---------------------INFORMATION---------------------------------------

JANUARY, 1981----------------------------------------------------------

THE NEW YEAR IS GREETED BY A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF NEW PATCHES
FOR CP-V.

THE FILE 'SIDR-ABLE-PRODUCTS' HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN AN ATTEMPT TO
CLEAR UP SOME CONFUSION REGARDING L6 FEP SOFTWARE; VERSION C00
OF THE FEP SOFTWARE (707020) HAS BEEN RELEASED FOR 9 MONTHS
NOW, AND IS THE ONLY VERSION SUPPORTED OR SIDRABLE.

WITH THE RELEASE OF THE B02 VERSION OF THE DPSL (DIAGNOSTICS) THIS MONTH,
FILES CONTAINING PATCHES TO THE B01 VERSION HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SST.

DECEMBER, 1980---------------------------------------------------------

NOVEMBER, 1980---------------------------------------------------------

AS THERE WAS NO NEW INFORMATION TO INSERT IN THIS FILE LAST MONTH,
NO 'OCTOBER, 1980' LINE WAS CREATED. THIS CAUSED SOME USERS TO
SUSPECT A PROBLEM; HENCEFORTH WE WILL INSERT A MONTH EVEN IF WE
HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.

DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, A LARGE NUMBER OF SIDRS, AGAINST
OBSOLETE VERSIONS OF CP-V AND ITS PRINCIPLE PROCESSORS, APPEARED
IN 'SIDRS-CLOSED' AND IN THE SUBSEQUENT MICROFICHE SIDR REPORT.
THESE CLOSURES WERE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CP-V RE-PRIORITIZATION
PROJECT, INSTITUTED AT THE PHILADELPHIA EXCHANGE MEETING. THE
PROJECT IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE CP-V SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
(SIG), CHAIRED BY BILLY CLICK, OF S.F. AUSTIN UNIVERSITY. STEPS OF
THIS PROJECT, AS SUMMARIZED IN GENERAL TERMS, INCLUDE:
  -RE-PRIORITIZATION OF OPEN SIDRS AGAINST CURRENT VERSIONS OF CP-V
   AND ITS PRINCIPLE PROCESSORS (SEE THE JULY, 1980 ENTRY).
  -CLOSURE OF SIDRS AGAINST OBSOLETE VERSIONS; IF THE PROBLEMS REPORTED
   BE SENT IN AGAINST THE PROPER VERSION(S).
  -WHEN THE USERS HAVE FORMULATED THIS PRIORITIZED LIST, LADC
   WILL DEVOTE RESOURCES TO FIX THOSE PROBLEMS WHICH REPRESENT THE
   MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS.
RETURNS FROM THE USER COMMUNITY FROM THE RE-PRIORITIZATION EFFORT
HAVE BEEN A LITTLE SLOW; THE USER'S S.I.G. IS SENDING ANOTHER
LETTER TO ALL USERS, URGING PARTICIPATION IN THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT.

THE FILE 'ELLA_LOAD', AS RELEASED ON SST'S SINCE SEPTEMBER, WILL
RESULT IN A LOAD MODULE WITH SEVERITY LEVEL 3. THIS DOES NO HARM,
AND IS A RESULT OF AN 'OB' OPTION, WHEN 'SEG' IS NEEDED. THE FILE
'ELLA_LOAD' HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM 'OB' TO 'SEG' ON THIS SST.

SEPTEMBER, 1980--------------------------------------------------------

THIS SST CONTAINS AN ENTIRE NEW F01 RELEASE OF THE CP-V ERROR LOG
LIST/ANALYSIS PROGRAM, 'ELLA'. THE PURPOSE OF THE NEW RELEASE IS
TO PROPERLY HANDLE THE NEW MOS MEMORY M128 VERSION (AS OPPOSED TO
THE ORIGINAL M16 VERSION). IF YOU HAVE THE NEW MOS, YOU *MUST* USE
THE NEW ELLA VERSION; ANYONE ELSE *SHOULD* USE THE NEW VERSION.
RELEASE FILES INCLUDE COMPRESSED SOURCE FILES 'ELLAROOT_CI' AND
'ELLASUM_CI'. (THE OTHER 3 MODULES OF ELLA WERE NOT CHANGED).
FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, ALL 5 ELLA ROMS ARE INCLUDED: 'ELLAROOT',
'ELLACSL','ELLATMD','ELLASUM', AND 'ELLADSP'.
ELLA MUST BE LOADED WITH MONSTK. A SAMPLE JCL DECK IS ALSO
INCLUDED, 'ELLA_LOAD'.
THERE IS A NEW MONITOR ROOT PATCH REQUIRED FOR THIS NEW ELLA.
THE PATCH DOES NO HARM FOR SYSTEMS WITHOUT THE NEW ELLA, SO IT
IS NOT A CONDITIONAL PATCH. UNTIL THIS PATCH CAN BE TESTED AND
RELEASED  WITH THE OFFICIAL 'CHRONO-F00' AND 'F00PATCH' FILES,
IT IS INCLUDED ON THIS SST IN FILE 'ELLA_PATCH' FOR YOUR
NEEDED WITH THE F01   ELLA, SO THOSE GENMD'S HAVE BEEN MADE
CONDITIONAL ON THE SYMBOLS 'ELLAF00' AND 'ELLAF01'. IN BOTH THE
OFFICIAL PATCH FILE ('F00PATCH') AND THE USER-SUPPLIED-PATCHES
FILES ('SELECT-USERS' AND 'PATCH-USERS'), 'ELLAF00' IS SET TO 1
AND 'ELLAF01' IS UNSET. HAVE NO FEAR OF PROBLEMS WITH THIS
CONDITIONAL GENMD'ING; AS ELLA F01 IS MODIFIED, EXISTING F00
ELLA GENMDS WILL BE REJECTED BECAUSE OF THE WRONG REPLACED
INSTRUCTIONS; ONLY GENMD'S TO THE PATCH AREA WILL BE ENTERED, BUT
THOSE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NEVER  BE REACHED.

