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Title:VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:VAXAXP::BERNARDO
Created:Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:703
Total number of notes:3722

231.0. "Patch for INIT overwrites BACKUP/TAPE_EXP" by ASHAM::H_ANDERSSON () Thu Feb 20 1997 12:39

    
    Hi there,
    
    Please help me........
    
    One of my customer has stepped on a known BUG and I can't
    find the patch......if there is one.
    The bug is in VAX VMS V6.1 and it's the INIT-command overwriting
    a /REWIND/TAPE_EXPIRE date.
    
    I found a STARS-article:
    255-[OpenVMS] INITIALIZE Ignores Expiration Date on Magnetic Tape
    
    There's a workaround described in the article:
    
    > DIGITAL RESPONSE:                                                             
    >                                                                              
    > OpenVMS Engineering has acknowledged this problem and plans to address        
    > it in a future release.                                                       
    > \                                                                             
    > \                                                                             
    > \ NOTE TO SPECIALISTS:                                                        
    > \                                                                             
    > \ Engineering has provided 2 new images that can be used to fix this          
    > \ problem until an official patch is provided.  INIT$SHR_AXP.EXE and          
    > \ INIT$SHR_VAX.EXE can be found in: DOCROOT:[COMMON]. Copy the file           
    > \ you need to SYS$SHARE:INIT$SHR.EXE.                                         
    
    
    My question is: Is this problem fixed in a patch or is it the
                    workaround that is the solution ???
    
    If there is a patch, why is the article not updated ??
    
    /Hakan Andersson, CSC, Sweden
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231.1How To Get This InformationXDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringThu Feb 20 1997 13:317
   Check the internet patch area, and COMET and STARS, and if you are
   unable to locate an applicable patch, log an IPMT.  As for why the
   article hasn't been updated, submit a comment.  (I've been getting
   updates for various articles added to the databases -- there exists
   a very large volume of support articles, and there are few (no?)
   folks charged with purging and updating and cross-referencing them.)
231.2VAXINIT01_070ASHAM::H_ANDERSSONFri Feb 21 1997 07:4911
    
    Hi,
    
    We found the patch. We tried to search for INIT$SHR and
    got a hit.
    
    The name of the patch is VAXINIT01_070
    
    Thanks,
    
    /Hakan