topic 8.4 in Production. in Operating System - OpenVMS

8.4 in Production.

The Brit — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:03:59 GMT

We are working towards upgrading our production systems to OpenVMS 8.4.

Just curious. How many people have already done this? Particularly interested in hearing from sites running OpenVMS on blades.

If you have already done this or are considering it, would you be interested in sharing your experiences.

Dave.

Re: 8.4 in Production.

Shael Richmond — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:57:00 GMT

I've got three clusters running 8.4 in production and our development cluster. All the production machines are Itanium's but not blades.

Only a couple problems I've run into.
1) Parse settings must be traditional before running tcpip$config.
2) Submit won't allow special characters for the job name even with the /log parameter. (Worked in 8.3).

Production machines have been running since February and our development machine since December.

Re: 8.4 in Production.

Shriniketan Bhagwat — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:18:16 GMT

Hi,

I have seen some entries in the comp.os.vms. You can also search there.

Regards,
Ketan

Re: 8.4 in Production.

P Muralidhar Kini — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:53:42 GMT

Hi Dave,

Discussion on a similar topic -
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/General/OpenVMS-8-4/m-p/4694502#M18916

>> 2) Submit won't allow special characters for the job name even with the
>> /log parameter. (Worked in 8.3).
This problem has been fixed, refer the following thread for more details -
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Management/DCL-change-of-behaviour-with-8-4/m-p/5279554#M41411

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Murali

Re: 8.4 in Production.

The Brit — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:05:16 GMT

Shael,

Thanks for your reply. What platforms are you running 8.4 on??

My environment is bl860c Itanium blades, + one lonely Alpha.

Dave.