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OP/SYS: OpenVMS VAX

COMPONENT: DCL

SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

CSCPAT Kit: CSCPAT_1009 V1.6 (CSCPAT_1009016)
CSCPAT Kit Size: 720 blocks
Engineering Cross Reference: DCL$04_U1055
DCL$01_U2055
DCL$02_U3054
Kit Applies To: OpenVMS VAX V5.4-3, V5.5, V5.5-1, V5.5-2


ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO (patch) kit exists for DCL for OpenVMS VAX V5.4-3 through
V5.5-2. This kit addresses the following problems:

o When using the DCL commands 'SET PREFIX' and 'SET VERIFY'
to pass an expanded command line that contains more than
256 characters to a nested command procedure, the process
terminates with an ACCVIO error.

o F$CONTEXT lexical function generates an access violation
(ACCVIO) with null argument.

o A repeated logical name assignment of SYS$OUTPUT fails, but
no message is displayed. If the global symbol $STATUS is
checked after the ASSIGN or DEFINE command, it has the value
"%X000184D4". This message number translates to:

%RMS-E-DME, dynamic memory exhausted

o The DCL lexical function 'F$SEARCH' incorrectly returns a null
string when invoked from a subroutine 31 times. This can cause
the process to run out of dynamic memory storage.

o When a SPAWNed subprocess is logged off, the channel assigned
to its mailbox from the parent process is not released.

o When a SPAWN command fails with a SYMTOOLNG error, garbage
characters are shown for the name of the symbol.

o BATCH job terminates with NOHANDLER and ACCVIO error if the
CALL command is the last command in the BATCH command procedure.

o A DCL-W-USGOTO error is returned on a branch to a label whose
first four characters are DECK. This message is also returned
when a symbol beginning with DECK is placed between a branch
to a label and the label, regardless of the label name.

o The %DCL-W-USGOTO error is returned if the DCL command
'DECK/DOLLARS' is used in a command procedure with the DCL
GOTO statement.

o When a command procedure invokes another command procedure
that contains a continuation character (e.g., '-') as the
last character of the last line, the command procedure will
loop indefinitely.

o DCL generates an ACCVIO error when aborting a user mode image
using the CTRL/Y key and an ON ERROR condition is set up before
invoking the image.

o BATCH or DETACHED job that spawns a subprocess (by using
either the DCL command 'SPAWN' or running a program that calls
the library routine LIB$SPAWN) terminates with an EXQUOTA or
EXBYTLM error.

o Subprocess hangs during logout if it was spawned with a
different UIC.


RELATED ARTICLES:

Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist
in the VMS database. To view these articles, open the appropriate
product database and perform a query using the search string
'CSCPAT_1009'.


ECO KIT ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:

If after an evaluation you wish to obtain this kit, request it
electronically using the appropriate Advanced Electronic Services
(AES) Service Tool. If you are not familiar with how to request
kits electronically, open the DIA, WIS or DSNLINK database and
review the article entitled:

[AES] How To Electronically Request ECO (Patch) Kits Using Service Tools


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

The system/cluster does not need to be rebooted after this kit is
installed. However, users should log out then log back in for the
kit changes to take effect.
  
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