OVMS V62 REL NOTES.PDF

This document is the "OpenVMS Version 6.2 Release Notes" from May 1995. It details changes, enhancements, problems, restrictions, and corrections related to the OpenVMS operating system (both VAX and Alpha platforms), as well as hardware and layered products.

Key areas covered include:

• Installation and Upgrade: Information common to both VAX and Alpha systems, including software product descriptions (SPDs), InfoServer software updates, and potential issues with DECnet/OSI installations and DCL Help updates. Specific notes for VAX and Alpha installations are also provided, addressing topics like RAID device naming problems, Audio Editor in DECwindows Mail, and system directory installation.
• Hardware: Details on Alpha firmware revisions, AlphaStation and AlphaServer series computers (graphics support, console variable changes, adapter/controller issues), Ethernet and FDDI controllers, RFnn DSSI disk devices (microcode updates), and VAX 4000 series computers.
• General User Notes: Corrections and restrictions for Batch and Print Queues (file search qualifiers, print job alignment, log file handling, START/QUEUE command issues) and DCL Commands (SET PROCESS, DELETE/QUEUE/MANAGER, INITIALIZE/QUEUE, PRINT/DELETE, SHOW SYSTEM, SUBMIT command issues).
• System Management: Updates for Authorize Utility (WSQUOTA), AUTOGEN (logging, parameter values, dump file size, retired parameters), Backup Utility (image/incremental backups, ANALYZE/DISK, CD-ROM menu system issues), Batch and Print Queue Management (process rights, VMScluster environment, form feeding), DCL Commands (ANALYZE/ERRORLOG, MOUNT/UCSSEQUENCE), DECdtm Services (SCSNODE values), DECevent Fault Management (bit-to-text translation, log files, page file quota), DECnet for OpenVMS Alpha/VAX (Phase IV/V configurations), DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS (version support, browser TCP/IP, console broadcasts, virtual data errors), Help Message Utility, InfoServer MADDRIVER (magnetic tape support), INITIALIZE, Install Utility (installing images, PAKs on Alpha/VAX), Monitoring Performance History (MPH), Monitor Utility (MONITOR), Mount Utility (MOUNT), Nonpaged Pool, OPCOM, POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility (dependency loss, PRODUCT command issues, disk space reporting), POLYCENTER Striping (replaced by StorageWorks RAID), RMS Journaling, Security (auditing, intrusion services), Shared Linkage Sections, SORT32 Work Files, StorageWorks RAID Array 110 Subsystem, System Dump Analyzer (SDA), System Management Utility (SYSMAN), System Time, Terminal Fallback Facility (TFF), VAX 7000 Systems, VMScluster Systems, and VMSKITBLD.COM.
• Programming: Details on Batch and Print Queues, Debugger (performance, VMSDEBUG.DAT, stack corruption, CONNECT command, shared linkage, watchpoints, DCL commands), DEC C++, DEC C Run-Time Library (floating-point values, getenv, internationalization, math functions, file I/O), DECmigrate (translated image support), DECthreads (dynamic image-activation, exit handler, process termination), DECTPU for DECwindows Motif, DECwindows Motif Transport, Delta/XDelta Debugger, Device Support on OpenVMS Alpha/VAX Systems (driver compatibility, PCI DMA, SCSI changes), Librarian Utility, Linker Utility, Lock Manager, LTDRIVER, MACRO-32 Compiler, Mathematics (MTH$) Run-Time Library, Migration to OpenVMS Alpha Systems, POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility, Run-Time Libraries (unsupported Alpha libraries), Screen Management (SMG$), Security, STARLET Data Structures, System Services, System Time Operation, Translated Image Environment (TIE), Translated Run-Time Libraries, Translated VAX C Run-Time Library, Translated VAX COBOL Programs, VAX MACRO, and X/Open Transport Interface (XTI).
• Appendices: Lists remedial kits included and not included in OpenVMS Version 6.2, and provides preliminary layered product compatibility tables for VAX and Alpha systems with OpenVMS 6.2.

The manual is intended for all OpenVMS users to read before installing, upgrading, or using Version 6.2, and includes information relevant to both current and previous OpenVMS versions.