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System Management Release Notes
5.3 External Authentication
5.3.11 No Password Expiration Notification on Workstations
V7.1
In the LAN Manager domain, a user cannot log in once a password expires.
Users on personal computers (PCs) receive notification of impending external
user password expiration and can change passwords before they expire. However,
when a user logs in from an OpenVMS workstation using external authentication,
the login process cannot determine if the external password is about to expire.
Therefore, sites that enforce password expiration, and whose user population
does not primarily use PCs, may elect not to use external authentication for
workstation users.
5.4 FDL Utility—Fixing EDIT/FDL Recommended Bucket Size When
Disk Cluster Size Is Large
V7.3
Prior to OpenVMS V7.3, when running EDIT/FDL, the calculated bucket sizes
were always rounded up to the closest disk-cluster boundary, with a maximum
bucket size of 63. This could cause problems when the disk-cluster size was large,
but the "natural" bucket size for the file was small, because the bucket size was
rounded up to a much larger value than required. Larger bucket sizes increase
record and bucket lock contention, and can seriously impact performance.
OpenVMS V7.3 modifies the algorithms for calculating the recommended bucket
size to suggest a more reasonable size when the disk cluster is large.
5.5 OpenVMS Galaxy Version 7.3
This section contains OpenVMS Galaxy release notes for OpenVMS Version 7.3
and notes from OpenVMS Versions 7.2-1H1, 7.2-1, and 7.2 that apply to this
release.
5.5.1 Using Fibre Channel in OpenVMS Galaxy Configurations
V7.2-1H1
Fibre Channel support for OpenVMS Galaxy configurations is included in
OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 and OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2-1H1. For
OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2-1, Fibre Channel support for OpenVMS Galaxy
configurations is available in Fibre Channel remedial kits, starting with V721_
FIBRECHAN-V0200. For the most current information about OpenVMS Fibre
Channel configurations, go to:
http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/fibre/index.html
5.5.2 CPU Migration Restriction
V7.2-1H1
The release of the Compaq Analyze service tool that supports the new Compaq
AlphaServer GS Series systems includes a Director process that sets hard affinity
to a CPU. A CPU with processes hard affinitized to it cannot be reassigned from
one Galaxy instance to another.
This is a temporary restriction.
For more information about Compaq Analyze and its operation, contact your
Compaq support representative.
System Management Release Notes 5–7