[Info-vax] OpenVMS IA64 V8.2 - Failing to reboot automatically

[Ivan Lowe]

We have a number of Itaniums running ovms 8.2.  A new "bug" seems to
have materialised since the start of this year whereby these systems
won't reboot automatically.  The system starts booting up VMS but then
requires the date to be re-entered.

At first I thought this was an issue with the battery on the
motherboard but have found that if the date is say 1-JAN-2004 the
system will reboot fine - but when put back to 2009 the problem
reoccurs.

Is this a hardware or software issue - anyone?  If a software issue -
is there an easily administered s/w patch for it.