078-000273-16 - Stephen Merrony Music
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1. 1 AOS VS and many system programs in the root expect to find system files in a particular directory structure You should not rename system files or directories or create links to them If you do AOS VS may not work properly 2 There are patches in the directory UPDATE 7 71 which resolve problems in the following programs when run under revision 7 71 of AOS VS Program Name Patch Name FTA PR 5 30 FTA PR_PAT FTA PR 5 50 FTA PR_PAT SVTA PR 5 30 SVTA PR_PAT SVTA PR 5 50 SVTA PR_PAT TPMSCCP PR 3 51 TPMSCCP PR_PAT XTS PR 5 61 XTS PMGR RINGO PAT 3 There are patches in directory UPDATE 7 71 which enable certain options The patchkits apply to either the AOS VS system file or to one of the AOS VS program files Each patchkit includes a description of the option provided by the patchkit Filename Status 7 71 AOSVS_MV40000 DPF_ OPAT CHANGED 7 71 FILE ELEMENT SIZE OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 FLUSH BUFFERS OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 ROOT ACL OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 SEA BUFFERS OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 SEA ENTRIES OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _SYSCALL CHARGE OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _TUNPBLK OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _AOSVS_ DISCONNECT OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 AOSVS UACL OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _LPMGR PR_ORD_CR_OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _AGENT PR_GIGATAPE OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _XLPT PR_ HEADER OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 AOSVS DIR TLM OPAT UNCHANGED 7 71 _LPMGR PR_NO_ CONOLOG O2. AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 45 Remove the first volume and insert the volume labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA Vol 2 Press NEW LINE to begin loading the software from the second tape volume Proceed normally after the second volume has loaded Note that when using the OS SYSTEM MEDIA for any other purpose such as loading the default operator profile or starting from tape either volume may be used In the loading processes described above it is not critical that you load volume 1 before loading volume 2 only that you load them both p The SYSTAPE CLI macro that is included with your software and resides in the SYSGEN directory optionally produces two volumes that are equivalent to the two volumes of OS SYSTEM MEDIA You must use the TWO VOLUMES switch unless you have deleted or excluded some of the files that are supplied by Data General if you exclude some of the files on your disk from your customized system tape you will likely be able to fit everything on one volume d Bring up the system and log on as OP or sysmgr Since you copied UPD SYSMGR to UPD SYSMGR XXX the SYSMGR password is now SYSTEM MANAGER e If you copied any or all of the files UP CLI UPD SYSMGR or UPD OP then proceed with the following steps Enter the CLI from SMI by pressing NEW LINE twice from the SM
3. An EXECUTE S command was not returning the termination message in the STRING variable if another termination message was outstanding This has been fixed A D D D D sequence would terminate a CLI even if it had sons This has been fixed The message You have sons do you wish to terminate will be generated and the CLI will wait for a response AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 17 14 1 5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 A CX command would abort if the MAX switch came before the START switch on the command line This has been fixed Lexical comments in nested conditionals were being ignored This has been fixed The construct lt amp gt was sometimes not being treated as a literal amp instead the amp was being treated as a continu ation character This has been fixed Missing or errors were not being generated when they should Instead extraneous else errors were being generated This has been fixed Occasionally an invalid page error would be received after an EXECUTE S command followed by an X CLI command followed by another EXECUTE S command This has been fixed The TYPE switch on the QDISPLAY command was not properly restricting the QDISPLAY to queues of the specified typ This has been fixed When errors occurred during the execution of a VARx t
4. Some compared part number 085 000930 Refer to the AOS VS II 3 00 for the complete list Total RB RB Space Space Per Line 9684 402 4580 190 8976 560 4842 302 4404 136 3702 184 2842 128 1982 82 1122 42 262 8 insufficient memory insufficient memory 3642 112 2940 146 2080 94 1220 50 360 12 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update 14 lines 15 lines 16 lines LAC 12 no options ansi LMC no options ansi MCP1 no options ansi ITC128 and LTC64 no options ikis ii 100 lines ITC128A no options ikis ii 128 lines TAC8 3 no options IAC24 no options ikis ii LAC16 LAC32 and FCM32 no options ikis ii Integrated LAC16 no options ikis ii LMC8 no options ikis ii Integrated LMC8 no options ikis ii IWC 23 line no options ikis ii Notice Rev 7 71 Page 31 insufficient memory insufficient memory insufficient memory 16914 704 11810 492 20338 1270 16098 1006 20676 1292 16436 1026 81396 1270 33350 666 2879168 11246 2565048 10018 46240 2890 275680 11486 200056 8334 244716 7646 160868 5026 179180 5598 95332 2978 307872 19242 240472 15028 242336 15146 174936 10932 729928 30412 654304 27262 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 5 2 Warnings Ther ar no new warnings for AOS VS 7 71 Update warnings also applied to AOS VS 7 70 With AOS VS Terminal Services Sing related operating system ti
5. Su SYSDISK ETTE CLI macro ER ON lt NL gt SYSGEN lt NL gt ETTE lt NL gt The macro will copy STARTER SYS onto diskettes 1 For diskette then prompt you to it again 4 You first remov the macro will first dump PROFILI the diskette and can ignore this write a second VOL1 dump file remaining diskettes the macro will prompt you to diskette to and just press this diskette 2 E T then and 3 VOLI and N W LIN ry For insert to the insert each AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 43 8 Installation Instructions 8 1 For New Users Once you have set up your computer hardware as described in your installation manual and installed your clock battery you are ready to turn on the power and bring up easy to use AOS VS Your AOS VS operating system has been pre installed on your hard disk so it is not necessary to load it from diskettes or tape The power up sequence is described in detail in Chapter 2 of Starting and Updating Pre installed AOS VS 069 000293 00 and Starting and Updating Pre installed AOS VS on ECLIPSE MV 5000 DC Series Systems 069 000481 00 with Addendum to Starting and Updating Pre installed AOS VS on ECLIPSE MV 5000 DC Series Systems 086 000171 00 8 2 For Upgrading from a Previous Revision If you are l
6. Your system will come up problem if you select Asian la controllers your exists function properly Du will print the message oversubscribed You smaller sizes for inpu ring TAC will hav and ou The following table shows the ring buffer memory available for space using actual as shipped L patch spac If you appl e for y addi AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev the Tal Page 30 ll not have a lt answers or erminal support on some us system but i more space than actually the controller will not nitialization the system DEVIC ry COD xxx IAC memory ry to g tpu total we round down odd numbers to files tional space may change All Note that this table should be used as a guideline variance on your system is possible The following table lists changes for AOS VS II 3 01 with AOS VS II release notice 3 00 Ring buffer space for CPI 24 no options ansi IAC 8 no options ansi IAC 16 no options ansi 10 lines 11 lines 12 lines 13 lines 14 lines 15 lines 16 lines TAC L RMSC no options ansi 10 lines 11 lines 12 lines 13 lines releas a a t w Pp nerate a new system with t buffers amounts of llocation for average he next even number hich may be pre patched atches the ring buffer nd average L values are decimal bytes
