[Info-vax] Layered products, the HP view !?!

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 6/16/2015 5:00 PM, clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:

> I'll give this a shot. On HP V8.4 you will find layered product xyz. If you
> do a LICENSE SHOW you will see that the producer is "HP". On our release
> V8.4-1H1 you may also find that same layered product xyz but its producer is
> "VSI" which we obviously support.
>
> HP will not support HP-branded products on 1H1. So, if VSI is not currently
> shipping a VSI-branded version of a product and you continue to run your
> HP-branded version, HP will not support it.
>
> Slightly clearer than mud, I hope. We've been answering these questions for
> months now so we should be getting better by now.

Opening up the rat's nest even more . . .

There is also the distinction between PCSI and VMSinstallable products.

An HP-provided layered product that uses PCSI ***WILL NOT INSTALL***
on V8.4-1H1 as things are currently configured.  The HP product will
require HP VMS <mumble>, and the VSI operating system is VSI VMS <mumble>.

The producer is the issue for PCSI, and required a lot of tap-dancing and
beneath the sheets machinations to get the HP VMS-to-VSI VMS upgrade to work 
correctly.  Thank you, Richard Bishop!

For VMSINSTAL, this is likely not an issue, as VMSINSTAL does not by default
check to see who provided the operating system, although an author
of KITINSTAL.COM could put anything they want in there as a preinstallation
check.

For any HP layered product installed on HP-provided V8.4 that is
then upgraded to V8.4-1H1, it should continue to work but it is not
supported by either HP or VSI.

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                  -- Rob