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| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
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| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
1320.0. "DON'T CHANGE THE DATE FORMAT. DECMCC FAIL!" by MLNEDU::GIAMMARINI (Remember...you must die!!) Wed Aug 07 1991 09:12
I tried to activate the historian, the exporter and performance
analyzer over my VAXstation 3100 with DECmcc BMS V1.1, but I didn't
manage to do it. I tried to create and activate alarm rules, but I
didn't manage to do it.
In the first case, every time I started the exporter, the historian or
the performance analyzer, the message I gained was:
%MCC-E-INVALIDTIME, Invalid time specification
In the second case the command procedures for alarms notification
looped infinitely and no alarm were shown on the diplay.
At last I found the problem that caused all these things:
DON'T CHANGE THE DATE FORMAT ON YOUR SYSTEM!!!
DON'T USE THE LIB$DT_STARTUP AND ALL THE LOGICAL NAMES CONNECTED TO
CHANGE DATE FORMAT.
Of course I used the italian format and DECmcc failed. It wants the
american date format, nothing else...I don't know why, but that's.
Bye, Domenico
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| 1320.1 | Yup, it's an ALARMS bug... | TOOK::ORENSTEIN | | Wed Aug 07 1991 13:06 | 13 |
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Domenico,
Yes, ALARMS assumes a certain time format on the VMS V1.1 product.
The truth is that I didn't know of any time format other than the
VMS "American" time.
I will file a QAR against ALARMS.
Thanks for letting me know about this.
AUD...
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| 1320.2 | Not just an alarms problem | TOOK::GUERTIN | I do this for a living -- really | Thu Aug 08 1991 12:59 | 15 |
| Well, actually _all_ of MCC wants "American" time. It's extremely
unfortunate. The lower level time routines do the "right thing" and
call the right LIB$ date/time routines to support user-defined
(international) time formats. But since the SRM documents that only
the English format is allowed (and only the VMS style), the PMs and
most FMs must validate it. So I wrote a higher layer routines which
"expands" and validates the English format. This resulted in MCC only
supporting the English format. But things are getting more confusing
because, even the English format is not right. The ISO format is more
confusing (in my humble opinion), and is the "correct" long term
international standard. Sorry for the problems this has caused (and
will be causing). I believe this restriction is documented in the
release notes.
-Matt.
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