7. could result in where an ex was th Screen were correc which would result certain that could result ina IAC s that may have seen this problem are and LAC12 characteristic with the Screen Empty corrected such where properly set at FIRST OPEN improper tra line wa corrected Edit ted 2 READ No Ec The relat could result in HOST memory corruption Pre Display buff the Tal Page 25 EFT ARROW and RIGHT ARROW handling perfor improved by elimi g unnecessary repain e Screen Edit U and s erased if the field ho with Pre Display first problem was not ive position data The second er was not scanned in DEL ET E s leaving charac IAC s t with AUT AUTOBAUD p had been where erroneous was corrected ers hat lack Atomic hang an system OBAUD functionality rocessing after the turned off was Edit ES BE flag READ Termed where the f This pr as connections charac was corr connect between the PMGR and TRANSPORT engin lines A problem with LAST C OSE handling down outstanding SEND s to could result This problem subsequent attempts to a CONS in Devi NABLE the li KERMIT lag was not properly oblem could result in to incorrectly teristic data was not ected This problem ion states to exist es and lead to hung
8. underscores in the Initial IPC or PROGRAM strings 14 SMI Changes a A problem where an attempt to QCAN a JOB with a sequence number gt 16384 would cause a Fixed Point Overflow TRAP has been corrected 15 PCOPY changes a 2 problems involving support for the new Data Com pression Option for several new Magnetic Tapes have been corrected b A problem that prevented PCOPY from handling a Device on the 2nd IOC has been fixed 16 Miscellaneous Changes m he HELP file CLI32 CMD PRIVILEGE is obsolete because th same HELP file applies to both CLI16 and CLI32 This obsolete HELP file is now included in the OBSOLETE FILES CLI list in the UPDATE 7 71 directory a AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 28 5 Notes and Warnings 5 1 Notes 1 Normally an estimated amount of system CPU resources used during AOS VS system calls is charged against the user s accumulated CPU time You can install an optional patch 7 71 AOSVS_SYSCALL CHARGE OPAT to enable more accurate accounting of user CPU time This patch will cause the actual amount of CPU time spent in the system on behalf of a user process to be added to that user s accumulated CPU time System calls RUNTM PSTAT and XPSTAT can be used to report user CPU time use as before but only when this patch is not installed Otherwise the CPU time used will have t
9. 03 Managing AOS VS and AOS VS TET REPORT PR identifies the logical disk address causing a device error on DPJ devices for AOS VS 7 71 error logs Enhancements New optimization features have been added to PATCH When PATCH encounters conditional patches it first evaluates the condition If the patch is not applicable then PATCH no longer processes the patch line This consider ably speeds up the processing of non applicable patches but no longer reports on these patch lines A new NOOPT Switch disables this enhancement if you want PATCH to report on these patch lines S 1 AOS VS Changes a b G All problems fixed by the 7 70 AOSVS_PAT 41 patch file have been corrected in source A 7 70 panic 14537 resulting from GURUFLAG set and many lines genned is fixed A problem causing the inability to terminate processes after an attempt to chain or terminate during memory contention is fixed AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 13 d Logical Disk capacity is truncated to 4 3 gigabytes on LDU s with sizes greater than 4 3 gigabytes This is of Significance only with the Clariion Disk Array product e AOS VS 7 71 fixes a problem with an exclusive FLOCK waiter not decrementing the waiter count when aborted This made it impossible to get the lock until the process of the aborted task terminated f A problem is fixed with data compression working in reverse on tape d
10. 5 30 5 50 gt _FTA PR PAT to properly handle queues of EX for iC for SVTA tch lt 5 30 5 50 gt _SVTA PR_PAT to properly handle terminal characteristics conjunction with AOS VS Revision 7 71 The optional pa order If you use a 150 Mbyte or greater tape cartridge devices UMP_II LOAD II programs allow the full capacity that OD te acces label and w creat There retur that tch for TPMS only the D h tape to b s tape media ed tape cannot ill have unpredic e a tape file wit accessed such as DI table are various n the status of the line the line printer 3 51 TPMSCCP PR_PAT to work properly with AOS VS Revision 7 71 All oth SPLAY CL results printer hat are either set to 7 data bits mark parity OR must be applied type FTA must be applied must be applied note er AOS VS utilities that I COPY command and AGENT access record counts greater than 65534 if used to access or h greater record counts ine printer controllers that incorrectly i e status indicates is on line and ready when it is off AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 14 15 line or even powered the process includin T Page 34 off Because of this incorrect status queue line printer is powered on and is g EXEC if executing a CONTROL EXEC START will hang when trying to open th lin
11. Notice Rev 7 71 Page 9 4 Enhancements and Changes 1 AOS VS a An co us This section lists all enhancements to AOS VS since Revision 7 70 The Changes section lists differences since Revision 7 70 Enhancements Enhancements enhancement has been added to make the system log and n0 log secure from being tampered with by privileged ers If a PROTECT switch is added to the CLI SYSLOG command used to start syslog or con0 logging the system lo at in g will be protected by the operating system from any tempt to modify it including stopping the log renam g it deleting it or in any way modifying its contents Th di SY AO De d is protection cannot be overidden by any means inclu ng but not limited to SUPERUSER SUPERPROCESS and SMGR For more information see Managing AOS VS and S VS II manual 093 000541 03 ferred soft error reporting was enhanced to better Pr st an me in tect when there is a high number of correctable errors eviously the deferred soft error report included atistical information bytes transferred error ratios d an acceptance level Marginal or Bad The new ssages no longer use the marginal or bad terminology stead specific maintenanc recommendations are provided There are now two types of error messages that ar er fo replacable unit reported depending
12. OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA you can print Update Notice Rev VO VO VO VO VO VO VO VO VO hey L26 L27 L28 L29 L30 L31 L32 L33 L34 th AOS VS Revision 7 71 are listed ina Page 38 separ The pathname of this file is AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 39 7 3 Organization NOTE The DOCUMENTATION and SYSTEM prompts will usually refer to the OS SYSTEM MEDIA while the actual physical media has been labeled as OS UTILITIES MEDIA While we apologize for the inconsistency the two designations refer to one and the same This document will refer to OS SYSTEM MEDIA 1 H and B Tape Medium Organization Magnetic Tape Medium cartridge tape The AOS VS volumes labeled OS SYST Vol 2 Any time you labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA both Vol 1 and Vol 2 Revision 7 71 are Volume 1 Tape file Contents 0 TBOOT 1 FIXUP 2 DFMTR 3 TBOOT 4 TBOOT 5 STARTER SYS 6 TBOOT 7 Tape dumpfile 1 8 UPD SYSMGR 1600 bpi magnetic you will now be tape and 21 Mbyte H and B Tape media consists of two M MEDIA Vol 1 and OS SYSTEM MEDIA instructed to load from a tape expected to load Description Tape bootstrap Disk fixer utility Disk formatter amp Tape bootstrap unused a Tape
