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

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 6/17/2015 12:31 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-06-16 20:11, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>
>> 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>.
>
> How come this problem was not seen when VMS changed from Digital to
> Compaq and then to HP ?

It was effectively the same company that owned VMS throughout those name changes;
PCSI would have viewed them as equal.  VSI is not HP.

For HP VMS V8.4 . . .

$ PROD SHOW PROD *VMS*

HP I64VMS OPENVMS V8.4               Platform    Installed
HP I64VMS VMS V8.4                   Oper System Installed

For VSI V8.4-1H1 . . .

VSI I64VMS OPENVMS V8.4-1H1          Platform    Installed
VSI I64VMS VMS V8.4-1H1              Oper System Installed

> And why would PCSI care ?
The HP layered products require the HP VMS platform;
the VSI layered products require the VSI VMS platform.

>  Does it now check that you have valid license before you install ?
No, it's not a license check.

> Or is it due to the checksum mechanism which was
> not present in previous onwership changes ?
See above -- it's the platform requirement of the layered product itself.

As stated earlier, any existing HP product installed on HP VMS V8.4 will continue to run
following an upgrade to VSI VMS V8.4-1H1, although it's unsupported by HP and VSI.

HP does not want to support something on a non-HP built operating system; VSI does not
want to support something we didn't build.

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                       -- Rob