[Info-vax] VMS84*_UPDATE

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote 2011-02-25 13:19:
> In article<ik84fr$t97$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>  writes:
>> Is it a general problem with translated images or something
>> specific with your translated images ?
>
> Don't know. I have it, it is the only one, it had performance problems
> with V8.3-1H1 (don't know if I had the problems with 8.3 before), later
> an ECO fixed it (I should check if I had the VMS831H1I_IA64_TIE-V0100
> installed, as the name let me believe, it is for exactly this problem,
> but currently I don't remember having seen this ECO before - so far I
> guessed it was a VMS831H1I_SYS or a VMS831H1I_UPDATE or ...), and 8.4
> reintroduced the performance problem again (while on TUD it was claimed,
> that "8.4 is faster than 8.3" - where I said, sorry, no, not for me ;-).
>
> So, again, is this single observation (of me) the only hint, or has here
> anyone done anything (useful) with AEST and had the same observation?
> As there is no TIE ECO for 8.4, I think, my problem is very uncommon...
>

I think this in interesting with regard to the general discussion around
the "low quality" of the 8.4 release. I guess that in due time we will
be able to better say if 8.4 was that significaly different then any
other VMS release. So far I remember one larger bug reported by Guy
Peleg. I'm not fully convinced that the macro/debug bugs reported
by VAXman is that a show-stopper for the VMS userbase at large.

I'm not sure that the view from the paying customer base is fully
in line with what have been reported here on c.o.v.

As I remember from the TUD i Stockholm in Sep (I think it was) there
wasn't any major issues around the 8.4 release. Most of the larger
sites represented seemed to have been testing the FT of 8.4 for some
conciderable time and many of them was going to use 8.4 together
with the new IA64 blades. A very different picture then what
you could expect if you only listened to c.o.v... :-)