Just a thought.... Maybe we should be giving this to Interex since they are
our voice for the HP3000 systems...
Are you listening Denys?
Joe
> Sorry if you have already seen this but I was not sure if it made it to the
> list...
>
> Well, another "no thanks to HPQ' response center" but there is a very bright
> side to this story.
>
> It seems that I have been working lots of weekends lately at different HP3000
> sites. This weekend like last weekend is no exception.
> I want to first thank Rene Wok for his exceptional service to the HP
community.
> Rene has been busy with me for two weekends and he first has a very calming
> effect. I can bring any Image issue to him and he has the answers as a matter
> of fact during the initial conversation.
>
> In the time Rene sent the following e-mail and the time it took to download
> the patches we were back in business in less than three hours..
>
> and now for the rest of the story... We placed a call to HPQ.. got a call ID
> waited for 2 1/2 hrs for a call back to then be told we will have another
> engineer call us back shortly which was an additional 2 1/2 hrs...
> By the time we got the call back we were already up and running and repacking
> data.
>
>
>
> Oh and the engineer was not the most knowledgeable apple in the cart but did
> finally agree with Rene's fix... Please read below...
>
> Another thanks to Jeff Vance who I think maintains the website for Jazz..
>
> This time was an integer overflow error when attempting to run ADAGER and
> repack datasets. The problem was not an ADAGER tool problem it was an issue
> with 6.5 pp3.
>
> SNIP>>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adager Support (Rene Woc) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 10:47 AM
>
> How to detect the problem:
> > --------------------------
> >
> > :debug
> > cm
> > var foo cmtonmnode (mpefiletype + %27)
> > nm
> > dc foo, 7
> >
> > You'll see something like the following (I flagged the
> > bad instructions with "-->"):
> >
> > TRANS $22.1f66194
> > 01f66194 MPEFILETYPE+%27 4b7d0028 LDW 20(sr0,r27),r29
> > 01f66198 d06c1fc1 EXTRS r3,30,31,r12
> > 01f6619c d3bd1fc1 EXTRS r29,30,31,r29
>
>
> > --> 01f661a0 d4dd0a10 ZDEP r29,15,16,r6
> > --> 01f661a4 d58c0a10 ZDEP r12,15,16,r12
> > --> 01f661a8 0986d406 SUB,NSV r6,r12,r6
> > --> 01f661ac e680e5a0 BLE 720(sr7,r20)
> >
> > If you don't see the "SUB,NSV & BLE", then you don't have this problem.
> >
>
> Hewlett-Packard's response center has the problem documented under
> > SR: 8606232211 (KBRC00007442). The patch that we have noticed to
> > cause the problem is MPEKXX0. However, there could be other patches
> > with similar behavior.
>
>
> Problem description says:
> > ------------------------
> >
> > SL.PUB.SYS OCT retranslator - Due to a bug in the MPE patch process,
> > SL.PUB.SYS may sometimes be translated incorrectly, resulting in
> > possible program aborts. This AUTOPAT-based script will create a new
> > CSLT tape containing a correctly translated SL.PUB.SYS.
>
>
> > How to correct the problem:
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > Call HP's Response Center to obtain a solution.
> >
>
>
> > Alternatively, HP has a solution to the problem available from their
> > Jazz website.
> >
> > The URL for the AUTOPAT-based scripts is
> >
> > http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/scripts/sloctfix/
> >
> > Please read the INSTALL.txt file, and then download I00STRSL and M00STRSL to
> > your e3000 (if you don't have AUTOPAT laying around, download that file
> > too).
> >
> > Processing the STRSL files with AUTOPAT results in a new CSLT tape with a
> > correctly translated SL.PUB.SYS. Then UPDATE from the new CSLT to install
> > the fixed SL.PUB.SYS.
> >
> > --------------------------
> >
> > Your Adager version is OK, and will work normally once you re-octcomp
> > your system SL.
>
> Up and running at 1:30 PM
> > <<<<< SNIP end..
>
> Again many thanks to Rene Wok and ADAGER for the great work that they always
> do. 24/7......
>
> Regards
> Joe Dolliver
> 26 years and looking forward to homesteading in the future....
>
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