i64 OpenVMS 8.2 patches

[Jorge Cocomess]

Hi Hoff,

We do have contract with HP, therefore, I will try pull it down from there. Otherwise, I will order the media kit from our vendor.

Where you have the link to the FTP site?

Thanks so much!!

Jorge

[Hoff]

I do not immediately recall the path to the OpenVMS I64 download files, but I believe it's around here somewhere; somewhere here amid the ITRC site. Somewhere. Mayhap the Software Update Manager (SUM) stuff?

Here is the ITRC SUM link:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/sum/home.do

At least at one time, there was a second and different FTP site for the OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX downloads. That was elsewhere. (I'd not be surprised to learn the sites were eventually to be be consolidated.)

The nice folks at the HP support center will very likely know the direct and official path here at ITRC or over at the other site, and should also be able to provide you with the requisite username and password.

[Mong Wisnhu Wardhana]

Hi all,

My customer would like to have info about patches for Daylight Saving Time (DST)required for Layered Product Softwares of the following OpenVMS Versions:
- V7.3-2
- V8.2
- V8.2-1
Please advise where I can find the list.
Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Mong

[Hoff]

Start here:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/dst.html

read here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1097157

read here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1096296

read the time and timekeeping (and pointers to the ECO area, etc) here:
http://www.hoffmanlabs.com/vmsfaq/

For Java, read here:
http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/alpha/DST-US.html

ECOs are here:
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/

There are other discussions here in ITRC, and at other sites.

Stephen Hoffman
HoffmanLabs

[Mong Wisnhu Wardhana]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Mong

[Jorge Cocomess]

Hoff,

Do you still need to applied this patch even though I setup the time manually??

Please let me know. Thanks!!

Jorge

[Hoff]

My personal preference and recommendation?

I would load the TZ patch. Even if I were manually adjusting the time for the switch-over between standard and daylight saving time. I have loaded TZ, and will likely be loading the Canadian-Rules ECO even though the servers involved are not located in Canada, [insert xdelta prompt here].

The timezone definitions handle more than just the switch-over itself. Applications using various of the time-related queries will be off by an hour for part of the year, and I'd want to investigate and test for the "off by an hour" buglet case that has cropped up often enough to be featured in the FAQ. This case has some applications showing one time, and other applications showing a different time. Usually differing by an hour; by the local value for the DST switch-over.

The US has been blissfully unaware of the frequency of TZ changes world-wide. These changes happen with regularity. OpenVMS Engineering has traditionally pulled down a new set of TZ rules for each new OpenVMS release.

Though I have no inside information, it would not surprise me to see additional changes to the US TZ rules. Australia has seen two or three DST changes over the past ten years. The last round of (major) US DST-related changes lasted from Carter through Reagan, IIRC. But I digress.

I would apply the TZ ECO. Even with manual switch-over performed locally using SYS$MANAGER:DAYLIGHT_SAVINGS.COM, or otherwise.

[Jorge Cocomess]

great. I will pull down the patch and applied to my VMS servers.

What version of VMS are you running? I am running version 7.3-2 on an ES45 - Would you have the exact patch name?

Thank you!

[Hoff]

Want help managing this OpenVMS system, or wish a support backstop? (I'm inferring (possibly incorrectly) that you're not entirely comfortable with OpenVMS.) Here in ITRC, I and the other folks can only answer the questions you ask -- there may well be other ECOs that need to be applied here. Contacting HP Services or another support organization can help work through the list of ECOs that your specific site needs.

As for your most recent question, the ECO for OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2 is the current VMS732_TZ kit, or its replacement. Right now, it looks to be VMS732_TZ-V0300, but that could and almost certainly will change. This TZ ECO will likely get rolled into the next UPDATE kit, for instance. As for prerequisite ECO kits, you'll need the PCSI and UPDATE ECO kits, if you don't already have those loaded.

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_TZ-V0300.ZIPEXE
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_TZ-V0300.txt

The minimal ECO kit you need is listed here:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/dst.html

For Java, read here:
http://h18012.www1.hp.com/java/alpha/DST-US.html

The ECOs are accessible in the following FTP area -- the Master Listing of ECOs -- the Master Listing is a text file you can download for each release, and can see which ECOs are considered mandatory for that release by the nice folks at HP -- is also present in the release directory:
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/

FWIW, with a couple of COPY/FTP commands, you can pull over the entire directory of FTP kits and then pull over the entire selection of text files. And work with it all locally. (The ITRC FTP server is seemingly always rather slow.)

Stephen Hoffman
HoffmanLabs