OpenVMS__ABS ABSE01022 Archive/Backup System for OpenVMS ECO Summary

NOTE: An OpenVMS saveset or PCSI installation file is stored on the Internet in a self-expanding compressed file. The name of the compressed file will be kit_name-dcx_vaxexe for OpenVMS VAX or kit_name-dcx_axpexe for OpenVMS Alpha. Once the file is copied to your system, it can be expanded by typing RUN compressed_file. The resultant file will be the OpenVMS saveset or PCSI installation file which can be used to install the ECO. Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1998. All rights reserved. Modification Date: 05-Jun-1998 Modification Type: New ECO kit. PRODUCT: Archive/Backup System OP/SYS: OpenVMS VAX OpenVMS Alpha SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation ECO INFORMATION: ECO Kit Name: ABSE01022 ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit: None ECO Kit Approximate Size: 74258 Blocks Saveset A - 702 Blocks Saveset B - 16938 Blocks Saveset C - 4518 Blocks Saveset D - 22338 Blocks Saveset E - 14490 Blocks Saveset F - 15246 Blocks Kit Applies To: Archive/Backup System v2.1 through V2.2 Archive/Backup System - OMT V2.1 OpenVMS VAX V6.1 through V7.1 OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 through V7.1-1H2 NOTE: This kit automatically installs the correct images for your type of system (VAX or Alpha). System/Cluster Reboot Necessary: No (See Installation Notes) ECO KIT SUMMARY: An ECO kit exists for Archive/Backup System V2.2 on OpenVMS VAX V6.1 through V7.1 and OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 through V7.1-1H2. This kit addresses the following problems: Problems Addressed in ABSE01022: o The NT Client was not Y2K compliant. The Gtar image used for the NT client has been fixed to support Y2K. o ABS SHOW RESTORE was displaying destination twice. The extra display of destination was removed from ABS SHOW RESTORE. o ABS SHOW <object> was displaying EXECUTE access in the access control fields. This field can not be set using ABS. ABS SHOW <object> no longer displays EXECUTE access. o %ABS-E-SETRESTOREERR, error setting restore request error received when attempting to set a restore request after updating to ABS V2.2. This occured if the ABS SET RESTORE command did not specify the /STORAGE_CLASS qualifier. In V2.1, ABS startup defined the logical name ABS_DEF_ARCH_CLASS to SYSTEM_BACKUPS. The DCL code was referencing this logical to determine the default storage class for the restore. This has been fixed in ABSE01022. o The template file VMS_BACKUP-2.INCREMENTAL_ARCHIVE_TEMPLATE incorrectly placed the /NOPRESHELVED/NOSHELVED qualifiers after the AGENT_OPTIONS field. This prevented you from overriding these qualifiers on a save request. The /NOPRESHELVED/NOSHELVED qualifiers have been placed before the AGENT_OPTIONS field so that you may specify agent_options to override the qualifiers on a save request. o When an error occurred in a save request (either in the save request itself or in an epilogue file), ABS would fail to unlock the volume set and would loop forever waiting for the volume to become available. This would only happen if the retry option was set and the retry interval was approximately 15 minutes. o The ABS GUI did not allow you to enter a catalog name which was not listed in the CREATE/MODIFY STORAGE POLICY window. This prevented you from entering a catalog from a VMS client. This was changed. There is now an OTHER selection which then allows you to enter a catalog name which is not listed. o In the ABS GUI, there were some fields in the storage class tape options screen which should be uppercased. If you entered a media type in lower case, then your save would fail to find the media type. o Setting /LATEST_COPY on a RESTORE request using ABS RESTORE or ABS SET RESTORE, failed to set that option. o The ABS GUI would receive an ACCVIO if you attempted to add more than 8 objects to a save request. The ABS GUI now prevents you from entering more than 8 objects to the save request. ABS does not allow more than 8 objects in a save request. o The ABS GUI was not correctly setting the high and low limit dates on a restore. o The ABS GUI was missing a window where you could set an EXPLICIT INTERVAL. This window has been added to the GUI. o When restoring a disk or files from a multiple tape saveset, ABS would hang. The data had been completely restored, but the Coordinator process would never exit. o When a storage class was created or set using the ABS GUI, and you listed multiple drives in the tape options window, the save requests would only use the first drive in the list. The save would never attempt to use another drive if the first one was unavailable. o If you set a save request to /SCHEDULE=MONTHLY using the ABS SET SAVE command, the scheduler job was incorrectly set to "F Q M" for the schedule interval.This has been corrected in ABSE01022. It now sets the scheduler job to "M 1". o ABS SET SAVE/START_TIME was not updating the scheduler job. The format of the date/time string was constructed incorrectly. This is fixed in ABSE01022. o The ABS GUI was returning an ACCVIO if you attempted to delete a storage class which has catalog references. An error message which says that you may not delete the storage class with catalog references is now displayed. o ABS had hardcoded process quotas for the backup agent subprocess and the staging catalog unpack process. This prevented the user from changing the quotas if desired. We now retrieve the quotas from the ABS account. If you raise the quotas for the ABS account, ABS will now use those for the subprocesses. o ABS SET ENVIRONMENT/DATA_SAFETY=CRC was failing to set CRC. o When updating from ABS V2.1n to V2.2, if you were using a tape written by V2.1n, if you did a UNIX or NT backup to that same tape with V2.2, ABS wrote to the beginning of the tape, overwriting previously saved data. INSTALLATION NOTES: After installing this kit, it is necessary to restart ABS for all of the changes to take effect. For a mixed-architecture configuration or other heterogeneous VMScluster configurations, the kit must be installed on each node having its own SLS$ROOT directory structure.

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Files on this server are as follows:

abse01022.README
abse01022.CHKSUM
abse01022.a-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.a-dcx_vaxexe
abse01022.b-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.b-dcx_vaxexe
abse01022.c-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.c-dcx_vaxexe
abse01022.d-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.d-dcx_vaxexe
abse01022.e-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.e-dcx_vaxexe
abse01022.f-dcx_axpexe
abse01022.f-dcx_vaxexe