Odd order of entries in ITRC patch browse list

[Sebastian Bazley]

The ITRC has an option to browse all the patches for a VMS platform and version.

The order in which the results are presented seems to be by descending date within ascending install rating. This is sensible, as the most recent most important patches come first.

However, for some reason the MASTER ECO list always appears part-way through the install_1 section. e.g at present it is between the dates 2005/10/27 and 2005/09/29.

Does anyone know the reason for this?

I would prefer it to appear in the "correct" place...

Can it (should it) be corrected?

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

There have been other discussions on this subject.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1020395
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1013228

The document is manually updated and someone forgot to change the sort date (as the master eco changes from time to time).

HP ?

Wim

[Sebastian Bazley]

I take it you mean that there is a hidden sort date attribute that is used by the sort?

BTW, the links you include were about errors in the ECO list contents, not its placement in the results - which I think is a separate issue..

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Mmm, the first link shouldn't have been posted.

"Updating the ALPHA_V732_MASTER_ECO_LIST is currently a manual operation and sometimes errors creep in".

I guess they updated an old file and forgot to update the "sortdate". It must be something like that because if the "postdate" was used, it should have been on the correct sequence.

Wim