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VAXRMS04_061 VAX V6.1 RMS/CONVERT ECO Summary

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    Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996.  All rights reserved.
    
    OP/SYS:     OpenVMS VAX
    
    COMPONENT:  RMS.EXE
                CONVERT.EXE
                CONVSHR.EXE
                RECLAIM.EXE
                RECOVER.EXE
                RMSREC$SERVER.EXE
    
    SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation
    
    ECO INFORMATION:
    
         ECO Kit Name:  VAXRMS04_061
         ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  VAXRMS03_061
                                               VAXRMS02_061
                                               VAXRMS01_061 (CSCPAT_1181)
         ECO Kit Approximate Size:  774 Blocks
         Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS VAX V6.1
         System/Cluster Reboot Necessary:  Yes
    
    NOTE:  It is strongly recommended that this kit be applied immediately
           after any system is upgraded to OpenVMS VAX V6.1 before
           production activity begins on the system.
    
    
    ECO KIT SUMMARY:
    
    An ECO kit exists for RMS/CONVERT on OpenVMS VAX V6.1.  This kit
    addresses the following problems:
    
    Problems addressed in VAXRMS04_061 kit:
    
      o  Fix for compressed primary key problem that occurs in the
         context of record deletes being done using sequential access
         rather than keyed access.
    
         Sequentially walking through (accessing) the primary data records
         in an indexed file (primary key is a string key with key
         compression enabled), a delete is done of one of the records.
         The following error may be returned when an attempt is made to
         sequentially access the next record:
    
            RMS-F-BUG, fatal RMS condition, process deleted.
    
         The file is not left corrupted.  A convert of the file will
         leave the file in a consistent state.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Make last chance handler more robust when a process that has file
         opened with global buffers enabled is terminated with STOP/ID.
         STOP/ID invokes the RMS abort last chance handler (RM$LAST_CHANCE).
         Problems addressed include:
    
          o  A potential deadlock in the RMS last-chance handler if the
             same file is open more than once within a process or
             subprocess and it has global buffers set on it.
    
          o  A potential fatal KRNLSTAKNV system crash due to nonfatal
             RMS bugchecks from failing $GETLKI calls which cause error
             rundown recursion until the stack fills up.
    
         These problems are fixed in the OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
         NOTE:  Until the system can be upgraded to OpenVMS  Alpha  V7.1
         or this remedial kit can be installed, these symptoms may be
         avoided by refraining from the use of the 'STOP/ID'  DCL command.
         Instead, if a process needs to be terminated, (which should be
         a rare event), use a program that does a $FORCEX, waits a few
         seconds, and then does a $DELPRC.
    
      o  Fix for RMS bugcheck NOTLOCKED (R2=FFFFFFEF) on shared sequential file.
    
         Process is delivered blocking AST to release file lock.  Before
         releasing file lock, it has to release the lock it holds on EOF buffer.
         NOTLOCKED bugcheck is returned if process is holding PW  (protected
         write) rather than EX (exclusive) lock on EOF buffer.  The check
         should be for either EX or PW lock.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Fix for loop when deleting network logical links.  Loop  occurs
         at EXEC-MODE AST level and the process cannot be deleted.  Process
         in loop will be an application that does network operations.
    
         RMS maintains a process cache of recent logical links for a
         period of time  in an attempt to reuse them and save on image
         and process activations.  When a link becomes inactive and is
         added to the cache, RMS deletes any links in surplus of three.
         In walking the link cache queue to delete these links, there is
         a potential race condition that could result in a stale pointer
         being used after a stall, which leads to the loop.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Autoextend fix for shared block I/O write which requires use of
         UPI option -- which disables any locking (file or EOF bucket).
    
         For this particular case with no locking synchronization, it is
         possible  if  two or more processes or two or more asynchronous
         streams are writing to a file, that two or more autoextends may
         occur concurrently.  Though the file system will do the extends
         synchronously, the processing of the extend result may complete
         out  of  sequence  and  result  in  RMS bugcheck FTL$_BADEBKHBK
         (R2=FFFFFFDC).
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Fix for possible client/server hang in detached RU recovery
         server.   Given the right series of coincidences, both a client
         RMS process and the detached RU recovery server process can
         hang when the client accesses a file on which there is an open
         RU transaction.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Non-indexed file opened with an indexed file XAB may ACCVIO.
         If a non-indexed file (sequential or relative) is opened with
         one or more XABs specific to indexed files (XABKEY, XABSUM,  or
         XABALL) chained to the FAB, the process may either:
    
          o  Terminate (SYSGEN parameter BUGCHECKFATAL not enabled) with
             an access violation (ACCVIO); or
    
          o  Crash the system (BUGCHECKFATAL enabled) with a  SSRVEXCEPT
             ACCVIO.
    
