[Info-vax] Another "automatic update"

[Dave Froble]

On 3/27/2019 10:49 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-03-27 14:11:15 +0000, Jan-Erik Sderholm said:
>
>> Den 2019-03-27 kl. 14:57, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
>>
>>> Not that VSI even advertises that they have patches.
>>
>> I do not understand, I get regular mails about new pacthes from VSI.
>
> There's a difference between patch notifications sent strictly to
> existing support customers, and advertising materials made available to
> former and potential new customers.
>
> Patch notifications and update notifications are advertisements for the
> work underway at VSI, as much as they're notifications.
>
> These are low-budget efforts, and particularly with a little wording
> added to each of the the notifications.
>
> Trying to determine out what some patches, changes and enhancements were
> intended to resolve or to provide has often been a challenge.
>
> It was probably obvious to the developer, but...
>
> Not that DEC/Compaq/HP/HPE/VSI seemingly grokked that all of the
> published materials can be and variously are advertisements.
>
>> And besides, this was an Windows patch (I think, Dave can't spell).
>
> The discussions around more quickly rolling in patches also includes
> OpenVMS.

Correct.  Not saying I have any solution, because security patches are 
important, but, when something totally outside your control takes down 
your production, that also is rather serious.

The task uses a third party toolset for socket communications.  From the 
vendor:

This isn't something we've had reported by anyone else, but the error 
itself is something that's reported back to us from the TCP/IP stack and 
we propagate it back up to your application.

Best guess, something in the TCP/IP stack had a problem.  Not saying 
it's impossible, but I don't see how the application program could have 
caused it.

As for spelling Jan-Erik, according to Brian, WEENDOZE is the correct 
spelling.


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