AUGUST, 1980-----------------------------------------------------------

THE AUGUST SST REVERTS TO THE TRADITIONAL FORMAT AND CONTENTS;
'SIDRLIST' AND 'SORTLIST' HAVING SERVED THEIR PURPOSE.

USERS OF THE NEW CPVEXERCISERS SHOULD APPLY THE LATEST PATCHES
THERETO. SEE THE NEW FILE 'NEWCPVEXPATCH' ON THIS SST.


JULY, 1980-------------------------------------------------------------

THE USER ACCEPTANCE OF 'CHRONO-USERS','SELECT-USERS', AND 'PATCH-
USERS' HAS BEEN SO GREAT THAT WE SEE NO REASON TO CONTINUE THE
FILE 'USERFIX'. IF THIS INCONVENIENCES YOU, PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR
FIELD ENGINEERING CONTACT; WE WILL RECONSIDER THE DECISION.

AS PROMISED AT THE EXCHANGE MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA, THIS SST HAS
TWO FILES FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE IN ANALYZING AND RE-PRIORITIZING
ALL OPEN SIDRS AGAINST CP-V AND ITS SUPPORTED PROCESSORS. A LETTER
FROM YOUR EXCHANGE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN WILL EXPLAIN WHAT ACTION YOU
SHOULD TAKE. THE FILES ARE 'SIDRLIST', A KEYED EBCDIC FILE CONTAINING
A FULL LISTING OF ALL OPEN SIDRS AGAINST CP-V AND ITS PRINCIPAL
SUPPORTED PROCESSORS. THE FILE 'SORTLIST' IS A KEYED FILE
SIDR NUMBER, AND PRINCIPAL CATALOG NUMBER. THIS  FILE'S RECORDS
ARE SORTED BY INSTALLATION NUMBER; YOUR SIDRS WILL BE GROUPED BY
YOUR INSTALLATION NUMBER. THESE FILES WERE CREATED 6/17/80, AND
REFLECT THE SIDR DATABASE OF THAT DATE.

TO ACCOMODATE THOSE MASSIVE FILES, SOME OF THE OLD FAVORITES HAD
TO BE DROPPED FROM THIS MONTH'S SST (ONLY). AS THE SIDR LISTINGS
ARE FOR THIS MONTH ONLY, THE GOODIES DROPPED FROM THIS SST WILL
RETURN NEXT MONTH.

JUNE, 1980----------------------------------------------------------

MAY, 1980--------------------------------------------------------------

THIS MONTH'S SST CONTAINS THE NEW AND BETTER CP-V EXERCISERS.
SEE 'EXERCISER-INFO' TO START WITH.

A NEW VARIETY OF A USER-SUPPLIED PATCH FILE HAS BEEN ADDED THIS MONTH.
SELECT-USERS IS A FILE, ORGANIZED AS A PATCH FILE WITH MONITOR
OVERLAY CARDS, ETC, CONTAINING USER-SUPPLIED (UNOFFICIAL, OR 'INTERIM
FIX') PATCHES. CHRONO-USERS CONTINUES AS A CHRONOLOGICALLY-ORDERED
FILE OF USER-SUPPLIED PATCHES; PATCH-USERS CONTINUES AS A PATCH-
ORGANIZED FILE WHICH COMBINES THE OFFICIAL LADC PATCHES WITH THE
USER-SUPPLIED PATCHES FROM SELECT-USERS.

APRIL, 1980------------------------------------------------------------

THIS SST CONTAINS THE LONG-AWAITED COBOL VERSION F04. SEE FILE
'BLDCOB' FOR SKELETON INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION. FOR MORE
DETAILED INFORMATION, THE FILE '-61F04' IS INCLUDED. THIS LATTER
FILE IS A COMPLETE -61 FOR COBOL F04. REFERENCES THEREIN TO LT#MCFA
AND TO ACCOUNTS SUCH AS :COBBO, ETC., ARE, OF COURSE, NOT APPLICABLE
TO THIS SST RELEASE.

