topic Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI? in Operating System - OpenVMS

Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Cass Witkowski — Mon, 15 May 2006 15:35:09 GMT

Is there any way to purge the history information for PCSI. For example now that I'm on OpenVMS V7.3-2 I really don't need to see all the patches I installed for V7.3

The output for PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY * can get rather vebose.

Thanks

Cass

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

John Gillings — Mon, 15 May 2006 17:10:35 GMT

Cass,

I don't think there's a way to purge or archive the data, BUT you can limit the output of SHOW HISTORY using qualifiers. See:

$ HELP PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY

For example

$ PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY */SINCE=1-JAN-2005

or

$ PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY */VERSION=7.3-2

or

$ PRODUCT SHOW HISTORY */OPERATION=INSTALL

It looks like it would be useful to have a feature that says "ignore any INSTALL which has also been REMOVEd". If you have a service contract, perhaps log a case to request an enhancement?

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Ian Miller. — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:33:14 GMT

another way of requesting that feature is to submit an issue at
http://www.hpuseradvocacy.com/

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:37:48 GMT

I once wrote the thing John suggests.
See enclosure.

Wim

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Dave Laurier — Tue, 16 May 2006 04:46:04 GMT

Wim,

I tried it because I would also like to have something like this and then be able to decide which patches need to be installed. However with the given example I guess you have to:

either define the symbol d somewhere
OR replace the d "..." with write sys$output.

Other than that, nice :-)

Regards,

Dave

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 16 May 2006 05:58:00 GMT

Oeps. That's part of my environment.
d := write sys$output

Better would be to consolidate everything, including things installed with vmsinstal.

And eliminate kits that are overruled.

A bit in the style of John's ex-patch-website ...

Wim

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Cass Witkowski — Tue, 16 May 2006 11:02:50 GMT

I have logged a call and asked that this be a future enhancement to OpenVMS.

Re: Any way to purge history information for PCSI?

Jan van den Ende — Tue, 16 May 2006 13:33:01 GMT

Cass,

if that gets trough the acceptance procedure, (you will be notified) report back here asking for "I agree"'s.
I promise you mine already.

Proost.

Have one on me (perhaps at the Bootcamp in Nashua?)

jpe