         A necessary condition for this to occur  is  that  the  virtual
         address  space  used  for  the program region (P0) must be more
         than half a gigabyte.  In other words, it requires both a  very
         large  application and one that has indexed XABs chained to the
         FAB  for  a  non-indexed  file.   We  are  aware  of  only  one
         application  that  this  problem  has  occurred  with  to date:
         ALL-IN-1.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Fix to detect outlier XAB area on indexed file open.  RMS-F-AID
         error  (invalid  area  ID)  was  not reported on the open of an
         indexed file with an XABALL declaration that  has  an  area  ID
         that is exactly one greater than the maximum number of areas in
         that indexed file.  A check  has  been  added  for  record  I/O
         access.  Block I/O access is excluded from this check.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Fix for SDA-W-FAOERR when displaying RMS FWA (File Work  Area).
         The contents of a buffer (LOGNAM) are being displayed after the
         space have been returned and reallocated for some other use.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
      o  Statistics setting on a file is lost from the FDL  produced  by
         ANALYZE/RMS/FDL.  File monitoring is always set to 'no' whether
         it is enabled or not.  The problem is not  with  ANALYZE[/RMS],
         but with RMS's processing of an XABITM list.
    
         This problem is fixed in OpenVMS VAX V7.1.
    
    
    Problems addressed in the VAXRMS03_061 kit:
    
      o  Make last chance handler  more  robust  to  re-entry  to  avoid
         potential  system  crash when process that has file opened with
         global buffers enabled is terminated with STOP/ID.
    
         STOP/ID invokes the RMS last chance  handler  (RM$LAST_CHANCE).
         The last chance handler was written with the assumption that it
         will be called exactly once during  any  process  rundown.   An
         example  of  this  assumption  is  the  dequeuing of the global
         buffer header (GBH) lock, though  the  pointer  to  it  is  not
         cleared.
    
         Evidence from several recent crash dumps suggests that  it  may
         be  possible for a STOP/ID to result in the last chance handler
         being entered more than once.  If this happens and the  process
         being  stopped has global buffers enabled on one or more files,
         a fatal KRNLSTAKNV system crash may result due to nonfatal  RMS
         bugchecks  from failing $GETLKI calls which cause error rundown
         "recursion" until the stack fills up.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V7.0.
    
      o  If one of the files being  closed  by  the  RMS  abort  rundown
         procedure  has  global  buffers  set  on  it  and  there  is an
         end-of-file (EOF)  sublock  associated  with  the  system-owned
         global  buffer  header  (GBH) parent lock, then the EOF sublock
         should be dequeued as part of  rundown.   Without  the  fix  an
         incorrect  branch  instruction  results in a $DEQ being done if
         the  lock-id  is  zero  (SS$_INVLOCKID  returned)  rather  than
         nonzero.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Quota borrowing implemented for RMS internal AST  to  avoid  an
         RMS  bugcheck.   An  RMS  process that's operating at ASTLM may
         bugcheck on an AST generated internally by RMS for rescheduling
         execution.   This  extra  AST  is currently charged against the
         user's ASTLM.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  This fix addresses several synchronization problems with  $WAIT
         on a FAB:
    
         o  Status is currently cleared on the initial entry  to  $WAIT
            checking.
    
         o  $WAIT on a $CLOSE does not wait.
    
         These problems are corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  An update to the end-of-file for  a  sequential  file  with  an
         undefined  (UDF) record format inappropriately rounds the first
         free byte (FFB) up to an even number.  This results in the last
         record,  if  an  odd  size,  containing  one  more byte than it
         should.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Add check of extend values returned in FIB by file system.
    
         A check has been added to the RMS code to test  the  assumption
         that  if  the  file  system  (XQP)  returns  no  error  for  an
         autoextend, the values returned  in  the  FIB  (FIB$L_EXSZ  and
         FIB$L_EXVBN)  result in an increase in the size of the HBK.  If
         FIB$L_EXVBN)  result in an increase in the size of the HBK.  If
         there is an increase (as expected), then the HBK in the IFAB is
         updated.    If   there   is   no   increase,  an  RMS  bugcheck
         (FTL$_BADEBKHBK) is returned and  the  process  is  terminated.
         This  check  was  added  to guard against the possibility of an
         infinite loop that might occur under the remote circumstance of
         the  XQP  failing  to  update  the  FIB values for a successful
         extend operation in the context of a process  in  an  overdrawn
         quota state.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Fix added to change dangling SIDR error status from RMS$_BUG to
         RMS$_RNF.
    
