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What Products are Installed? (take II)

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The Question is:

 
I need to find all the versions of the products
 on my Alpha's and the LMF displays everything
as a zero version. The only two ways I have
found versions is starting the software and
invoking sho ver or typing the help file for a
 release number. Is there an easy way to find
version numbers? Does VMS OS install all these
products and list the versions in a cryptic
format?

The Answer is :

 
  Please see the existing discussions of this topic here in Ask The
  Wizard, such as "What products are Installed?", "What products do
  I need?" and "Determining which ECOs have been installed?".
 
  A license product authorization key (PAK) is what you are looking
  at in LMF, and a PAK can optionally be tied to a product version.
  Most PAKs are not tied to product versions.
 
  With OpenVMS Alpha systems, the two mechanisms used to determine the
  products and versions installed are the PRODUCT SHOW PRODUCT command
  and the VMSINSTAL.HISTORY database -- products are generally (but not
  always) installed with either PCSI (PRODUCT command) or with VMSINSTAL,
  and both of these tools provide historical information on OpenVMS Alpha.
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 22-JAN-1999 )
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