topic Re: Info on DECset V12.7? in Operating System - OpenVMS

Info on DECset V12.7?

Galen Tackett — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:47:10 GMT

Has anyone had a look at the release notes for DECset 12.7? I'm guessing it's probably bug fixes and minor enhancements to support newer versions of VMS?

HP for some reason doesn't have the release notes on the DECset doc page at http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/decset.html (though I have e-mailed the DECset team suggesting this.)

Re: Info on DECset V12.7?

Ian Miller. — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:35:50 GMT

zipped release notes are on the way via email.

Re: Info on DECset V12.7?

Galen Tackett — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:34:09 GMT

Ian,

Got 'em. Thanks!

Galen

Re: Info on DECset V12.7?

Galen Tackett — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:34:25 GMT

As I expected, the DECset V12.7 release notes reveal that it is essentially a bug fix release. In my opinion the new features here and there are pretty insignificant, but YOMV (your opinion may vary :-) There are some fixes that might be really important to those who've stumbled over certain bugs.

LSE jumped from V4.x to V5.0, yet the only "new" features were:

1) A new version of the COBOL templates.
2) The example HTML and Java templates can now be built in to LSE at install time.

Perhaps the new number was just to get the IA64 and Alpha version numbers lined up?