OpenVMS ALPDDTM02_071 Alpha V7.1 - V7.1-1H2 ECO Summary

TITLE: OpenVMS ALPDDTM02_071 Alpha V7.1 - V7.1-1H2 ECO Summary
 
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Copyright (c) Compaq Computer Corporation 1999.  All rights reserved.

Modification Date:  15-APR-99
Modification Type:  Updated Kit - Supersedes ALPDDTM01_071

OP/SYS:     DIGITAL OpenVMS Alpha

COMPONENT:  DTI$SHARE
            TPSERVE
            TRANSACTION_SERVICES

SOURCE:     Compaq Computer Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  ALPDDTM02_071
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  ALPDDTM01_071
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  1278 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS Alpha V7.1, V7.1-1H1, V7.1-1H2
     System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes
     Rolling Re-boot Supported:  Yes
     Installation Rating:  3 - To be installed on all systems running
                               the listed versions of OpenVMS which
                               are experiencing the problems described.

     Kit Dependencies:

       The following remedial kit(s) must be installed BEFORE
       installation of this kit:

         None.

       In order to receive all the corrections listed in this
       kit, the following remedial kits should also be installed:

         None.


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for TPSERV, Transactions services and DTI$SHARE on
OpenVMS Alpha V7.1 through V7.1-1H2.  This kit addresses the following
problems:

Problems Addressed in ALPDDTM02_071

  o  The TP_SERVER process hangs.

  o  ACMS SI, Rdb SQL and/or DECdtm $ADD_BRANCH(W) calls  fail  with
     the  error  IPC-E-BCKTRNSFAIL.   This problem occurs for DECnet
     PLUS, where  a  distributed  transaction  is  being  initiated.
     DECdtm  was  passing  a  node name to DECnet PLUS, requesting a
     DECnet PLUS equivalent node name.

  o  A SSRVEXCEPT (ACCVIO) in SYS$TRANSACTION_SERVICES  occurs  when
     an  RDB  recovery  process  is killed after it is identified as
     stalling the system.

  o  A machine crash occurred with a SSRVEXCEPT error at TPSERV+22800.


Problems Adddressed in ALPDDTM01_071

  o  An RDB/ACMS application was ported from OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS
     Alpha.   When the full user load was on the nodes, they
     intermittently crashed about once a day due to nonpaged pool
     corruption of 128 byte packets.

  o  System bootup cannot start TP_SERVER.   Manually starting it
     with DECDTM$STARTUP failed with STR-F-ERRFREDYN.

  o  Errors were returned by $START_TRANSW in a program compiled
     and linked with the symbolic debugger.  This problem was most
     frequently seen when the calling program was (using debugger)
     stepped through.  Some of the errors seen were ACCVIOs (PC was
     zero), $START_TRANSW returning SS$_BADPARAM, SS$_IVBUFLEN
     and/or the debugger signaling stack corruption in
     SHARE$LIBRTL_CODE0.  This problem was not seen if the async
     form of the service ($START_TRANS) was used.


INSTALLATION NOTES:

The images in this kit will not take effect until the system is
rebooted.  If there are other nodes in the VMScluster, they must
also be rebooted in order to make use of the new image(s).

If it is not possible or convenient to reboot the entire cluster at
this time, a rolling re-boot may be performed.

alpddtm02_071.README
alpddtm02_071.CHKSUM
alpddtm02_071.CVRLET_TXT
alpddtm02_071.a-dcx_axpexe