13. Siz limitation The limit is now 4 gigabytes The relative offset limit is 2 gigabytes forward or backward Absolute positioning must be used to change the offset by more than 2 gigabytes DUMP_II enhancements a DUMP_II now includes a new TAPEMEMORY switch The following text is from the section of the CLI TPC DUMP II helpfile which describes the new TAPEMEMORY feature TAPEMEMORY MAX or TAPEMEMORY n Helps stream SCSI 2 helical scan cartridge tape drives like the 4 mm DAT Model 6762 and 8 mm Models 6760 6761 in order to prolong the life of these drives While this switch helps stream the tape drive it is not intended to improve performance nor does it provide any benefit with other drives Use this switch for large backup operations only when the system is not active the switch sets aside n 1 250 Mbytes of memory or a maximum that it computes for its buffers and runs DUMP II as a resident process You must have the privilege Change process type and suf ficient physical memory to use this switch If you use TAPEMEMORY MAX DUMP_II chooses a maximum value for you If you use TAPEMEMORY n the rule is that each Gbyte of data to be dumped requires 15 Mbytes of memory In addition to the TAPEMEMORY switch you should also use BLOCKCOUNT 255 and BUFFERSIZE n where n is the maximum buffer size supported by your system DUMP_II
14. bootstrap unused Starter program Tape bootstrap unused Operating system and utilities System manager profile AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page file Contents TBOOT FIXUP DFMTR TBOOT TBOOT STARTER SYS F TBOOT Tape dumpfile 2 Description Tape bootstrap Disk fixer utility Disk formatter a a Tape bootstrap unused Tape bootstrap unused Starter program Tape bootstrap unused Help files and utilities UPD SYSMGR Sys tem manager profile The formats of the two volumes ar tion of Note tha purpose starting file seven seven has been split between seven on have been moved to the volume t when such as from tape the loading process 2 Basical file s using the loading the before loading vol ly UTIL ven on volume 1 and fi OS SYSTEM MEDIA for any oth default operator profile either volume may be used Also duri it is not critical that you load volume ume 2 only that you load them both J and A Tape Medium Magnetic tape medium organization tape The AOS VS Revision 7 71 J H and B media consist of two volumes Bas vol cal LUME whereas and A medium consists of o lly the two file 7 dump files for the H and B media a contained in one file for the J and A
15. media HELP and UPDATE second volume because the H and B tape mediums were too small to hold the entire AOS VS product 40 the same with the excep What was previously contained in fi le le er or ng 1 130 and 150 Mbyte cartridge ne i ES AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev Tape file Diskette Medium Organization OMOANA OB WNE AANA OBR WNE O NNNNPRPRPRP PRP ERP EE WNHREOW Contents TBOOT FIXUP DFMTR TBOOT TBOOT STARTER SYS TBOOT m UPD SYSMGR Part Number 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 1 000653 04 081 081 081 1 000667 04 081 081 081 1 000765 04 1 000792 03 081 081 1 000901 03 1 000970 03 081 081 1 001 1 001 081 081 081 1 001 081 000665 04 001092 02 000666 04 000762 04 000763 04 000764 04 000793 03 000810 03 000975 03 001034 02 035 02 036 02 038 02 042 02 043 02 054 02 079 02 001 001 001 001 Tape dumpfile Descripti he tl on Tape bootstrap Disk fixer utility Disk formatter Starter program Page 41 Tape bootstrap unused Tape bootstrap unused Tape bootstrap unused Operating system and utilities System manager profile Contents STARTER 1 of STARTER 2 of STARTER 3 of VOL1 Second VOL2 Second VOL3 Second VOL4 Second VOL5 Second VOL6 Second VOL7 Second
16. printer To avoid this problem ensure that the line printer on line before trying to access it The patch 5 61 XTS PMGR RINGO PAT must be intalled in XTS PR to fix the XTS and PMGR IPC interface problem where XTS uses PID 1 to determine IPC is from PMGR In AOS PMGR resides in Ring 0 and this check is no longer true For MV 3000 Series expects the name of t you are upgrading installing Revsion 7 file from MV35 MCF of the file you will microcode file using machines AOS VS SYS he microcode 71 you shoul file to be from a revision prio ld change t the Technical Maintenan VS Revision 7 71 BOOT revision 7 71 MV3 MCF SO if r to 7 70 before he name of this to MV3 MCF If you do not change the name have to change the name of the default ce Menu option 9 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 6 Documentation In the list below been revised since Part Number 014 001344 02 069 000031 02 069 000203 02 069 000231 01 069 000293 00 093 000197 04 093 000242 02 093 000245 02 093 000246 01 093 000249 02 093 000335 01 093 000361 03 093 000396 01 093 000540 03 093 000541 03 093 000542 02 Page 35 6 1 Manuals and Templates asterisks mark manuals that are new or have AOS VS Rev 7 70 Name Binders for the manuals listed below Learning to Use Your AOS VS System Using the AOS VS System Ma
17. revised since AOS VS Revision 7 70 Filename For Manual 069 000031 02 Learning to Use Your AOS VS System 069 000293 00 Starting and Updating Preinstalled AOS VS 093 000242 02 AOS VS Macroassembler MASM Reference Manual 093 000245 02 AOS VS Link and Library File Editor LFE User s Manual 093 000246 O1 AOS VS Debugger and File Editor User s Manual 093 000335 01 AOS VS System Concepts 093 000543 02 AOS VS AOS VS II and AOS RT32 System Call 093 000646 01 Dictionary R Through Z Using the CLI AOS VS and AOS VS IT AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 37 7 Software 7 1 Media Model Number Part Number Description 31133H 071 001465 02 reel to reel tape 1600 bpi Vol 1 071 001571 02 reel to reel tape 1600 bpi Vol 2 31133B 061 000196 04 1 8 inch cart tape 21 Mbyte Vol 1 061 000557 02 1 8 inch cart tape 21 Mbyte Vol 2 311337 070 000377 02 1 2 inch cart tape 130 Mbyte Vol 1 31133A 079 000103 02 1 4 inch cart tape 150 Mbyte Vol 1 311336 34 96 tpi 5 1 4 inch diskettes 730 Kb 081 000653 04 STARTER Diskette 1 of 3 081 000665 04 STARTER Diskette 2 of 3 081 001092 02 STARTER Diskette 3 of 3 081 000666 04 OS UI 081 000667 04 OS Ui 081 000762 04 OS UT 081 000763 04 OS UT 081 000764 04 OS UT 081 000765 04 OS Ul 081 000792 03 OS UT 081 000793 03 OS UT 081 000810 03 OS UT ITIES MEDIA VOL1 LITIES MEDIA VOL2 ITIES MEDIA VOL3 ITIES MEDIA VO
18. the template was not a template the primary element count of the directory recorded in the dump file would be incorrect This caused invalid primary element count errors when you attempted to reload that directory or the files it contained This was a rare problem since the default directory element size is 1 unless a different size was specified wh been fixed to n th LDU was created This problem has retain the correct information The BUFFERSIZE switch was being ignored when dumping to remote tape size was always being used regardless of the BUFFERSIZE drives across the network The maximum 8K value The BUFFERSIZE switch now works properly and the default is still 8K when no BUFFERSIZE switch is used DUMP_II was not giving a properly formated name to dump files for system areas This has been corrected In AOS VS 7 70 a template containing a leading would incorrectly cause an Illegal template character error This problem is now fixed and templates with leading characters will be processed correctly AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 20 Changes If limiting is not enabled for a queue the default maxtime will not be printed to the QOUT file or displayed when a QD V is done This change was made because maxtime is not enforced unless limiting is not enabled and its p
