My experience coincides with Gilles'. Every time since at least mid-5.5
times, when I've applied a PowerPatch using Patch/iX, the "User Version"
changes to reflect the PowerPatch number.

Are you sure you used Patch/iX? I ask this because when I went from 5.5 PP7
to 6.0 PP2 on three machines, I did it in one step using autoinst (the
recommended by HP way - see the manual). Using Patch/iX to immediately apply
PP2 after the upgrade to 6.0 would have taken needless extra time. The "User
Version" on these machines is C.60.00 while the "User Version" on a system
that was upgraded from 6.0 PP1 to 6.0 PP2 using Patch/iX reports C.60.02.

BTW, perhaps someone can confirm this, but if you change USERVERSION in
SYSGEN, I believe it only takes effect if you create an SLT and then update
from it. It does not take effect through a simple SHUTDOWN/START NORECOVERY.

John Burke

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brandt [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] confirm 6.0 pp 2 please?
> 
> 
> At 02:59 PM 1/16/2001 -0500, Gilles Schipper wrote:
> >Curious.
> >
> >I believe, when going from 5.5pp7 to 6.0pp2, unless you are 
> using cd for
> >the update, you must first use autoinst to update your FOS.
> >
> >After that you can use autoinst or patch/ix to apply powerpatch 2.
> 
> You are right, you have to use autoinst to go from 5.5 to 
> 6.0, then use
> patch/ix for the powerpatch.
> 
> I don't know why the user version stayed at C.60.00 for Tracy 
> and me, and
> went to C.60.02 for you. However, someone from HP said in 
> reply to Tracy's
> message that the only to update the user version is through 
> sysgen, that
> autoinst and patch/ix do not update it. Your experience seems 
> to contradict
> this, unless there are different versions of patch/ix out there.
> 
>