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DDX bug gets partial fix
HP sends patch into general release for databases
without ODBC
and b-tree needs
HP 3000 database labs manager Jon Bale announced
that one part
of a solution to the TurboIMAGE DDX bug has been put into
general
release, while a more comprehensive fix is back in a second
round
of beta testing.
The solution offers a new version of TurboIMAGE and
IMAGE/SQL,
C.06.23, in which using dynamic detail datasets (DDX)
doesn’t
put the database’s integrity at risk. HP had reported
in November
that it learned dataset corruption could take place under some
infrequent conditions. Seven customers reported their databases
were damaged while DDX was employed. (See our story on page one
of the December, 1997 NewsWire.)
Bale reported that patch ID TIXKX11A was put in
general release
in mid-January, offering HP 3000 database administrators a
fresh
version of TurboIMAGE to solve the problem. The patch is
suitable
for any systems running MPE/iX 5.0 or MPE/iX 5.5 prior to
Express
release 3 – but the version of TurboIMAGE that it
provides does
not include either ODBCLink/SE functionality or b-tree
indices.
The patch to repair those versions of TurboIMAGE,
C.07.07, “was
found to be defective, although no customer who installed the
patch encountered the problem,” Bale’s posting
reported. Conflicts
with the jumbo dataset capabilities of TurboIMAGE were
discovered
by the CSY database labs once this patched version was in beta
test.
The labs have created a replacement for C.07.07,
TurboIMAGE
C.07.09. HP reported that customers who had been given the
C.07.07
patches have been notified that they should take and use
C.07.09
instead.
Bale noted that customers who want to forego the
ODBC and b-tree
capabilities of TurboIMAGE can use the repaired C.06.23 version
of the database. Meanwhile, patched versions of the
database with
those capabilities are available for both MPE/iX 5.0 and
5.5 systems,
but only in beta status as of presstime. Customers should ask
HP’s Response Center for patches TIXKX45A for MPE/iX
5.0 and TIXKX45B
for MPE/iX 5.5.
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