 

 COMPAQ
                                                         AV-QD87T-TE
                                                          April 2002

 Dear HSM Customer,

 In an effort to provide enhanced storage management software capa-
 bility to our customers, Compaq offers this release of Compaq Hi-
 erarchical Storage Management (HSM) for OpenVMS[TM] Version V4.0A
 software. Thank you for your recent purchase of this product.

 HSM is a layered software product that extends the OpenVMS file
 system, allowing efficient and cost-effective management of infre-
 quently accessed (dormant) data. This is accomplished by shelving
 the data to lower-cost devices and automatically unshelving it
 when the data is needed.

 The change effected in HSM V4.0A includes a fix to the following
 problem reported by HSM customers:

 -  HSM does not trigger the Exceeded Diskquota policy (CFS.88316)

    With HSM versions prior to HSMA040 (BL42), the user diskquota
    exceeded policy did not trigger for the appropriate Rightsi-
    dentifier /UIC as specified in /OWNER qualifier. This has been
    fixed in the current release of HSM for the following oper-
    ations CREATE, OPEN, BACKUP, APPEND. Refer 2.3.19 in Known
    problems and Restrictions for information about COPY command
    and restriction relating to the above fix.

 For details on the bug fixes, please refer to the release notes.

 HSM for OpenVMS V4.0A software has been designed to run on OpenVMS
 VAX Versions 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and on OpenVMS Alpha Versions 6.2,
 7.1-2, 7.2-2 and 7.3. The kit you have received is a full release
 and includes both the VAX and Alpha versions of the software. HSM
 V4.0A does not utilize the ODS5 disk structure.

                                NOTE

   Storage Management makes every effort to be as current or
   correct as possible in qualifying our layered products on the
   Operating System (OS) versions. The use of a particular OS by
   a customer can only be guaranteed by the customer's contract
   with OpenVMS or by a specific service contract.

 The kit includes:

 -  HSM for OpenVMS, V4.0A software and documentation

 -  HSM Version 4.0A provides pdf formatted documents as part of
    the binary kit.

 -  MDMS for OpenVMS, V4.0A software and softcopy release notes.

 

 HSM V4.0A can be configured to run in one of two modes, Basic or
 Plus. If you are using HSM in the Plus mode, you will need to in-
 stall Media, Device and Management Services (MDMS) unless Archive
 Backup System (ABS) Version 4.0A software is already present on
 your system. MDMS is also required to use the tape repacking and
 backup via shelving features of HSM V4.0A. There is no additional
 charge for Plus mode.

 Remote access to tape devices in Plus Mode requires Remote De-
 vice Facility[TM] (RDF). RDF is available in the MDMS savesets of
 this kit. An RDF license is required. An RDF license is available
 through the purchase of Archive Backup System or directly from
 Touch Technologies Inc.

 HSM V4.0A is qualified to use MDMS V4.0A or MDMS V2.9F for its
 media manager. RDF V4.3G has been qualified for HSM V4.0A.

 For customers using Storage Library System (SLS) with HSM, we rec-
 ommend the use of MDMS V2.9F as the media manager. For customers
 using Archive Backup System (ABS) with HSM, we recommend the use
 of MDMS V4.0A. For HSM customers who are not using either ABS or
 SLS, we recommend the use of MDMS V4.0A with HSM V4.0A.

 For additional information, please refer to the product documen-
 tation. If you need assistance with this product, please call the
 Customer Support Center.

 Once again, thank you for your purchase of this product.

 Sincerely,

 OpenVMS Product Management
 CXOSWPM@compaq.com
 © 2002 Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P





















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