the INI file that
    could make you think you have seen all the generated stuff.  Don't
    be fooled!  Page down through them until you see the END OF DATA
    message.  The blank lines would be used for configuring adapter
    cards (NIC's) you do not have.

11. At he very end (bottom) of the spreadsheet are the cache
    recommendations.  THESE REQUIRE MODIFICATIONS BY YOU.
    This may be just changing them to add the correct drive letters,
    but if you have other work to do, there will be messages that appear
    to tell you (123 users) what it is -- so read the messages!

It is possible to use CNFGLS13 on a 3.0 server, but use of CNFGLS30 will
probably give a better performing system.  Using CNFGLS13 can also
waste some memory.  Will run, though.

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Well, I intended to update this, but maybe not quite so soon.
If you know somebody who has the package but may not have subscribed
to it on MKTTOOLS, please let them know Version 1.01 is now current.

Two changes.

1. The IBMLAN.INI file's 'netx' line had 'lm10' specified.  This
   must be capitalized (LM10).  Now, all alpha characters in the 'NETx'
   line(s) will be caps.

2. The 'netbeui_nif' Sessions, Commands and Names in the PROTOCOL.INI
   file must be at least one greater than the IBMLAN.INI NETx line
   specifies.  Now, they will be.

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Well, another week and another set of changes.  I need to thank Ken
Whitfield and all the folks he got together with me so we could get
the input of the LAN Server and NTS development teams.  A few days
in a conference room generated a lot of detailed changes -- to many
to itemize here.  You'll see the differences, though, if you inspect
the results of a run at all.  This should give better performance than
other, earlier, versions of CNFGLS30, so make sure folks know about it!

So, here is Version 1.02

4/9/93

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Made it two weeks without an update!  Must be getting better at this.

These changes are all from user feedback on Prodigy and the OS2LAN CFORUM
so I thank you folks for the help!  After all, we're all in this together
and I sure DO need the help!

1)  I had an erro in calculating the 802.2 storage requirements that
    might have given you a message about not enough work area that you
    should not have gotten -- fixed.

2)  'Other NetBIOS Apps' resource requirements got added in to the LS
    NETx line(s).  Opps.

3)  I was only allowing 5 802.2 users.  Now, you can have 12.

4)  The multiple adapter area was not fully cleaned up when you set up
    for several adapters and then decided to see what would happen with
    fewer.  Now, I think everything you don't want to see disappears.

5) One user reported that the large number of maxsearches generated when
   DLR's were supported gave problems with printing.  Dunno, but I set
   the generated value down, and sent the note on to the developers who
   suggested the higher value.  Maybe we'll see a fix to LS30 someday
   and be able to increase it for those DOS apps that need higher values.
   If your apps need the bigger number (it will be 700 now), just change
   it in your INI file.  No other parameters are affected.

4/23/93

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Well, looks like it is time for 1.04.  Only a couple of things to change,
but there are over a thousand users of this tool that I know about, and I
certainly want to keep it as up-to-date as possible!  6 weeks with no
problems, but now I have 3 changes to make.

1.  You could get a recommendation for additional RAM when you had
    enough.  A bug calculated a bad cache size which was detected as
    being too small and (bingo) the recommendation popped out.
    Adding the recommended RAM would make everything work out fine.
    Looks like CNFGLS30 was trying to fix its own bug here, I dunno.

2.  The 123 version omitted the RUN= statement in the CONFIG.SYS
    recommendations to run the OS/2 Standard Edition (SE) cache.
    It has now been added.

3.  The Excel version specified this same cache should be loaded off
    the C drive.  Meant to say 'c' so you'd know to specify the drive
    where OS/2 was installed.  Finger check!  Changed it.

Had a request to make FAT DISKCACHE optional, but that generates
several problems.  Therefore, the recommendation is still there, but
you can just ignore it and add its value to the HPFS cache.  This only
applies to Entry server configurations using OS/2 SE HPFS on all drives.
FAT (and DISKCACHE) is optional for Advanced server configurations.

6/8/93

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OK, on to 1.05.  Discovered there were some notes posted where I cannot
see them that reported errors I knew nothing about.  Thanks to you who
pointed them out to me!  Fixed them and neatened up some other stuff.

1. Cell B75 was calculating the total number of NetBIOS Commands required
   incorrectly.  Have modified it to use the correct calculation, H14.

2. D28 and D33 calculated the MinRcvBuffs incorrectly on a 16Mbps Token-
   Ring if you used a LAN Streamer adapter.

3. M11 did not allocate enough 'maxconnections' for users of the
   Advanced server who also had FAT drives shared -- it allocated only
   one connection, now it allocates 4 per user.

4. A98 (C98 in 1-2-3 version), etc., could ask you to configure more than
   255 commands in a NETx statement and give you an error message which
   might be ignored.  Now, the maximum number of commands is taken
   from H23 and will not exceed 255.

5. B75 was the error message that could have been ignored -- it now
   you to H14 to see the total number of commands required.  Adding
   the recommended adapter card(s) can increase the performance of the
   server, so you might want to look into doing that!

6. The PROTOCOL.INI area (where you define the number and type of
   adapters) has been reworked, but you may notice no chcnges.
   Mainly, there are new/changed error messages in Col D.

1-2-3 users should make sure you check Columns D and E for some
Recommendations that you might be missing.  They may not display on
your screen.  Just ignore the 'mystery numbers' in E78-83, it is just
a work area I use for debugging.  A78-83 identifies them, if you care.

6/22/93 (First full day of Summer)

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As always, your notes and comments are welcome -- suggestions, too.
I can be reached on PRODIGY (BCJS75A or JUMP COMPUTER CLUB, see OS/2
topic, ASK IBM LAN subject.)  Or TOMGORDY at AUSVM1 for PROFS users.
Internet [e-mail]

TomG