Upgrade questions (VMS - everyone else delete now)

[Chris Sharman]

Yes, you're way out of support from Compaq.
We're using VMS 7.3 (+ lots of ECOs), TCPIP 5.1 ECO 3, DECnetIV, and PH
7.10.G3.
I believe VMS 7.3-1 is imminent, and should be a relatively stable roll-up
of all the VMS 7.3 ECOs.

VMS: I'd recommend waiting for 7.3-1, and then perhaps monitoring
comp.os.vms for a few weeks, or asking advice there. If you want to install
7.3, probably the most critical gotcha is the new XFC caching - it simply
doesn't work, and must be turned off - keep using the old VCC caching.
The next choice, if you want to be super-cautious, is VMS 7.2-2 - the latest
version into "Prior Version Support".

UCX/TCPIP: UCX has been rewritten & renamed for V5. We're not power users,
but we do use it in a mixed pc/mac/sun/vms environment, and it seems OK.
Go with 5.1 ECO 3 or 4.

DECnet: we use DECnet IV (not OSI) - as far as I know the main use is the
horrible Cognos Flexlm licencing - I've no idea whether it can work with
DECnet OSI, but we don't use DECnet so much that we want to learn a
completely new variation.

PH - pretty well independent of the rest: 7.10G3/4 fixes some significant
bugs over 7.10.G1 - I'd recommend it. 8.30 is available, but I've been too
snowed under to try it. Bill Michael said it was a fairly big change a few
weeks back. You need 8.40 I believe for PH web, and I don't think 8.40 is
available yet.

So yes, you should plan an upgrade, ideally this year, to VMS 7.3-1 + TCPIP
5.1 - you'll get better support that way. That said, there's plenty of folk
still on VMS 6.2 or even 5.5 - presumably not expecting too much from
Support, but not expecting many new problems either.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hoppe, Eric EP [mailto:eric.hoppe@steelscape-inc.com]
> Sent: 10 June 2002 16:54
> To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
> Subject: Upgrade questions
>
>
> All-
>
> We currently have: OpenVMS 7.1, UCX Ver 4.1 - ECO 9 on an AlphaServer 4000
> using PH 7.10G1.  Our current setup is working great, but we are
> starting to
> get hints from Compaq it is time to upgrade.
>
> I am under the impression in order to go to PH 8.x we need to
> upgrade to UCX
> 5.  I am also under the impression that UCX 5 does not support the RMS
> mailbox function which we use heavily.  I also think PH 8.x requires a
> higher ver of operating system.
>
> Before I start opening trouble tickets with the vendors, I thought I would
> fish out here in the ether for comments from anyone who has been through
> this already.
>
> Thanks and I hope there is enough info in this msg.
>
> ---ehops
>
> Eric Hoppe
> Steelscape, Inc.
> Senior Systems Analyst
> 360.673.8247
>
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