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Conference iosg::all-in-1

Title:	ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Please spell ALL-IN-1 correctly - all CAPITALS!
Moderator:	IOSG::PYECE

Created:	Fri Jul 01 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2716
Total number of notes:	12169

2600.0. "AIDA Server startup problems" by KERNEL::BURDENI () Wed Apr 02 1997 12:39

    In case someone else happens upon this,
    
    A customer was using ALL-IN-1 3.1, and was getting AIDA Server access
    violations.  This occured everytime the server was started after
    the weekend Housekeeping jobs were run.  The server could then be
    started manually without problem.
    
    The customer considered this to be a performance issue, as he had
    experienced similar problems with VMS startups. (Working fine after
    after everything else had started).  He modified the
    OA$LIB:SM_AIDA_START_SERVER.COM and added a WAIT 00:02:00 as the
    first command.
    
    He has not had an error since.
    A happy tail I think you will agree.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2600.1	Is this the DDS lookup problem?	IOSG::PYE	Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice	`Wed Apr 02 1997 15:37`	3
	Are they using DDS? This may be the problem that we've recently patched where looking up the DDS Area Route fails. Look for notes by Elin about this.
2600.2	Yes and cannot find anything.	KERNEL::BURDENI		`Mon Apr 07 1997 14:56`	5
	Can you be more specific about the Notes by Elin, I have had a look and did not see anything which was pertinant. Have I missed something ? (Yes they are using DDS). Ivan
2600.3	Any help?	IOSG::STANDAGE	My hovercraft is full of eels	`Mon Apr 07 1997 17:43`	17
	Ivan, The problem was thought to be the fact that a number of AIDA servers were being started simultaneously, and all of them were (at about the same time) invoking the ALL-IN-1 image to determine the value of the DDS area route (via a symbol). The fix in V3.2 was to change the AIDA Startup procedures, and obtain this value from an OA$ logical instead. This of course also speeded up the overall AIDA startup somewhat. There wasn't an official ICF for this, only possibly a paper patch supplied to the customer. I'm afraid that's all the details I have... -Kevin.
2600.4	I need another holiday....	IOSG::PYE	Graham - ALL-IN-1 Sorcerer's Apprentice	`Tue Apr 08 1997 11:34`	7
	I thought I remembered reading about the problem that Kevin has now described in this conference, but clearly I was dreaming! You'd better ask Elin directly if the fix worked for them. The change was to remove the code in SM_AIDA_START_SERVER.COM that ran ALL-IN-1 to get the OA$DDS_AREA_ROUTE special symbol, and instead set the DCL symbol DDS_AREA_ROUTE from an F$TRNLNM of OA$MTI_AREA.