Multinet and VMS upgrades

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

Gang --

Currently at VMS 7.3-2, Multinet 4.4 with lots of patches. I'll be upgrading
VMS over the holiday on my DS20E. Using Apache, PMDF, etc.

How big a hassle is the Multinet 4.4 - 5.1 upgrade? Am I looking at big
trouble? What if I _don't_ upgrade? Will the VMS upgrade break Multinet?

Thanks,

-- Alan

[Mo Boukantar]

What are you upgrading VMS to? If to 8.x then I suggest you go ahead
and upgrade Multinet as well, since upgrading VMS to a major version will
also necessitate that you re-install 4.4.

The upgrade to 5.1 from 4.4 is no problem. It is as you have
always done. Please, make sure that you apply 5.1 patches as
well.

Thanks,
Mo,

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:09 AM
Subject: Multinet and VMS upgrades
Gang --
Currently at VMS 7.3-2, Multinet 4.4 with lots of patches.
I'll be upgrading
VMS over the holiday on my DS20E. Using Apache, PMDF, etc.
How big a hassle is the Multinet 4.4 - 5.1 upgrade? Am I looking at big
trouble? What if I _don't_ upgrade? Will the VMS upgrade
break Multinet?
Thanks,
-- Alan
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[Curtis Williams]

Post by Mo Boukantar
What are you upgrading VMS to? If to 8.x then I suggest you go ahead
and upgrade Multinet as well, since upgrading VMS to a major version will
also necessitate that you re-install 4.4.

Just to expand on this a little more... If you are going to v8.x of VMS, then
you MUST upgrade to MultiNet 5.x - earlier versions will not work on v8.x. As
always, make sure you apply all of the current MultiNet patches.

--

Curtis Williams
Process Software

[Bob Koehler]

Post by Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
Gang --
Currently at VMS 7.3-2, Multinet 4.4 with lots of patches. I'll be upgrading
VMS over the holiday on my DS20E. Using Apache, PMDF, etc.
How big a hassle is the Multinet 4.4 - 5.1 upgrade? Am I looking at big
trouble? What if I _don't_ upgrade? Will the VMS upgrade break Multinet?

Generally older versions of Multinet keep on going, but:

You may need to re-install Multinet or a Multinet patch, or install
a new VMS patch.

Do check to see which versions of Multinet are supported under the
new version of VMS. They don't go on forever.

[Paul Sture]

Post by Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing
I'll be upgrading
VMS over the holiday on my DS20E. Using Apache, PMDF, etc.

Not relevant to Multinet, but note the following re: Apache support on
VMS:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws.html

"Important Support Notice OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2 and OpenVMS
Version 8.2 (Alpha and I64) are the last releases on which the Secure
Web Server Version 1.3-* is supported. OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3-2 is
the last release on which SWS Version 2.0 is supported."