         This fix changes the handling of a dangling SIDR pointing to  a
         nonexistent  record  from  an  RMS$_BUG  status  to a status of
         RMS$_RNF.  Also a cleanup of the SIDR element is  done  if  the
         process doing the $GET (or $FIND) has WRITE access to the file.
    
         If a process has any modified buckets whose writeback  to  disk
         has been deferred (deferred-write option) when a power failure,
         system crash or a STOP/ID occurs, the indexed file may be  left
         with  a  secondary  index  data  record  (SIDR)  pointing  to a
         nonexistent primary data record.  This  can  happen  when  some
         other  process has requested through the lock manager access to
         a modified SIDR data bucket but not the  primary  data  bucket.
         This  request  triggers  a  blocking  AST to writeback the SIDR
         bucket to disk.  If  the  process  with  the  modified  buckets
         closes   the  file  or  exits  normally  thereafter,  then  any
         remaining modified buckets are written back to disk and now the
         SIDR  points to a primary data record that exists in the "disk"
         file.  It is the combination of  both  deferred-write  and  the
         rare  event  of a power failure, system crash or a STOP/ID that
         may leave an indexed file with this inconsistency.  (Note  that
         enabling    RMS    RU    journaling    automatically    enables
         deferred-write.)
    
         If a subsequent $GET or $FIND via a secondary key  attempts  to
         retrieve  a  nonexistent  primary  data  record pointed to by a
         dangling SIDR, then without this fix an RMS$_BUG  status  (with
         an   associated   RAB$L_STV  of  RMS$_RNF)  will  be  returned.
         Although the text  of  the  message  associated  with  RMS$_BUG
         indicates  the  process  has  been terminated, in the case of a
         dangling SIDR, this is not true.  Even though  the  process  is
         not  terminated,  a side-effect of handling this condition as a
         bugcheck is that the internal context for the record  operation
         (IRAB)  is  not  updated.   The  result  of  this is that it is
         impossible for a process to recover from this error.
    
         RMS$_BUG  is  a  status  returned  for  a  broad  spectrum   of
         conditions that RMS views as suggesting some risk in continuin
         any further processing.  In its regular  use  of  RMS$_BUG,  it
         identifies  the specific condition associated with the bugcheck
         in R2 and does in fact terminate the process.  In the case of a
         dangling SIDR pointing to a nonexistent record there is no risk
         in continuing.
    
         The handling of the error status varies  depending  on  whether
         the  dangling  SIDR  is  encountered  as part of an exact match
         keyed access rather  than  either  a  sequential  access  or  a
         NXTEQ/NXT keyed access:
    
         o  Exact match keyed retrieval
    
            Status (RMS$L_STS) of  RMS$_RNF  is  returned.   RNF  is  a
            status  routinely  checked  for by existing applications so
            this change  will  not  require  modification  of  existing
            applications.   In  addition  a  nonzero  status  value  is
            returned in the status value (RAB$L_STV)  to  indicate  the
            special  case  of  a  dangling SIDR pointing to a record-id
            that is inconsistent with the information  in  the  primary
            data bucket header.  Except for this condition, a status of
            RMS$_RNF will continue to  have  a  status  value  of  zero
            associated with it.
    
            This has the advantage of conveying the information to  the
            user that this special case of a dangling SIDR has occurred
            while allowing the application to  continue.   Applications
            can build into the design of any exact keyed retrievals via
            a secondary key, checking the associated status  value  and
            signaling  it  when  it  is  nonzero, if they so choose, or
            simply  displaying  an  informational  text   message   and
            continuing.
    
      o  sequential access or NXTEQ/NXT (KGE/KGT) keyed retrieval
    
         No explicit status will be returned to the user.  When this
         condition  is  detected,  RMS silently advances to the next
         SIDR  element  or  array  attempting  to  find   the   next
         "non-deleted" primary data record via the secondary key.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Fix for relative file fixed record format file.
    
