<<Delaying shipments of HP3000s because of the DBUTIL bug in
PowerPatch 5 doesn't make any sense to me.>>


It might.

        <<That's one we can work around.>>


Not necessarily. As we kind-of discussed last week, this doesn't look like a
problem with either DBUTIL or IMAGE, but smells like something in the file
system or storage management area. It could be a pretty serious problem, and
the DBUTIL erase operation just happens to cause it to show up, and in a
relatively benign fashion at that. If there is, in fact, something
fundamentally and seriously broken in the MPE/iX file system after PP5 is
installed, it makes perfect sense to me to stop delivering it to customers
until the defect is repaired.

Steve