Got Update. But what is it?

[Steve Roseman]

In article <393 at nwnexus.WA.COM>, golder at nwnexus.WA.COM (Warren Jones) writes:
> In article <10313.2708575f at vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> lusgr at vax1.cc.lehigh.edu
> (Steve Roseman) writes:
> 
>>  I just got an AIX 3.1 update tape from IBM.  I guess it is the
>>  famous 'July' or 3001 update, but it doesn't say.  All it has in
>>  the form of an 'update level' is the designation U401153, both
>>  on the tape and printed release notes.
> 
> That's funny.  The tape we just received from IBM is designated U401154.
> Are we missing something?  Is there more than one update tape floating
> around out there?  Perhaps the different numbers simply reflect different
> media (we have 8mm).  For the record, our tape supposedly fixes problems
> ranging from
> 
>    IX09744 Control-Y doesn't work for VI on a IBM3164.
>    IX09758 Semaphore fatal errors on multiple reads ...
> 
>    to ...
> 
>    IX11118 Highlighting would remain on after being set.
>    IX11457 Screen attributes where incorrectly passed.
> 
> What's on your tape?  (We have direct experience with some of the
> bugs, so I'm glad to get the fixes.)

The release notes show the same range, but they are not in numerical order.
The range of APARS is IX09744 to IX12366 (taken from a sorted output of
"instupdt -qA -d'/dev/rmt0.1' all").

> 
> I'm troubled by the fact that we wouldn't have known of the existence
> of this update except for gossip in this newsgroup.  Then our IBM SE
> (actually a very helpful and knowledgeable guy) assured us that we
> would receive it automatically -- not true.  Comments?
> 

I have heard the opposite - you (and so must he) order it.  We got ours because
of 2 problems I reported.

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