         This problem is restricted to a  relative  file  with  a  fixed
         length record format that has global buffers enabled on it.  An
         improper move instruction (MOVW  that  has  been  corrected  to
         MOVZWL)  was  used to move maximum record size (word in length)
         into a register for relative  file  with  fixed  length  record
         format.   This  register  has  always  been clear so to date it
         causes no problem on a VAX system.  To  ensure  that  it  never
         becomes a future problem, it was corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  A key-greater-than $get or $find to  a  newly  created  indexed
         file  that  has  not  had  a single record added to it (primary
         index is uninitialized) returns a RNF (record not found)  error
         to user.
    
         A key-less-than $get or $find to a newly created  indexed  file
         that  has not had a single record added to it (primary index is
         uninitialized) returns an IDX (index not initialized) error  to
         user.
    
         While strictly speaking the errors could be different  for  the
         two  cases,  this requires different handling by the user.  The
         error reported to the user for a key-less-than $get or $find in
         the case of a newly created file that has never had any records
         added to it (index is uninitialized) has  been  changed  to  be
         consistent with the error reported under the same circumstances
         for a key-greater-than $get or $find.  Specifically, the  error
         that  will  now  be reported for both cases will be RNF (record
         not found).
    
         This change was made in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  RMS-F-AID error (invalid area ID) is not reported on  the  open
         of  an indexed file with an XABALL declaration that has an area
         ID that is exactly one greater than the maximum number of areas
         in that indexed file.
    
         If FDL$GENERATE is used to generate an FDL from this file open,
         a bad area definition in the FDL will be created.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V7.0.
    
      o  An ISAM RMS nonfatal  bugcheck  is  returned  by  RM$EXPAND_KEY
         (module  RM3PCKUNP).   This bugcheck is forced if key expansion
         for the deletion of a secondary index data record (SIDR)  would
         overflow a SIDR data bucket.
    
         The current problem occurs in the context of  an  $UPDATE  that
         changes a secondary key value (with key compression enabled) if
         both the SIDR data bucket freespace is  exactly  equal  to  the
         bucket  size  minus  one and the key expansion of the next SIDR
         record (if any) results in a gain in bytes exactly equal to the
         number  of  bytes  to  be  deleted.   For both conditions to be
         satisfied makes the probability of  this  problem's  occurrence
         extremely rare.
    
         The update to the primary record will have been completed;  the
         problem  occurs  during  the delete operation to remove the old
         secondary key value after the new updated secondary  key  value
         has  been added.  The file is not left corrupted.  A convert of
         the file will rebuild the secondary indexes and leave the  file
         in a consistent state.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V7.0.
    
      o  Fix for a SIDR (secondary index  data  record)  compressed  key
         expansion problem that could result in a corrupted SIDR bucket.
         The conditions that are required make the  probability  of  its
         occurrence extremely rare.
    
         For this problem to occur requires both  (1)  the  presence  of
         many duplicate records for a secondary key, (2) a secondary key
         of string type that is 9 bytes or more in  length,  and  (3)  a
         very  particular key pattern which results in a number of bytes
         at the front of the key being compressed.  The  problem  occurs
         in  the context of a bucket split when the current design moves
         an entire SIDR array into a new bucket.  It  is  possible  that
         when  the  compressed  secondary  key  for  that  SIDR array is
         expanded in its position as the first record in the new bucket,
         it may grow larger than the bucket.
    
         ANALYZE/RMS_FILE will most likely report the  following  error:
         "Invalid  first  free  byte offset in bucket header." Since the
         problem is with a secondary key bucket, a convert will  recover
         all the data records in the corrupted file.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V7.0.
    
      o  Fix to $TRUNCATE for zero-byte  record  problem  for  STREAM_LF
         sequential file.
    
         The RMS service $TRUNCATE does not properly handle a  zero-byte
         record  in a STREAM_LF file.  Truncating a STREAM_LF file after
         reading a zero-byte record will  fail  with  an  RMS-F-CUR  (no
         current  record)  error.   This  problem  is  restricted  to  a
         sequential file with a STREAM_LF record format.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Running APL (which creates a system logical name that points to
         the  terminal)  and then stopping (STOP/ID) the process results
         in the terminal  being  unavailable.   Subsequent  attempts  to
         login  to  this  terminal fail.  This is due to the channel not
         being properly deassigned.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
    
    Problems addressed in the VAXRMS02_061 kit:
    
      o  Under DECnet/OSI, an RMS process issuing $WRITEs to a remote node
         which encounters a non-continuable error  (such as, device-full)
         may hang along with the remote FAL.   An example is using BACKUP
         on a Phase V node to write a saveset to another node (which may be
         Phase IV or Phase V) when the remote device becomes full.
    
