topic Re: Accesing PATCH Installation History in Operating System - OpenVMS

Accesing PATCH Installation History

Jack Trachtman — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:54:37 GMT

As far as I can tell, the PRODUCT cmd does not have an option to show the components of an installed UPDATE patch set.

How do others track which patches they've installed that are part of an UPDATE patch? (I presently use a spreadsheet, but would like to know if there is a way of producing a report from the system itself.)

Re: Accesing PATCH Installation History

Duncan Morris — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:00:16 GMT

Hi Jack,

it is certainly a bit of a problem!

What I have been doing, is checking SYS$HELP for the release notes. As the modern UPDATE kits include the release notes for all the patches which they contain, you can use them as a rough guide as to which components you have updated.

see attachment

Duncan

Re: Accesing PATCH Installation History

Peter Zeiszler — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:02:27 GMT

I extract the release notes from the update pcsi file. There is also a location on the web (HP Patch site) that shows which patches are included in the update and which are not.
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/search.do?BC=main|&pageOsid=openvms

Look for the master eco lists.

Re: Accesing PATCH Installation History

Ian Miller. — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:20:41 GMT

I use the master ECO list e.g for V7.3-2
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/ALPHA_V732_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt

It tells you what patches are included.

Re: Accesing PATCH Installation History

Jack Trachtman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:31:16 GMT

Thanks for the responses - looks like everyone does a manual cross check. Too bad the PRODUCT HISTORY cmd can't include the patch subcomponents.