19. 0 1994 ts Reserved Material Property of Data General Corporation tware is made available solely pursuant to the a DGC license agreement which governs its use AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Table of Contents N Ww 4 5 Bis 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Product Description Environment 1 Hardware and Microcode 2 Software Enhancements and Changes 4 1 Enhancements 2 Changes Notes and Warnings 5 1 Notes 2 Warnings Documentation 1 anuals and Templates 2 Documentation Changes Files Software edia 2 Files 3 3 Organization r Installation Instructions 1 For New Users 2 For Upgrading from a Previus Bevi sioi Preparing a Software Trouble Report STR Page 2 OAA UE a 28 28 32 35 35 36 37 37 38 39 43 43 43 46 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Upda 1 Introduction AOS VS is available as update notice contain is intended for systems that come with Pre I MV 5500 DC MV 5600 DC DC MV 2000 DC other machines read the updat 078 000105 29 The Introduc Enhancements chapters are the on specific information odel 390 informa with Pr S MV 3600 MV 1400 DC The purpose of this release not tion about Revision 7 71 of AOS VS that is AOS VS documentation nstalled AOS VS are the DS 7500 te Notice Rev 7 71 Page 3 Q and also as Model 31133 This tion about AOS VS Model 31133 which e Inst
20. AC of type 128 or 64 gen appropriate new revision system result i running that ERMCONTROLLER SOFTWARE ITC128 Rev 22025 or greater these controllers you s Rev 3 36 or greater If or LTC64 y of If y ou TERMCONTRO ou you are running the XNS should load TERMCONTROLLER If you are running ERMCONTROLLER software revisions can If he question TER fai protocol the TCPIP hould load TERMCONTROLLER you used VSGEN to create MANAGER download you must install the LER software before 1 to do this ITC 128s or LTC 64s on your system will fail to boot The command sequence O S O yields issued via a keyboard attached versus other types of controll ers t T and must be followed by a Q in order is a known restriction and wil sion of AOS VS A new AOS VS functionality Package This interfac 5 30 ll not c line interface was created be Performance different results when hrough an ITC128 or LTC64 he S will not be ignored to restore output This hange in a future revi tween AOS VS 7 70 and the Lo provide additional re implements the Line Monitor AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 10 11 12 13 featu and The n to b to be With Perfo GURUF prior The suppo D200 If y betwe restr AOS V more prior record counts cannot
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22. CON x 0 1 2 2 4 11 22 12 1 13 3 14 5 23 23 Optional patch 7 71 AOSVS_TIAC24 CONS_OPAT revert to the pre AOS VS 7 70 line numbering scheme The and VSGI editor MODIFY have wri SYSGI EN HLP Thes EN directory contains two new VSGEN files files ar from the Anyone using the new command used by VS T is provided to VSGEN CON EN s new line group G TERMINA line group edi te access to the VSGI EN CON file command or the tor s main menu must Beginning in AOS VS 7 70 two sets of IAC PR files are shipped The files xxxRS PR are the IAC files that were shipped with AOS VS 7 69 and are executed via the PID 1 PMGR process To run these files the KANJI option must be GENNED or a special optional patch must be used The xxxZRS PR files are the IAC files that are executed via RING 0 Terminal Services These IAC s represent the default Terminal Services functionality Intelligent ITC 128 and amount of memory availabl IAC 24 input If you asynchronous etc output buffers controllers allocate a portion of their memory su also called le varies from revision h as IAC 8 IAC 16 for ring buffers The to revision Cc have taken the VSGEN default answers for Input buffer byte length and Output buffer byte length you wil But if you specified larger than defaul nguage or ANSI system may
23. I Main Menu Turn on Superuser as follows SUPERUSER ON lt NL gt Position yourself in the root directory as follows Su DIRECTORY lt NL gt Restore UP CLI and any other macros in the root that you have modified as follows Su DELETE UP CLI RENAME UP CLI XXX UP CLI lt NL gt Position yourself in the UPD directory as follows Su DIRECTORY UPD lt NL gt Restore SYSMGR and OP as follows 5 J Su Su LETE SYSMGR RENAME SYSMGR XXX SYSMGR lt NL gt ELETE OP RENAME OP XXX OP lt NL gt D D AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 46 Return to the SMI Main Menu as follows Su BYE lt NL gt f You are now ready to resume normal work activity 9 Preparing a Software Trouble Report STR Gathering STR Information If you find an error in AOS VS its utilities or its documentation or if you have suggestions to make about the product please fill out and return a Data General Software Trouble Report STR If your contract permits you may report the information called for to your Data General representative You should use the newly revised on line STR form pathname UTIL STR_FORM_AOSVS See Chapter 10 in Managing AOS VS and AOS VS II for help in filling out the STR End of AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice
24. L4 LITIES MEDIA VOLS LITIES MEDIA VOL6 LITIES MEDIA VOL7 ITIES MEDIA VOL8 ITIES MEDIA VOL9 lI lI lI TI lI lI lI bal lI 081 000901 03 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL10 081 000970 03 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL11 081 000975 03 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL12 081 001034 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL13 081 001035 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL14 081 001036 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL15 081 001038 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL16 081 001042 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL17 081 001043 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL18 081 001054 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL19 081 001079 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL20 081 001080 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL21 081 001081 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL22 081 001082 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL23 081 001083 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL24 081 001084 02 OS UTILITIES MEDIA VOL25 AOS VS for the MV DC Series 081 081 081 081 081 081 081 081 081 7 2 Files The files shipped wi file UTIL 7 71 AOSVS_ FILES ate text 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 001 085 02 086 02 087 02 088 02 089 02 121 00 122 00 123 00 124 00 that OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA OS UTILITIES EDIA
