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The Question is: I am looking at potential issues from upgrading our OpenVMS 7.1 to 7.3-1, specifically with applications that are utilizing FMS, TDMS and/or DECforms (we have all three). Are there issues with layered products such as LSE, CMS or Fortran 77 & 90 or should these continue to operate pretty much "as-is" under OpenVMS 7.3? Thanks! Rusty Ferrell Special Metals Corporation rferrell@smcwv.com The Answer is : Open-ended questions are exceedingly difficult to answer. Is it expected to work? Yes. Will your particular combination of applications, (unspecified) product versions, and site-specific configuration work? Likely, but -- if you are concerned enough to ask this question -- you will want to consider performing local testing and you will certainly want to maintain your backups in a good and complete state. Why is this question difficult? We have encountered problems with a few applications due to the improved I/O on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3, and due to various other performance enhancements. Put another way, we have encountered latent bugs within applications -- if a buggu applications is critical to your environment, the stability of OpenVMS itself is not relevent. And yes, we have encountered (and have fixed) bugs within OpenVMS itself. On the whole, OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 has been quite reliable, and the OpenVMS Wizard makes heavy use of it in large and complex cluster configurations. As for upgrading your layered products, please see the Software Product Rollout Report for the supported product versions. (To find a pointer to this document, search for swroll in the FAQ.)
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