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The Question is: I am setting up a refurbished digital personal workstation 600au with openvms v7.1-1h1. I have the operating system loaded and also the ceric software called visicer. In the software visicer when i go to access different windows, (a window with the head ing DECterm:) I get the following error: %DECW-E-TIMEOUT_CONTROL, Timeout waiting for DECterm controller to start. I have the following loaded on the computer: dec axpvms decnet_phase_IV v7.1-1h1 full lp dec axpvms dwmotif v1.2-4 full lp dec axpvms openvms v7.1-1h1 platform dec axpvms ucx v4.2-21 full lp dec vms 7.1-1h1 oper system What do I need to do to solve this problem? Thanks The Answer is : What you should -- and will -- want to do to use this particular hardware configuration is upgrade your software and core products. Specifically, please upgrade to supported OpenVMS Alpha, TCP/IP Services, and DECwindows configurations. You are running a hardware release, a practice that the OpenVMS Wizard strongly discourages once the mainline release is available -- and all new installations of old hardware releases is very strongly discouraged. In this case (as of this writing), six subsequent mainline OpenVMS Alpha releases are available, two subsequent DECwindows Motif releases, and four TCP/IP Services releases. Your software configuration is old and also happens to be a very early (hardware-release) software configuration for the specified hardware configuration, in other words. For information on what has been resolved subsequent to this release, please see the dozen or more release notes and new features files. If you insist on running this configuration -- something that the OpenVMS Wizard strongly discourages -- you will want to apply the ECO kits for the products in use. (This will be a large number of kits and -- because none of these product versions are presently supported in this particular software and hardware configuration -- will also be missing various of the more recent ECO kits.)
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