THIS F04 RELEASE OF COBOL INCLUDES PREFORMED LOAD MODULES AND
LIBRARIES ('COBOL',':LIB', AND 'BLIB:').



THE SIDR DATABASE HAS BEEN REPAIRED! THE FILES 'SIDRS-CLOSED' AND
'SIDRS-OPENED' ON THIS SST REFLECT ACTIVITY FROM 1/1/80 TO 3/1/80.

FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS, THE SST HAS INCLUDED A SET OF SOURCE
UPDATES (UP:VOLINIT) FOR THE CP-V ONLINE VOLINIT PROCESSOR, AND A
PRECOMPILED ROM FOR THE SAME (BO:VOLINIT). WE HAVE NOW ASCERTAINED
THAT THE SUPPLIED ROM IS NOT THE ONE WHICH WOULD COME FROM A GOOD
ASSEMBLY OF VOLINIT.:F00CI AND THE SI FILE. THE SI UPDATES ARE
CORRECT; THE ROM, UP UNTIL THIS SST, HAS BEEN BAD.

***PLEASE*** READ THE FILE 'KPF-F00' ON THIS SST. DUE TO
CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL THERE ARE IMPROPER PATCHES IN THE
'OFFICIAL' PATCH FILES ('CHRONO-F00' AND 'F00PATCH').

THIS MONTH'S SST CONTAINS A LARGE, UNOFFICIAL PATCH IN 'CHRONO-USERS'
AND IN 'PATCH-USERS', WHICH PROVIDES A LOT OF HELP FOR USERS OF
MPC TAPE DRIVES AND MPC DISKS. NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT A PORTION OF
THIS MAJOR PATCH SET (LABELLED E-001) REQUIRES A NEW SYSGEN.

NEW SOFTWARE FOR THE FEP (L6 COC REPLACEMENT), VERSION C00, IS
NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE LADC SOFTWARE LIBRARY. NOTE THAT THIS NEW
FEP SOFTWARE ALSO REQUIRES A NEW SYSGEN.

FEBRUARY, 1980---------------------------------------------------------

ONE OF THE NEW PATCHES FOR THIS MONTH, #32567, IS WORTHY OF A
SPECIAL NOTE. IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE HARDWARE ERROR
DETECTION AND CORRECTION (EDAC) ON RMP DISCS CAN SOMETIMES FAIL TO
PROPERLY CORRECT AN ERROR. MOST OCCASSIONS OF THIS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT
BY EDMS, WHICH IS THE ONE PROCESSOR WHICH DOES AN INDEPENDENT
CHECKSUM OF ITS DATA. IF EDMS HAS DETECTED THESE FAILURES, THEN IT
IS POSSIBLE THAT OTHER ERRORS HAVE GONE UNDETECTED.

ALSO STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT THE ENTIRE FILE SYSTEM BE SAVED, THE
PACKS FRESHLY VOLINITED, AND THE FILE SYSTEM RESTORED FROM SCRATCH
UNDER THE SYSTEM WITH THESE PATCHES INSTALLED.

THE EFFECT OF THE PATCHES IS TO ELIMINATE THE HARDWARE EDAC OF THE
RMP DISK PACKS, AND TO SUBSTITUTE THE SOFTWARE ERROR RETRY SCHEMA
WHICH IS UTILIZED FOR ALL OTHER RMS DEVICES.

SIDRS-OPENED AND SIDRS-CLOSED THIS MONTH ARE DEVOID OF ENTRIES.
THIS IS NOT DUE TO A LACK OF SIDRS, BUT A FAILURE IN THE
DATABASE, WHICH IS STILL BEING RESTORED  AS OF THIS SST CREATION.

JANUARY,1980-----------------------------------------------------------

BY POPULAR REQUEST, WE HAVE INCLUDED A CHRONO AND A PATCH FILE
WHICH CONTAIN USER-SUPPLIED PATCHES. THESE UNOFFICIAL AND
UNSUPPORTED FILES CONTAIN USER-SUPPLIED PATCHES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN
VERIFIED BY HONEYWELL, THEREFORE, EXTREME CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED
IN USING THEM. THE FILES, 'CHRONO-USERS' AND 'PATCH-USERS', ARE
NOT SIDRABLE. IF ANY PROBLEMS SHOULD ARISE FROM THEIR USE, PLEASE
NOTIFY YOUR FIELD ENGINEERING CONTACT (SOFTWARE SPECIALIST OR
RESPONSE CENTER AS APPROPRIATE) OF THE PROBLEM.

THIS NEW DECADE'S SST CONTAINS SOME REVISED USER'S GROUP LIBRARY FILES;
SEE $$USERINFO AND 'HELP'.

