Product Install/List and lowercase ".pcsi" files

[Andreas Kaempfe]

Dear OpenVMS managers! After copying a PCSI-File to a ODS5 disk with a ".pcsi" extension I could not see this file with "$PRODUCT LIST *" or "PRODUCT INSTALL *". After I renamed it to "*.PCSI" the Product Installer worked fine and saw all the files. This happend on a OpenVMS 7.3-2 system, ODS5 disk and PCSI V0100 patch installed! So please take care with copying or renaming *.PCSI files on ODS5 disks!

[Anton van Ruitenbeek]

Andreas,

Did you do also $ SET PROCESS/CASE_LOOKUP=SENSITIVE ?
I Wouldn't do this !
This can solve a lot of problems.

AvR

[Lokesh_2]

Hi ,

As Anton pointed, give the following command and your product install will work.

$set process /case_lookup=blind.

I am attahing the relevant portion from online help:

************************************
SET

PROCESS

/CASE_LOOKUP

/CASE_LOOKUP=keyword


The valid keywords for this qualifier are BLIND and SENSITIVE.

Compaq strongly recommends that you use caution when enabling
case sensitivity.

Refer to the OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-1 New Features and
Documentation Overview for information on using this qualifier.
********************************


HTH,
Thanks & regards,
Lokesh Jain

[Brian Reiter]

Had similar issues with unzip. HP UK assure me its going to get fixed.

[Brian Reiter]

Should clarify that PCSI only seems to work with uppercase file names - the settings for case (blind or sensitive) don't seem to make any difference. We always run case=blind and hit the PCSI problems.

cheers

Brian

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Andreas, Brian,

This is definitely a bug.
Even if you have .PCSI files with the extension in uppercase, but the file name in either lowercase or mixed case, the PRODUCT LIST command cannot find the files.
And SET PROCESS/PARSE nor SET PROCESS/CASE change anything.

Someone better notify engineering, so they can come up with a fix.

Kris

[Craig A Berry]

This one's been kicking around for a while. See

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/asktima/operating_systems/CTI_SRC040128002091.html

It sounds like they may still not have it quite fixed yet.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

Hello Brian,

what problem with UnZip do you refer to? I use it with ODS-5 disks all the time without issues (maybe I'm just lucky). And sorry, I doubt that hp is working on a fix. They are not really involved with Info-Zip.

Greetings, Martin

[Brian Reiter]

Martin,

It could have been an older version of unzip. I was unclear on the first post - HP UK assure me that the PCSI problems are going to get fixed.

I find it slightly annoying having to rename files to upper case to ensure that some packages accept them.

cheers

Brian

[Jan van den Ende]

Brian,

I could even live with "some packages " if only their user guides would clarify,
but a _UTILITY_, yes, a _VMS_ ustility, intended to _MAINTAIN_ the OS (isn't that what patches are supposed to be doing?), __THAT__ should really be OS compliant for named OS, shouldn't it?

Personally, I absolutely rank this 'feature' as a "__B__U__G__"

Jan

[Willem Grooters]

Jan,

It's IS a bug - confirmed by engeneering....

Andreas (and others):
In the meantime, to be sure to overcome the limitation, you could use attached procedure to overcome it (rename first...)

Willem

[Andreas Kaempfe]

by the way I found out that lowercase characters in the first part of the PCSI file name are accepted. "dec-axpvms- .PCSI" will work. Only the file extension forces this BUG!