25. PAT UNCHANGED 7 71 AOSVS DEL LEBS OPAT NEW 7 71 _AOSVS_IAC24 CONS_ OPAT NEW 7 71 _AGENT PR_ RECREATE OPAT NEW 7 71 FIXUP REBOOT OPAT NEW 7 71 _XXXZRS PR_ESBB OPAT NEW AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 You can find det in Appendix A o AOS VS ships wi and the related OI OB files can be found in diagnostic build AOS VS and t Fh ct messages from bot heir language UTIL and T th up to date error messages in the E B files for AOS VS and its utiliti include Page 8 ailed information about the optional patches the 3900 Update Notice 078 000105_29 the h DGC language produc runtime environments If you rebuild your system s ERMES file using LINK ERMES CLI or your own tailored macro the language and runtime OB files will be included u update these with ERMES files obtained RMES file es These error and ts used to the macro following nless you from more current revisions of the language or runtime product Product Common Language Runtime DGL F77 LANG RT PL 1 PL 1 16 Environment OB File Revision ERMES OB 4 10 REERMES OB 3 12 DGLERMES OB 3 20 F77ERMES OB 4 10 LANG RTERMES OB 3 53 LERMES OB 2 52 LERMES16 0OB 33 12 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update
26. VOL8 Second VOL9 Second VOL10O Second VOL11 Second VOL12 Second VOL13 Second VOL14 Second VOL15 Second VOL16 Second VOL17 Second VOL18 Second VOL19 Second VOL20 Second 3 3 3 dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum du dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum B O O S T ST T S O O ot OO 10 10 S S S ODOOOOO OO O 00007000000 0 YYYrYrvrv x vyrevrvrvrvrvrwvrwv wv AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 24 25 26 2 7 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 33 08 081 081 08 08 081 081 08 08 081 081 081 08 081 1 001 001 001 1 001 1 001 001 001 1 001 1 001 001 001 001 1 001 001 080 02 VO 081 02 VO 082 02 VO 083 02 VO 084 02 VO 085 02 VO 086 02 VO 087 02 VO 088 02 VO 089 02 VO 121 00 VO 122 00 VO 123 00 VO 124 00 VO L21 L22 L23 L24 L25 L26 L27 L28 L29 L30 L31 L32 L37 L34 Second dum Second dum Second dum Second dum Second dum h i H H nd dum H nd dum nd dum nd dum nd dum h FH FH Fh Fh Fh h H H H H H H H nd dum nd dum nd dum t H cto CTD DO TI S NONNO NONO NO Fh Fh Fh Ft nd dum le le le le le le le le le le le le le le sae Re le RN No SS a a A Page 42 To create a backup diskette set of system and utility files Type the following use the SYSDISK SUPERUS Su DIR
27. alled AOS VS New machines and ECLIPS DC MV 3500 DC MV 3200 DC MV 2500 and MV 1000 DC computers For all notice for AOS VS Model 3900 Software Installation and with 3900 or 31133 ry e tion ly chapters ice is to provide you with informa not available in the AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 4 This product consists of the following parts Part Description Part Number AOS VS Rev 7 71 update notice 078 000273 16 AOS VS Rev 7 71 update media See Section 7 of this update notice This printed update notice always accompanies the software After you have installed the product you can print additional copies of this notice Its pathname is UTIL 078 000273 16 2 Product Description AOS VS Advanced Operating System Virtual Storage is one of several Data General proprietary operating systems Running on ECLIPSE MV Family and DS Series computers AOS VS is a multitasking multiprogramming demand paged virtual storage operating system that is suited for time sharing batch processing and real time control applications This revision of AOS VS combines the functionality of all previous revisions and their updates and adds new functionality and changes AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 5 3 Environment 3 1 Hardware and Microcode 1 To run AOS VS Models 3900 and 31133 DGC recommends that you have at least 3 megabytes of
28. be read by those earlier revisions avoid res which allow you to Think Time for each ew Line Monitor allows Cc a ollect da types e monitored as well as al monitored AOS VS 7 71 rmance Package either b LAG to 1 revisions of to 5 30 will no longer BROWSE utility will rt the Read Model type terminals ID c ou use 150MB or greater en systems please note ictions with the latest S 7 71 allows the DUMP than 65534 to AOS VS 7 70 did n this problem use tape records y SYSTUNE the AOS work ommand tape cart that ther the Tal Page 33 ta about Response Time terminal connected to your system of terminal connections lowing more than 128 connections if Line Monitoring is enabled for the AOS VS or by patching location VS Performance Package NOT run on any terminal that does not This includes D2 and ridge media to move data versions ar tap interchange of DUMP II and LOAD II II and LOAD II programs to access DUMP_II LOAD II for media interchange tridg e and 32KB for 2GB cartridge if possible in on tap fil Revisions ot Tapes containing these high To large buffer sizes when using 16KB for 150MB car tionality will only work AOS VS Terminal Services AUTOBAUD func on te 8 dat The order e order The optional pa rminals t a bits no parity optional patch lt
29. binary enabled Patchkit 7 71 XLPT PR_CLEANUP ALL OPAT is now provided to make XLPT function as it did in AOS VS 7 70 where the cleanup file is printed after every request to a printer that has binary enabled r When you QPRINT an empty file XLPT normally does not print anything not even headers that may be associated with the printer Patchkit 7 71 XLPT PR_EMPTY FILE OPAT is now provided to change XLPT so that the headers ar printed even if the file is empty AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 22 s All problems fixed by the 7 70 EXEC PR_PAT 06 patch file have been corrected in source t All problems fixed by the 7 70 XLPT PR_PAT O1 patch file have been corrected in source AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 El Page 23 10 REPORT Changes a XX was This REPORT did not handle DEVICES xx properly when th devic cod of a H A D A MV controller problem has been fixed REPORT device error format for the H A D A MV has changed slightly References to Sauna have been changed to IOP and both the device position letter and number are reported REPORT was ignoring the LPP switch This has been fixed Output for system panic events was not displaying all values This has been fixed Changes A wrong error message was displayed when the list file is written to a directory to wh
30. he Opera ting System component of CPU time added to the user s CPU time spent This means that the user CPU time number returned in RUNTM PSTAT and XPSTAT will include any operating system CPU time spent on behalf of that user The affected number returned in the RUNTM PSTAT and XPSTAT system calls is at offset GRCH for the RUNTM system call PSCH PSCL for the PSTAT system call and XPCH double word for the XPSTAT system call AOS VS Rev 7 71 only supports TDFTs Terminal Dependent Function Tables in the following environments CPI MCP1 LAC 12 IAC 16 IAC 8 non 68k version TDFT support is not planned for other controllers AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 3 In revisions prior were improperly numbered TAC 24s AOS VS distributes processors on the IAC 24 the two one processor and t to AOS VS the names he odd on 7 70 consol This p so that they the ev the other the Tal Page 29 es associated with roblem is now fixed alternat between en numbered lines on This is in keeping with console numbering on the other terminal controllers with multiple processors However the result of this fix is that these consoles will have different numbers when rev 7 71 is installed Specifically if the lowest numbered console on the IAC 24 is CONx then the console number for a particular terminal changes as follows 7 69 7 70 CON x O
