VSI OpenVMS ECO Kit

INSTALL_1: To be installed by all customers.

This installation rating serves as a guide to which customers should apply this remedial kit.

Reference the Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability Statement.

No reboot is necessary after installation of this kit.

However there are additional steps that must be performed to use the images provided by this kit on all nodes of a VMSCluster using a common system disk. Refer to Special Installation Instructions for required post-installation actions.

VSI OpenVMS for Integrity Servers V8.4-2L3

This kit is provided for download within a ZIP archive container file.

The kit files may be extracted on any system with UNZIP and copied to your OpenVMS system, or extracted on your OpenVMS system directly.

Assuming you have created an UNZIP symbol to invoke the UNZIP image, you can invoke UNZIP to unpack the kit on OpenVMS using the command:

$ UNZIP VMS842L3I_RTL-V0900

This will extract the installable PCSI product kit file and its associated signed manifest (_VNC file), used for kit validation during PRODUCT commands.

VSI strongly recommends always using the manifest to validate the kit content during any PRODUCT commands. This will occur automatically if the files are both contained in the same directory.

Install this kit with the POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility by logging into the SYSTEM account, and typing the following at the DCL prompt:

$ PRODUCT INSTALL VMS842L3I_RTL [/SOURCE=location_of_kit]

The kit location may be a tape drive, CD/DVD, or a disk directory that contains the kit. The /SOURCE qualifier is not needed if the PRODUCT INSTALL command is executed from the same directory as the kit location.

This kit requires the use of /RECOVERY_MODE and /SAVE_RECOVERY_DATA and will automatically set them; they do not need to be present on the command line.

The release notes for any kit may be extracted prior to kit installation using the PRODUCT EXTRACT RELEASE_NOTES command.

User-selectable options for installation behavior and scripting are available in this kit, refer to Appendix A, User-Selectable Control Options and Scripting Considerations for further details.

Additional help on installing PCSI kits can be found by typing HELP PRODUCT INSTALL at the system prompt.

If this kit is being installed in a non-clustered environment, the following steps may be ignored. In a VMScluster with a shared system disk, additional steps must be taken so that the other nodes that share the system disk will use the new images.

Execute the following commands on each node that is sharing the system disk that has been updated:

$ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:DECC$SHR.EXE
$ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:DECC$SHRP.EXE
$ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$MESSAGE:DECC$MSG.EXE
$ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:LIBRTL.EXE

These same commands should be repeated for other systems sharing the system disk if this patch kit is removed via a PRODUCT UNDO PATCH operation.

Additional documentation for CRTL ECO V9.0 functionality included in this kit is copied to the system disk during kit installation. This documentation is provided both in text format (.TXT) for immediate reference and convenience of using the OpenVMS SEARCH command, and in PDF format for more legible output and convenience for formatted printing or viewing from a browser:

SYS$HELP:VSI_OPENVMS_CRTL_ECO9_RELEASE_NOTES.TXT
SYS$HELP:VSI_OPENVMS_CRTL_ECO9_RELEASE_NOTES.PDF

The release notes for this kit and the above files containing additional documentation may be extracted from the PCSI kit before kit installation for reference and planning purposes. The PCSI kit files are present after extraction from the ZIP archive as described above in Section 8.1, “Compressed File”.

To extract the VSI_OPENVMS_CRTL_ECO9_RELEASE_NOTES.TXT file and the standard kit release notes, use the command:

$ PRODUCT EXTRACT RELEASE_NOTES VMS842L*_RTL /VERSION=V9.0

To extract the PDF format additional documentation, use the command:

$ PRODUCT EXTRACT FILE VMS842L*_RTL /VERSION=V9.0 /SELECT=*.PDF

Either of these commands will create a local copy of the desired file(s) in the current default directory.

An update for the HELP CRTL online help that corresponds to these changes will be contained in a future patch update kit.