ClearPath MCP Release 18.0: Ready to Help You Compete at the Highest Level

We are excited to announce the availability of ClearPath® MCP Release 18.0!

The newest major release of the system software for ClearPath Forward™ Libra systems and ClearPath Software Series products, MCP 18.0 delivers enhancements to a number of existing products, and introduces the brand-new Database Encryption product.

And, as with every new MCP software release, all of the products and features in MCP 18.0 have been designed, developed, and tested together, so you can trust they’ll deliver the performance and reliability your business-critical applications demand.

With ClearPath MCP Release 18.0, you’ll realize considerable benefits across three important areas:

• Application scalability
• Security
  
• Integration and interoperability

Application Scalability

With MCP 18.0, you’ll be able to make your applications more scalable, so you can:

• Significantly improve networking throughput
• Expand your transaction processing capabilities

Here’s how:

• TCP/IP Interprocess Communication Services: The re-architected TCP data path dramatically improves performance by offloading certain functions to the IOP firmware and NIC, offering a BNA over TCP service that can take advantage of this data path, and providing a new interactive configuration utility that enables TCP/IP connections to be configured independently of BNA.
  
• Remote Database Backup (RDB): With MCP 18.0, you can use TCP/IP as an alternative to BNA, enabling RDB to take advantage of improved TCP performance.
  
• Transaction Server (COMS): Transaction Server can now support up to 4,095 running programs – up from 2,047 in ClearPath MCP Release 17.0.
  
• dbaTOOLS Analyzer: Updates to the dbaTOOLS Analyzer product allow you to check the scans of all recent database snapshots for potential LimitErrors and then display or report on the results.

Security

With MCP 18.0, you can bolster the security of your environment by:

• Protecting sensitive data, including the data residing in Enterprise Database Server for ClearPath MCP (DMSII) databases, from unauthorized access and tampering
  
• Automating audit and regulatory compliance activities

Here’s how:

• Database Encryption: With this brand-new product, you’ll be able to safeguard DMSII data and become better equipped to address audit, regulatory, and privacy requirements by encrypting items that contain sensitive data in database files, memory, audit files, and dump files.
• SAN DataMover: In MCP 18.0, SAN DataMover can now read and write disks encrypted by MCP Disk Encryption.
• Secure Shell for ClearPath MCP: The updated Secure Shell for ClearPath MCP product supports AES128-CTR and AES256-CTR encryption algorithms, as well as the Tectia SSH and IpSwitch WS_FTP SFTP clients, includes an API that allows applications to send commands to other systems, and allows you to deliver output to redirected files.
• Web Enabler for ClearPath MCP: You now have the ability to use any previously entered Microsoft® Windows® credentials to automatically log in to an MCP system.
• Client Access Services: In MCP 18.0, you have the option to require NTLMv2 authentication when logging things like logins and access violations.
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP): The FTP server can now log the REMOVE and CHANGE commands, increasing traceability, while also restricting FTP/STARTUP file contents in order to prevent end users from overriding global security settings.
• Locum Software Products: MCP 18.0 includes updates to the following Locum Software products:
  
• Locum Safe & Secure: The product’s new AdminDesk Basic Edition is bundled in all MCP operating environment packages.
  
• Locum SafeSurvey: New reports in SafeSurvey include a software version report for SL, AI, and CFILE analysis, a Client Access Services report, and a PCI compliance report.
  
• Locum RealTime Monitor: RealTime Monitor removes the requirement for a separate PC when using the RealTime Service, and also offers MCP-centric syslog handling.
  
• Locum SecureAudit: SecureAudit now includes a port connections report, a DMSII transactions report, and an operator batch report with a SORT option, as well as an optional batch mode CSV output.

Integration and Interoperability

With MCP 18.0, you’ll build an environment that’s better equipped to:

• Combine business processes both within your organization and with external companies
  
• Reduce the requirements for MCP-specific skills, as well as the related costs

Here’s how:

• Client Access Services: Support for the SMB2 protocol enables better ongoing compatibility with new versions of Windows.
  
• Enterprise Output Manager: Offered along with MCP 18.0, Enterprise Output Manager 13.0 includes:
  
• Unisys Mobile EOM, which enables you to access and print files from mobile devices
  
• Integration with enterprise content management (ECM) solutions
  
• Built-in PDF printing
  
• Changes to the Web Assistant that allow you to integrate the Web Assistant client with applications, customize the web pages used to access files, and enable users to select, zip, and download multiple files
  
• Print System: In MCP 18.0, you have the option to use an LPR I/O handler to send output to an LPD print server.
• Operations Sentinel: Operations Sentinel 16.0 is included in MCP 18.0. The latest version of our automated system management tool features several noteworthy enhancements:
  
• The ability to send detected alerts as SNMP traps to other system management tools
  
• The flexibility to monitor ClearPath Forward ePortal systems from the same pane of glass you use to control your other ClearPath Forward components
  
• Configuration data recovery
  
• Automatic synchronization of configuration data between servers
  
• The ability for administrators to import and export alert policies along with configuration data
  
• Backups for policy data
  
• Compatibility with Microsoft Windows 10 and Microsoft Windows Server® 2016
• TCP/IP Interprocess Communication Services: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) enables your MCP system to automatically obtain IP addresses from a DHCP server, helping you avoid the need to manually configure IP addresses, while the Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) makes it possible for other systems to find yours by publishing its Host Name and IP addresses to domain name system (DNS) servers.
  
• SECURITYSUPPORT Library: With the “hot swap” capability, you’ll be able to update the SYSTEM/SECURITYSUPPORT library without restarting all message control systems linked to it.

Ready to Learn More?

Check out the MCP homepage to learn about the updates and enhancements included in MCP Release 18.0. And for even more information about what’s new in this release, be sure to check out the 21 technical videos included in the ClearPath MCP Release 18.0 Technical Update playlist. It’s available on YouTube and our support site. We also encourage you to watch the MCP 18.0 announcement webinar.

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