VAX/VMS 5.5H2 patch kits

[Ayya]

I am looking for patch kits for VMS 5.5H2.
Customer is having problems using Backup on a SCSI based tape.
I am told that there is patch to fix the system doing a bugcheck using the backup.

[Volker Halle]

Sini,

welcome to the OpenVMS ITRC forum.

Old OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2 or V5.5-2H4 patches can only be found on the old OpenVMS patch pages from the CSC in Sidney, Australia:

http://ftp.support.compaq.com.au/

For V5.5-2H4 patches look at:

http://ftp.support.compaq.com.au/pub/ecoinfo/ecoinfo/v552h4.htm

You would want to look at SCSI patches like VAXSCSI03_061. Carefully check prerequisites and dependencies for those old patches.

Volker.

[Ayya]

Volker,
Thank you very much for the information.

Regards,
Sini

[Dale A. Marcy]

I located the vaxback4_u2055 by looking on the ITRC at:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

At the bottom of that page, I clicked on the find archived patches. Then I clicked on the OpenVMS for VAX: 5.X and scrolled through the resulting list.

[Ayya]

I got the kit in DCX format.

Now I need the utility to read thest files on VMS 5.5 .

thanks for the help.

Sini

[Dale A. Marcy]

You should be able to just run the kit on VMS and it will extract the saveset files. The only problem would be if they kitted the file on a newer version of VMS and the run command fails, but hopefully that is not the case.

[Ayya]

Once again thanks for the prompt and helpful information.

Will be at the customer site tomorrow and I will try it.

Sini

[comarow]

You can also download them from
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/
even without a contracts!


I prefer the FTP sites.