31. ich a user has no write access This problem has been fixed AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 24 12 Terminal Services Changes a A problem that effectively disabled the CFF form feed on OPEN functionality was fixed A problem with the 68K IACs that occurred when more than 4 different EDIT READ programs attempted to establish on a single controller was fixed This problem led to a 34036 panic In addition to fixing the panic problem the maximum allowable number of EDIT READ programs per controller was raised from 4 to 8 A problem with IAC timing logic that could result in corrupted timing chains as well as IAC page 0 corruption was fixed This problem could cause 34045 panics or hung IAC lines A Stack Overflow problem with the Eclipse based IAC s ie IAC16 IAC8 has been corrected A problem introduced in AOS VS 7 70 that resulted in incorrect RETURN COLUMN data for SCREEN MGT READ s when the column equaled the CPL variable has been fixed A MODEM connect problem that could result in garbage being displayed to the Terminal during a LOGON attempt has been fixed An ITC disconnect problem that could result in hung lines or in 34040 or 34047 panics has been corrected in AOS VS 7 71 A number of problems that were resulting in panic sub code 76 Timeout have been fixed These panics were typically see
32. ligned to be consistent with the EXEC interface These changes ar reflected in the COOP_TOOLKIT LB and COOP MAIN OB files k In SAMPLE COOP C the INIT DEVICE declaration was changed to be consistent with the COOP _TOOLKIT IN change 1 The CX LIMIT command was not setting page limits properly on print queues and the incorrect error stream not found was returned This command now works properly m The EXEC system call would sometimes hang with the XFSTS function This problem is now fixed n A problem which could lead to an EXEC fatal error Invalid state reached has been fixed o The Control EXEC MODIFY and QMODIFY commands were not modifying the DESTINATION QLIST or QOUTPUT names These names can now be modified with these commands p Issuing an EXEC XFBAT call and specifying an output file would cause EXEC to return the error file does not exist if the output file did not exist EXEC now create the output file if it does not exist q In AOS VS 7 71 XLPT handling of cleanup files was incorrectly changed so that cleanup files were printed after every print request to a printer that has binary enabled With AOS VS 7 71 XLPT functionality is corrected so that cleanup files are only printed after BINARY or PASSTHRU requests to a printer that has
33. memory For Model 31446 AOS VS Operating we suggest System Environment for the DS 7500 series Systems t at least 4 megabytes of memory The Microcode revision of your system varies depending on your configuration The following list shows the latest revisions of Microcode available AOS VS will work with these and later revisions Computer Microcode Additional Notes i Aa So Revision Esa coal nla s a V 1000 DC 12 00 V 1400 DC 12 00 V 2000 DC 10 00 Level A V 2000 DC enhanced 12 00 V 2500 DC 8 00 V 3200 DC 53 85 Dependent on the revision V 3500 DC of the processor chip set and MV 3600 DC V 4000 13 00 Models 8468 8469 8760 and 8761 V 4000 class 13 00 Models 8764 and 8765 V 5500 DC 53 85 V 5600 DC 53 85 V 6000 11 00 No hardware floating point DS 7500 10 00 DS 7500 enhanced 12 00 AOS VS for the MV DC Series V 7800 MV 7800 DC V 7800 U MV 7800 C V 7800 DCX V 7800 XP V 8000 MV 8000 II V 8000 C V 9300 V 9500 V 9600 V 10000 V 10000 SX V 15000 Models 8 10 and 20 V 18000 V 20000 V 40000 Update Notice Rev 7 11 00 9 00 2 00 9 00 13 00 123 T Page 6 No hardware floating point With hardware floating pt Model 9300 with ATI is not supported Model 8780 Model 8880 IDOS revision AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 3 2 Software Page 7
34. n on controllers with unterminated lines or powered off PC s which resulted in xecessive cod executed by the controller interrupt handlers A design change introduced in AOS VS 7 70 that disabled Page Mode with Binary WRITE s was corrected to revert back to AOS VS 7 69 functionality Binary WRITE will no longer disable Page Mode A design change introduced in AOS VS 7 70 that looked at characters for delimiter checking after 7BIT masking had been applied was corrected to revert back to AOS VS 7 69 functionality wher delimiter checking was done against the original characters in the WRITE buffer Certain applications which were taking advantage of the 7 69 functionality were losing WRITE data as a result of the change AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev Screen Edit L mance were ting of the screen natin A boundary condition problem with th K handling ended in column 79 Two problems wi functionality properly valida which problem was the properly ters on the screen ting the A problem using Function Key delimit Too Long errors were occuring ps Line A problem with HOST IAC interface was corrected CPI MCP LMC An initialization problem that would AUTOBAUD corrected result in A problem on Input Buffer cleared was application programs timeout and break their An ITC LTC problem
35. n the ESTR string was not set Now the ESTR string will be set to the text which corresponds to the error code For disk unit type DKU files use of filename previ ously caused CLI32 to terminate Now this will return an Illegal file type for macro error message m here are instances wher W allow a template with a trailing for instance SPACE V NET lt host gt The 2 20 CLI32 reported errors when such templates were used his now works correctly m The MOVE DELETE command did not properly move the UDA of DIRECTORY type files This now works properly MOVE FTA produced spurious errors when used with a source pathname that contained more than one entry in the pathname Commands using a L switch sometimes returned spurious errors if they were preceeded by the command sequence LIST K LISTFILE lt filename gt This is now fixed he ESTRING switch sometimes produced spurious errors when used more than once in the same macro This is now The STREAM switch is now accepted by the QFTA command m he loopend psuedo macro did not work properly in macros create by a QBATCH M command This is now fixed m he SUBSTRING pseudo macro did not return fill charac ters when used with the RIGHTFILL and ITEM switches This has been fixed READ command was not recognizing D D as end of file his has been fixed m
36. nagement Interface SMI AOS VS and AOS VS II Glossary Starting and Updating Preinstalled AOS VS SP T ED Text Editor AOS and AOS VS User s Manual AOS VS Macroassembler MASM Reference Manual AOS VS Link and Library File Editor LFE User s Manual z AOS VS Debugger and File Editor User s Manual SED Text Editor User s Manual AOS and AOS VS AOS VS System Concepts SED Text Editor template new color grey AOS VS Debug FED template new color grey AOS VS and AOS VS II Error and Status Messages Managing AOS VS and AOS VS II AOS VS AOS VS II and AOS RT32 System Call Dictionary A Through Q with addendum 086 000195 00 AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 093 000543 02 093 000646 01 093 000650 01 093 000675 02 AOS VS AOS VS II and AOS RT32 System Dictionary R Through Z with addendum 086 000196 00 Using the CLI AOS VS and AOS VS II with addendum 086 000200 00 AOS VS and AOS VS II Menu Driven Utilit template Installing Starting and Stopping AOS 6 2 Documentation Changes Files Page 36 Call ies VS Print the documentation changes files listed below after installing your software The files are located in directory UTIL Follow the instructions on the first page of each file The documentation is incomplete without them Asterisks mark files that have been
