topic Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos in Operating System - OpenVMS

Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Dave Gudewicz — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:02:10 GMT

I noticed in recent readings that there are/were 2 ecos for Advanced Server v7.3.

We're running 1 Alpha with VMS v7.2-1 and until we can upgrade to a newer version, these ecos might come in handy.

I looked in all the places I know and couldn't find them.

Do they exist? Where?

TIA,

Dave...

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Ian Miller. — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:06:37 GMT

is this what you are looking for
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/alpha/ADVANCSERV-V0703-A3.txt

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/alpha/ADVANCSERV-V0703-A3.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Uwe Zessin — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:17:18 GMT

You only need to install the last ECO as they are not incremental.

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Dave Gudewicz — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:39:56 GMT

Ian,

I was aware of the Advanced Server v7.3A ecos, my question was regarding Advanced Server v7.3.

Dave...

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Martin P.J. Zinser — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:41:02 GMT

Hello Dave,

certainly somewhere inside hp, but not on any public place I could access (including the stale version of the patches at John's site in Australia).

If you have a service contract on these systems, your best bet seems to be to open a call with them.

Greetings, Martin

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Dave Gudewicz — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:26:17 GMT

Martin,

Thanks for the update. Wonder if this is by design or something else.

Perhaps Brad, if he's reading this can shed some light.

Dave...

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Paul Nunez — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:41:25 GMT

Hi,

v7.3 ecos aren't available on any public ftp site because v7.3 isn't really supported any longer. v7.3a basically replaced it, but v7.3a only runs on OpenVMS Alpha v7.2-2 and later (thus Dave's need for the v7.3 eco).

But we'll be glad to give you a copy Dave.

I'll send email offline with download instructions...

Paul

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Paul Nunez — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 05:43:04 GMT

Dave,

Can you post an email address I can send the instructions to?

Thanks,

Paul

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Brad McCusker — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:58:18 GMT

Hi Dave -

Paul has you covered.

For what its worth, we went through a spell where ECOs for Advanced Server were only available from the CSC, and, they only had very specific fixes. This was by design/necessity - we didn't want to divert resources away from V7.3A to do the full blown ECOs that would typically find there way to the ftp sites.

Why are you still running V7.3? V7.3A is far superior, and, now that they are up to V7.3A-ECO3, I have to believe it is very stable.

Brad

Re: Looking for Advanced Server v7.3 ecos

Dave Gudewicz — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:01:14 GMT

Paul,

david.gudewicz@NOSPAMabbott.com

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Brad,

We have an Alpha in a cluster with several Vaxen that are running VMS 6.2. Cluster SPD states that newer than VMS v7.2 is not supported with v6.2, therefore the questions about the Advanced Server v7.3 ECOs. We're actually cheating a bit by running VMS 7.2-1 on the Alpha, but that version of VMS is not supported for A.S. v7.3A.

If the A.S. v7.3 ECOs fixed specific problems, we probably don't need them and I understand 7.3A (eco 3) is the version to be at these days. That's our target.

Paul and Brad,

Thanks for your help.