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

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 5:24:56 PM UTC-4, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
> That would seem like an excellent starting point.
> 
> And yet... earlier today in this very thread, Paul Anderson wrote this:
> "Some VSI versions of layered products (CMS for example) also include
> fixes made by HP since the last product release, but not made available
> in a released version until now."
> 
> Nothing i4-related in there, is there???? 

No, nothing for i4.

Simply the case that some customer reported a bug against a product.  The bug was fixed by HP, a kit was provided to the customer, and the change was checked into the source area.  In some cases, HP did not provide any ECOs for the product that would have rolled up all those fixes.  [Paul isn't here today, but I'm surprised that he said CMS was like that since there have been "recent" ECOs for DECSET.]

In the compiler space, there are ECO kits for COBOL, Fortran, and C++ from HP.  However, I also found a few bug fixes in BASIC and Pascal but there has never been an ECO for either of those compilers.  Those fixes are included in the VSI branded versions since I built from the current sources.