37. not properly tearing OLE was corrected ce in Use errors on nes AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 26 t A problem with the older ECLIPSE based IAC s that could result in a single byte buffer overwrite was corrected u A problem with older ECLIPSE based IAC s where turning on CTO CHAR ON TO was not timing out IO in progress at the time of the change was corrected v A problem with aborting for Priority Reads that could cause a 7300 panic was corrected w An ITC LTC problem where ports would go into disabled mode when logging out disconnecting from the ITC was corrected x A problem in Drop Type Ahead functionality not working with the TPMS product was corrected AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 27 13 VSGEN Changes a Disk specifications including SWAP and PAGE allow unit numbers O F hexidecimal where previous revisions only allowed 0 7 b VSGEN has been corrected to accept either HRDFLC or HOFC as the Hardware Output Flow Control characteristic c VSGEN has been corrected to accept a series of line numbers with only spaces used for delimiters d A problem with Too Many Channels that would result in a VSGEN FATAL ERROR condition has been corrected e A problem where a system could be build without a CONO entry has been fixed f VSGEN has been corrected to properly accept
38. oading a new revision of the operating system over the previous revision on your disk follow the procedure below to prevent the loss of important information a Some users modify UP CLI or change the passwords of the OP and or SYSMGR profiles If you have not made changes to released macro files and have not changed the passwords of OP or SYSMGR skip to step b below Enter the CLI from SMI by pressing NEW LINE twice from the SMI Main Menu Turn on Superuser as follows SUPERUSER ON lt NL gt Position yourself in the root directory as follows Su DIRECTORY lt NL gt Copy UP CLI and any other macros in the root that you have modified as follows Su COPY UP CLI XXX UP CLI lt NL gt AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 44 b Position yourself in the UPD directory as follows Su DIRECTORY UPD lt NL gt Copy SYSMGR and OP as follows Su COPY SYSMGR XXX SYSMGR lt NL gt Su COPY OP XXX OP lt NL gt Return to the SMI Main Menu as follows Su BYE lt NL gt Shut down the system following the instructions in Chapter 5 of Using the AOS VS System Management Interface SMI 069 000203 02 Load the new release following the procedures described in chapters 5 or 6 Loading Releases and Updates from Tape Diskettes in Starting and Updating Pre installed AOS VS 069 000293 00 and Starting and U
39. on the number of correctable rors The following shows the format of these messages r ECLIPSE tapes The FRU ID identifies the field From system on dd mm yy at hh mm ss Soft Tape Error Report Device code xxx Unit xx FRU ID xx A high number of correctable errors has occurred Please observe the suggested maintenance schedul for the drive From system on dd mm yy at hh mm ss Soft Tape Error Report Device code xxx Unit xx FRU ID xx AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page Cc d AOS this An unacceptably high number of correctable errors has occurred Please clean the tape drive and use a known good tape If you receive this message 10 frequently contact your DG service representative VS 7 71 supports the new WSCNTL system call system call to view or adjust the maximum and minimum values for the current processes working s See furt AOS VS 7 71 logs in caus addr devi addr Documentation Changes file UTIL 093 000543 02 her details a ERROR LOG the logical disk addr ing a device error on DPJ devices The logical d ess is placed in the double word at location 46 of ce error code 4 event REPORT PR identifies ess if the DE and DX switches are used Use or et for ess isk a the AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 11 3 AGENT enhancements a READ no longer has a 2 gigabyt pie Bal
40. ons of this processing was 7 70 when por of PID 1 PMGR consoles ped with overhead to terminals is Te dLy CP to aid in Consoles supported by Terminal DE number call on give PNAME is invalid i Is A For example CONSOLE nput PARTIAL T Page 32 All these much of the system call proces processed This is in contrast with revisions prior to U u ld not be measured exc Services will til in Ring 0 of the the responsibility While PID 1 PMGR does retain some minor respon sibilities with Rev shoul PID s CPU consumption tool ization associated with lusively by examining this The AOS VS Monitor Rev 5 30 is accurately See that product s release information for details equip measuring terminal return a PID of 0 Next the it would b this PID returned an an application does a GPORT on the associated global port an application returned global port n to the GPORT system call and the PID returned in AC1 0 If the application then uses system call does an ILKUP system number is is nput to the nce PID 0 0 has i rror si for PNAME REV 10C K B ETW 5 EN AOS VS REV 7 71 AND THERE F E on your Software protocol Software on Failure to use these new TI n the following problem system specifying N to t as part of I
41. or PRIORITY commands referenced remote processes These commands now work properly Note due to a RMA restriction these commands will not work properly when th remot process ID is greater than 255 CLI macros can use the command line NULL READ to request a NEWLINE before continuing macro execution Such macros occasionally failed with the a macro file gt 10000 bytes requires CLI extension error This problem is now fixed An extraneous ampersand amp character was inserted at the beginning of alternate lines of files created by CREATE M if each of th lines wer preceeded by a right parenthesis This problem is now fixed CLI macros that use the M switch within an infinite loop led to a heap overflow error This problem is now fixed AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 19 1 8 DISPLAY Changes a b DISPLAY did not copy to the destination tape when using the command X DISPLAY NOLIST ALL tapel tape2 when tape2 was an MTJ type device This has been fixed All problems fixed by the 7 70 DISPLAY PR_PAT 01 patch file have been corrected in source DUMP_II Changes a b c d DUMP_II was not always properly dumping directories with xtended element sizes greater than 1 If the directory was dumped using a pathname of the format DIR_NAME TEMPLATE and
42. pdate Notice Rev 7 71 Page 15 5 In mode 2 there was a problem that caused lines to wrap too soon if there were more than two control attribute characters in the line This problem is fixed and the lines will properly wrap in mode 2 File Changes The UTIL XHELPB CLI macro was corrected so that it properly displays dim and bright characters in HELP files T Many of the HELP files were updated so that they properly display dim and bright characters when viewed with the HELPB or XHELPB macro which uses BROWSE CLI16 Changes a Before 7 70 CLI16 turned the system manager privilege on and off for certain commands The 7 70 CLI16 gives the user control with the PRIVILEGE command However sometimes the 7 70 CLI16 inadvertently turns the privi lege off not realizing the user wants it on The 7 71 CLI16 corrects this problem and it avoids inadvertently turning the privilege off There was a problem processing the QSNA command if both the TYPE and MEDIUM switches wer used The first Switch was inadvertantly ignored This is now fixed All problems fixed by the 7 70 CLI16 PR_PAT O1 patch file have been corrected in source AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 16 6 CLI32 Changes 1 10 11 12 13 If a son was proc d with the ESTR switch and the son returned an error code but not a string the
