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65.0. "working problems registered ??, please help" by MANUF::MRAZEK () Mon May 14 1990 15:33

From:	COPCLU::NJENSEN      "Regards Niels Jensen, Denmark" 14-MAY-1990 12:55:44.58
To:	MANUF::SUPPORT
CC:	NJENSEN
Subj:	U: URGENT: Error in VAX-SIMATIC-S5

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                                        Sendt:     14-maj-1990 12:56CET
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Emne: U: URGENT: Error in VAX-SIMATIC-S5

       
       Hi,
       
       One of our customers, LIC Consult in Denmark, have bought the ASSET 
       called VAX-SIMATIC-S5. Unfortunately they have identified an error 
       in the ASSETS, which is why they have send me a FAX with the 
       description of the problem.
       
       Please find attached FAX from our customers, which hopefully is 
       sufficient information in order to give him a solution.
       
       After receiving the FAX I called the customer for further 
       information, but where unable to help him. When the problem occurs 
       the process start idle and nothing happens.
       
       Besides this essential problem, he also mentioned another issue. It 
       seems that VAX_SIMATIC-S5 sends some messages to the system console, 
       which the customer find annoying. Therefore he asks if it's possible 
       to send these messages into a separate file or similar ?
       
       OK, that's all I've got. Please read attached information from our 
       customer and mail me soonest with your feedback. As the complete 
       system has to go to 'production' next week we would appreciate to 
       hear from you ASAP - also with some status information and contact 
       name etc.
       
       As I hope for your kind attention and response,
       
       	    Best regards from Copenhagen !!!
       
       	    Niels Jensen
       	    EIS/Manuf.
       	    DENMARK
       
       

Digital Equipment Corp.
Adalsvej 99
DK-2970 Hoersholm
DENMARK




RE.: Simatic S5 Driver in MicroVAX 3200
     Working problems registered from time to time

Please find enclosed informations concerning error functions to 
one of our programmes - the only one which is used for Simatic S5 
Driver. For no apparently reason the programme TCP sometimes wait 
for an event flag compared to enclosed copy of the proces 
condition (SHOW PROC/ID-XX/CONT). Apparently this event flag is 
never set.

LIC does not use event flag but calls the S5 procedure S5$QIOW.

The error is up till now only registered when the programme is 
running in the batch queue.

"Current PC" - 7FFEE44C leads into the VMS procedure SYS$CREATE, 
compared to enclosed map fil, which is called from a procedure in 
one of our libraries, but the wanted procedure NEW.HEAP in the 
module HEAP is not included the TCP programme.

It has not been possible to clearify whether S5$QIOW or under-
lying procedures are calling SYS$CREATE.

"The error" is maybe placed in either SYS$CREATE or in the S5 
procedure.


Best regards,

LIC Consult

-------------------- ATTACHED DOCUMENT -------------------------

Process batch 324:

State		:  LEF
Cur/base prio	:  3/3
Current PC	:  7FFEE440
Current PSL	:  03C00004
Current user SP	:  7FF07F010
PID		:  0000011E
UIC		:  [NAMREL]


Working set	   550
Virtual pages	   6882
CPU time	   00:03.70
Direct I/O	   36
Buffered I/O	   86
Page faults	   2453
Event flags	   60000004
		   80000000

    

      Re VAX-SIMATIC-S5.

      This problem is being solved with a direct contact with the customer. If
      there is interest then we will post the reply when it is available.

      Regards,
      Simatic support