[Info-vax] Updated VMS Roadmap

[Guy Peleg]

On Jan 7, 2:24 pm, Marc Van Dyck <marc.vand... at brutele.be> wrote:
> on 7/01/2010, Guy Peleg supposed :
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> > On Jan 7, 6:33 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >> IanMiller wrote:
> >>> Note Previous vms release was V8.3-1H1 in Nov 2007
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> >> But that was just to add support for some new IA64 boxes (blades as I
> >> recall). It didn't add new functionality to VMS per say and didn't
> >> affect Alpha VMS.
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> > 8.3-1H1 contains many performance related changes and should be used
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> > anyone using Itanium. There are also few new features hidden in the
> > release
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> > Guy Peleg
> > Maklee Engineering
> >www.maklee.com
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> >> And that will be the same for 8.4HW which will be 8.4 with support for
> >> new hardware.
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> Is the migration from 8.3 to 8.3-1H1 a straightforward one, or should
> everything be re-tested again ? Can I consider migrating from 8.3
> to 8.3-1H1 like if I was just applying a set of patches ?

The migration from 8.3 to 8.3-1H1 is straightforward. Simple VMS
upgrade.
There is no need to recompile/relink your application after the
upgrade. Most
LPs should work, Rdb might be an exception, I'm not sure if they
require
an upgrade or not.

You might want to consider relinking your application using the
V8.3-1H1
Linker. On Itanium the linker generates some code and this code
generation
has been improved with the 8.3-1H1 linker  (you can also use the
8.3-1H1 linker
on 8.3).

As for testing, I advise to go through full testing cycle, even though
this
supposed to be a minor release, there multiple new features in it.

Guy Peleg
Maklee Engineering
www.maklee.com

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