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Programming Release Notes
6.26 SORT32 (SORT/MERGE/CONVERT)
6.26.4 SORT32 and /STATISTICS Working-Set Display
V7.3
SORT32 overflows the working-set display in the /STATISTICS output for any
working set that is 1,000,000 pages or larger. This is also a known problem
with Hypersort.
6.27 System Services
The following sections contain release notes pertaining to system services.
All system services are documented in the OpenVMS System Services Reference
Manual.
6.27.1 Performance API - $GETRMI
V7.3
The $GETRMI system service does not require the CMKRNL privilege as is
currently documented.
6.27.2 $PERSONA System Services: Flags Ignored (Alpha Only)
V7.2
The $PERSONA_ASSUME and $PERSONA_CREATE system services were
provided in previous versions of OpenVMS. These services contained a flags
argument that specified which persona services options were employed when the
persona was assumed or created.
In OpenVMS Version 7.2, these flags are ignored.
The flags are ignored in this version of OpenVMS because with per-thread
security, the process of impersonation has changed from modifying processwide
security structures to modifying individual security profiles within a process. As
a result, all the security information within a profile can be modified without
affecting jobwide security structures. This eliminates the need for the persona
flags to specify selective modification of security structures.
Table 6–2 and Table 6–3 show the values for the flags argument that are ignored
in OpenVMS Version 7.2.
Table 6–2 Ignored $PERSONA_ASSUME Flags
Flags Description
IMP$M_ASSUME_SECURITY Assume access rights, UIC, authorized privileges, user
name, and security audit flag.
IMP$M_ASSUME_ACCOUNT Assume OpenVMS account.
IMP$M_ASSUME_JOB_WIDE Assume the new persona, even in a multiprocess job.
Table 6–3 Ignored $PERSONA_CREATE Flags
Flags Description
IMP$M_ASSUME_DEFCLASS Create a persona with default classification.
For more information about the $PERSONA system services, refer to the
OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual: GETUTC–Z.
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