         NOTE:  This problem only occurs when the $WRITEs are issued on a
                Phase V node.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Fix added to transparently recover a global buffer descriptor
         (GBD) if it becomes lost to the GBD queue associated with an RMS
         global buffer section.  A prerequisite of a GBD becoming lost
         is not only that a STOP/ID is done of a process that is "actively"
         doing something to a file that has global buffers set on it but
         also that the kernel-mode STOP/ID interrupts a very specific
         activity (between the removal and reinsert of a GBD into a queue),
         which occurs within a very small window.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  If the data bucket pointed to by the level 1 "high key" index value
         for a duplicate key (primary or secondary) has one or more
         continuation buckets chained to it and the last bucket is full,
         under rare conditions a race condition may occur when two processes
         are concurrently adding (putting) records to a duplicate key, each
         with a key value higher than the highest key value currently stored
         in the file.
    
         Symptoms of this problem are:
    
           +  If the index is compressed, an infinite loop will occur due to
              an attempt to add a duplicate entry to the level 1 index
              bucket.
    
           +  If the index is not compressed, a duplicate entry will
              successfully be added to the level 1 index bucket.
    
              NOTE:  An index bucket should never have a duplicate entry for
                     any index value.
    
         This can result in:
    
           +  Records in the level 0 data chain being out of sorted order.
    
           +  Records being hidden from a keyed lookup though visible
              with a sequential scan.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2.
    
      o  Heavy concurrent INSTALL and F$FILE_ATTRIBUTE usage may cause
         locking conflicts accessing the KFE (Known File Entry) list
         which can result in a bad KFE pointer being handed to RMS leading
         to an Access Violation (ACCVIO).
    
         This problem will be corrected in a future release of OpenVMS VAX.
    
      o  Incomplete security success audit information may be generated upon
         image activation of installed /OPEN images.
    
         This problem will be corrected in a future release of OpenVMS VAX.
    
      o  When converting a VFC-format file to a fixed-format file using the
         /PAD qualifier, the following error may occur:
    
            %LIB-F-BADBLOADR, bad block address
    
         The problem is restricted to a convert job that involves an input
         file with a VFC record format that is being converted to an output
    
      o  When trying to convert an input file with an "undefined" record
         format, the following error may occur:
    
            %LIB-F-BADBLOADR, bad block address or %FDL-E-INVBLK, invalid
               RMS control block at virtual address nnnnnn
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  If callable convert (CONV$CONVERT preceded by CONV$PASS_FILES and
    
    
         file with a fixed record format using the /PAD qualifier.
    
         This problem will be corrected in a future release of OpenVMS VAX.
    
      o  When trying to convert an input file with an "undefined" record
         format, the following error may occur:
    
            %LIB-F-BADBLOADR, bad block address or %FDL-E-INVBLK, invalid
               RMS control block at virtual address nnnnnn
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  If callable convert (CONV$CONVERT preceded by CONV$PASS_FILES and
         CONV$PASS_OPTIONS) is called multiple times with the FDL option
         enabled in an earlier call and disabled in a later call, the call
         may fail with the following error:
    
            %CONV-F-OPENOUT, error opening <file-name> as output
            -RMS-F-MBC, invalid multi-block count
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
    
    Problems addressed in the VAXRMS01_061 kit:
    
      o  Sometime after upgrading to OpenVMS V6.1, a user tries to
         access their mail file (named MAIL.MAI by default) and finds
         that it is corrupted.  Any of the following errors may be
         returned when the corruption is encountered:
    
           - RMS-F-IRC, illegal record encountered; VBN or record number = nn
           - MAIL-W-WRITERR, error writing 'file-spec'
           - MAIL-F-CODERR, internal coding error. Please submit an SPR.
    
         An ANALYZE/RMS of the mail file returns the following errors:
    
           ***  VBN nn:  Data record spills over into free space of bucket.
           Unrecoverable error encountered in structure of file.
    
         Prior to noticing the corruption a CONVERT/RECLAIM has been
         performed on the mail file via one of the following methods:
    
           +  If AUTO_PURGE is enabled or a PURGE command issued and more
              than 32767 bytes of deleted messages have accumulated, Mail
              will automatically perform a CONVERT/RECLAIM on the user's
              behalf.
    
           +  The user issues a PURGE/RECLAIM in Mail.
    
           +  A CONVERT/RECLAIM MAIL.MAI command is issued at DCL.
    