43. pdating Pre installed AOS VS on ECLIPSE MV 3500 DC and MV 5000 DC Series Systems 069 000481 03 NOTE AOS VS Revision 7 71 31133B and 31133H tape media consists of 2 volumes and the following procedural changes should be noted Where there was previously one volume of system tape media labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA there are now two volumes labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA Vol 1 and OS SYSTEM MEDIA Vol 2 Any time you are instructed to load software from a tape labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA you should load both Vol 1 and Vol 2 If you are running the Starter program you load system software by selecting entry 3 Load new system software on your disk from the Build or Update System Disk Menu or by typing the keyword SOFTWARE Either way you are placed in the Load New System Software screen Here you are prompted to mount the tape as follows Mount the OS SYSTEM MEDIA on unit MTJO Press NEW LINE when ready Mount the tape labeled OS SYSTEM MEDIA Vol 1 and proceed by pressing NEW LINE When the tape has finished loading you are returned to entry 3 of the Build or Update System Disk Menu Press NEW LINE to return to the Load New System Software screen Once again you are prompted to mount a tape Mount the OS SYSTEM MEDIA on unit MTJO Press NEW LINE when ready
44. resence in the QOUT file or the QD V display may be misleading Resolved problems with changing stream priority with the CONTROL EXEC PRIORITY command Owner access or superuser operator access is now required to issue this command XBAT PR would crash if it received invalid data in place of device names This has been fixed XBAT returned incorrect error messages when a user issued CONTROL EXEC PRIORITY commands without a stream number This has been fixed Superuser could not issue MOUNT requests when the ACL of PER MOUNTQ was OP WR This has been fixed EXEC was always converting jobnames to uppercase Job names will no longer be converted to uppercase but will retain the case originally specified by the user If a user specifies a lowercase jobname on the QBATCH command a lower case jobname will be displayed by the QD V command A problem which caused EXEC to crash with EXEC unavailable please log off and terminate this EXEC has been fixed Exec was not closing the line when IAC panics occurred This has been fixed XBAT was not returning an error when the QOUTPUT direc tory was full This has been fixed AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 21 j The St stream state structure and the INIT DEVICE entry declaration were changed in COOP_TOOLKIT IN so that the status bits are now a
45. rives Previously a data compression off bit was being viewed as a do data compression bit g A problem is fixed with some density switches like density low on some unicorn MTJ tapes h AOS VS 7 71 insures the used MCA link will be returned in offset PRNH of the RDB packet if a 0 is supplied in the same offset which accepts transmissions from any link Previous revisions only worked with 32 bit programs which did not suspend MCA protocol AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 14 AGENT Changes a The internal symbol table lookup T immediately FED PATCH DEBUG further translations A delay will occur w value is translated depending on table but subsequent translations will occur was improved A buffer cache routine was improved as in AGENT PR patch 7 70 00 01 Additional source changes were also made to optimize value to symbol translation During the first value to symbol translation the AGENT optimizes for hile the first the size of the symbol and the FEDFUNC system ca all benefit from these changes b A problem with CDAY using the high bits of ACO is fixed c AOS VS 7 71 fixes problems with reading variable length records split across two labeled d All problems fixed by the 7 70 AGI have been corrected in source BROWSE Changes a Numerous changes were made
46. to the fix spelling errors make the screens more readable and to clarify some functionality b When supplying a template on the no files exist to match the templa the user in the Windows screen and display the error lt template from command line gt character at the bottom of the put the user in a screen with the message argument s Press any key since BROWSE has no files to view tapes ENT PR_PAT 08 patch file BROWSE help screens to BROWSE command line and te BROWSE would put Illegal filename screen BROWSE will now No files match to continue Any keystroke will put the user into the Windows screen in this situation py ROWS nformation for new users and isplay the normal header Y w Q H H H w header on subsequent screens normally displays a header con nformation But when the NU nitial screen displays a header with some helpful then subsequent screens On the initial screen ROWSE NU was incorrectly displaying the normal header nd then immediately over writing it with the new user header BROWSE NU will now display just the new user header on the initial screen and then display the normal taining file status switch is used the d Browse did not properly recognise D412 D462 and D2164 models This is now corrected AOS VS for the MV DC Series U
47. will disregard the value you choose if there is n p ot enough memory available or if that value would revent the system from running It will inform you of his and continue to run with a smaller value NOTE If you use TAPEMEMORY MAX run only one dump process or you may hang the dump processes or the system You can run multiple processes if you use TAPEMEMORY n but whether you run one or several processes ensure that the summation of n for all processes is the smaller of two values 80 of physical memory or physical memory minus 5 Megabytes AOS VS for 4 CLI32 a the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 12 Enhancements To allow viewing of help files via BROWSE the macros UTIL HELPB CLI and UTIL XHELPB CLI are provided These function the same as the HELP V command and the XHELP CLI macro except that the BROWSE utility is used to view the appropriate help file The help files were modified to include leading DIM OFF control characters on each line This assures the proper handling of dim attributes while scrolling through a help file via BROWSE 5 REPORT Enhancements a b 6 PATCH a 4 2 Change Support for new syslog and con0 logging entries was added for syslog and con0 logging protection This is descri bed in manual 093 000541
48. ype command the CLASS of the error returned was not consistent This has been fixed All errors during a VARx type command will now be treated as CLASS1 errors The command WHO username number sometimes returned a host does not exist error when th specified process did not exist It now returns a process not in hierachy error The TYPE switch on the MOVE command was not properly restricting the files moved to the type specified This has been fixed When a permanent file was moved via a MOVE command with the REC or DEL switch specified the moved file did not have permanence This has been fixed Using the FTA switch with the MOVE command while RMA was disabled did not work properly and produced a CLI traceback This is now fixed CLI command lines longer that 256 characters caused a hang when running in batch This now works properly Previously when CLI32 encountered a heap overflow error a traceback was output and then the CLI chained A AOS VS for the MV DC Series Update Notice Rev 7 71 Page 18 27 28 29 30 31 traceback will no longer be output and the CLI will only chain if necessary in many instances of this error the CLI can continue execution after the error occurs m he ERCL switch to the QSNA command now works properly The error Unable to access network in this manner was incorrectly returned when the PRTYPE
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