After I received Mr. Burke's answer I called the HPRC. I was told by the
HPRC that you need to check the Express 3 (and 7) communicator and see if
any of your subsystems are effected. Image/SQL is not effected.  Many of the
fixes in the subsystems were incorporated in the later power patch releases.

As for PowerPatch 4, mine had a subsys tape with it.
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Tim Herrin
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 9:58 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New PowerPatch/Express Question


We are on 5.5 pp4 but never installed Express 3.  I called the HPRC and was
told


that as long as we don't have TurboStore we don't need to install Express 3,
pp
4 has everything we need.  Is this not correct?
--
Tim

John Burke wrote:

> You may be OK, but I would not vouch for your system. As far as how much
> trouble?
> It depends.
>
> For example, here are the contents of the Express-3 PROD/SUBSYS tape for
one
> of my systems:
>
>     1     HP31500         - COBOLII/IX
>     2     HP31502         - HP PASCAL
>     3     HP31506         - HP C/IX
>     4     HP32100         - SPL
>     5     HP32246         - INFORM/V
>     6     HP35360         - HP ALLBASE/BRW
>     7     HP36374         - AIF/OS
>     8     HP36385         - IMAGE/SQL
>     9     HP36920         - NS3000/XL NET SRV
>    10     B1787B          - HP GLANCEPLUS/IX
>
> The only things that would clearly be a concern are items 8 and 9.
>
> It is possible, though unlikely, that you do not need an Express-3 subsys
> tape (see
> in particular item 8). I would apply Express-3, reapplying PP6 (you might
as
> well make it PP7)
> as soon as possible.
>
> John Burke
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Joseph Rosenblatt
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 12:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: New PowerPatch/Express Question
>
> I was running 5.5 pp2. I installed PowerPatch 6. I never installed Express
> 3. Am I ok?