         Any new mail messages received after the corruption occurs may
         be orphaned.  This occurs because the external mail file
         (MAIL$xxx.MAI) is created before the entry into the mail file
         (MAIL.MAI) fails.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  The CONVERT/RECLAIM Utility 1 may cause a secondary index data
         (SIDR) bucket to be left in a state which may subsequently
         cause the file to become corrupted.  This occurs only under
         certain circumstances.
    
         An attempt to read or add another record to an indexed
         sequential (ISAM) file returns the following error:
    
           RMS-F-IRC, illegal record encountered; VBN or record number = nn
    
         An ANALYZE/RMS of the above file or another ISAM file reports
         the following errors:
    
          ***  VBN nn:  Data record spills over into free space of bucket.
          Unrecoverable error encountered in structure of file.
    
         The file has multiple keys with at least one of the secondary
         keys allowing duplicates.  Prior to these errors, a
         CONVERT/RECLAIM has been performed on the file.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
      o  When converting a record from any record format without FORTRAN
         carriage control (in any type of file organization) to a
         fixed-length record format with FORTRAN carriage control, the
         last character from the input record may be overwritten by the
         pad character if the record is short and requires padding.
    
         This problem is corrected in OpenVMS VAX V6.2
    
    
    RELATED ARTICLES:
    
    Detailed articles describing the problems listed above may exist in
    the OPENVMS databases.  To view these articles, open the appropriate
    product database and perform a query using either of the following
    search strings: 'VAXRMS04_061' or 'VAXRMS'.
    
    
    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 Kits Using Service Tools
    
    
    INSTALLATION NOTES:
    
    In order for the corrections in this kit to take effect, the system
    must be rebooted.  If the system is a member of a VAXcluster,
    the entire cluster should be rebooted.
    
    It is strongly recommended that this kit be applied immediately
    after any system is upgraded to OpenVMS V6.1 before production
    activity begins on the system.  Once the kit is applied, no data
    files thereafter using Convert/Reclaim will be left with unreclaimed
    buckets with a freespace of hex '0E'; therefore, the Convert/Reclaim
    problem listed above will not occur.
    
    If this kit is applied after there has been some production activity on
    a V6.1 system, the remedial images in this ECO will not correct any
    files that already contain any buckets with a freespace of hex '0E'.  A
    full convert (CONVERT infile outfile) is needed to take care of this.
    In other words, once this kit is applied, a file can experience the same
    corruption thereafter if Convert/Reclaim was used on it prior to
    applying this kit and it was not converted after the kit was applied.
    Users should not rely on an ANALYZE/RMS revealing an error since the
    right conditions leading to the corruption may not have occurred yet.
    
    For those who are already using OpenVMS V6.1, once the remedial kit
    has been applied, they should recommend to all their users that
    performing a full convert at a convenient time is advisable on any
    MAIL.MAI files or any other data files with which Convert/Reclaim
    may have been directly used since upgrading to OpenVMS V6.1.  A
    precautionary convert will preclude the possibility of an untimely
    occurrence at some future time.
    
    NOTE:  If the previous version of this ECO, VAXRMS01_061 (CSCPAT_1181),
           was applied and if necessary, the recommendation listed about
           was followed, it should not be necessary to follow this
           recommendation again after this ECO is installed.  The issue
           with CONVERT/RECLAIM was initially addressed with
           the VAXRMS01_061 ECO.
      
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      |                     Table of Kit Image Information                     |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      |                            | Overall  | Image File      | Image Link   |
      | Image Name                 | Checksum | Identification  | Date/Time    |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | CONVERT.EXE                |%XF570BDAA| X-3             | 29-AUG-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 16:57:33.20  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | CONVSHR.EXE                |%XECA230D3| X-1             | 29-AUG-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 16:55:22.81  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | RECLAIM.EXE                |%XD82CED0E| X-3             | 29-AUG-1995  |
      |                                       |                 | 16:57:40.08  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | RECOVER.EXE                |%X9A02F0C0| X-3             | 13-JAN-1997  |
      |                                       |                 | 07:39:32.81  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | RMS.EXE                    |%XABECEA53| RMS             | 19-DEC-1996  |
      |                                       |                 | 15:48:04.10  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
      | RMSREC$SERVER.EXE          |%X45054338| X-3             | 13-JAN-1997  |
      |                                       |                 | 07:39:36.41  |
      +----------------------------+----------+-----------------+--------------+
    
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