Re: VMS732_UPDATE-V0600,VMS732_MQ-V0400,VMS732_DDTM-V0100 and required features

Phillip,

This is a part of the New HP. It's not like the good old days with DSNLink
and Digital and CSC.

The way HP/VMS engineering is working these days,

(1) they are releasing a "roll-up" kit every six months (a good thing,
IMHO);

(2) they are making subsequent patches dependent on the most
recent rollup (UPDATE) kit (a necessary feature, good or not); and

(3) they've probably put in one or two patches (such as MQ) which
might not be mandatory, but we have to live with the new reality.

Will this new method of patching de-stabilize VMS? I can't say.
I am a bit unhappy that some patches, like the most SYS patch
for VMS732, has a lot of patches rolled into it. Again, whether
this is good, or bad, is a matter of experience; only time will tell.

And, no word on the fate of the INSTAL kit, either.

I'm hoping that the new PCSI kit fixes some of the corruption
issues we've had with the PCSI data base, which must have
been terrible if you got hit by it.

Sigh.

Carl Friedberg

On 3/11/06, Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply
<helbig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just downloaded VMS732_SYS-V0900.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE and
VMS732_PCSI-V0200.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE and had a look at
VMS732_UPDATE-V0600.txt. I came to the conclusion that I don't need to
install VMS732_UPDATE-V0600 since I have already installed, individually
or as parts of previous update kits, all of the patches I need. There
are a couple I don't need, namely VMS732_MQ-V0400 and VMS732_DDTM-V0100.
However, in the descriptions of these patches, there are certain
products which are mentioned as REQUIRED features, namely in the former
case IBM MQseries and in the latter case DECDTM,RDB,ACMS,XA.

Either these are not really features which are required for the patch to
be installed or these patches should not be part of an update kit, which
"should be installed by all customers".

I suspect the former is the case, i.e. these features are not "required"
in order to install the patches, but rather there is no point in
installing them if one does not have these features. Is that really the
case?


.

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