Technical data

5.16.2 VCC_MAXSIZE System Parameter Definition Corrected ........... 5–30
5.16.3 NISCS_MAX_PKTSZ System Parameter Definition Corrected ....... 5–31
5.16.4 Parameter Description Changes ............................. 5–31
5.16.5 Obsolete System Parameters ................................ 5–32
5.17 Terminal Fallback Facility (TFF) (Alpha Only) ..................... 5–32
5.18 Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS................................ 5–34
5.18.1 Minicopy Version Required on All Nodes ....................... 5–34
5.18.2 Multipath HSG/HSZ Disk Partitions and Volume Shadowing
Restriction .............................................. 5–34
5.18.3 Dismount of Client Using /MINICOPY; First Dismount Might Fail . . . 5–34
5.18.4 SHADOW_MAX_UNIT Settings.............................. 5–35
5.18.5 SHADOW_MAX_COPY VAX Setting for Using Minicopy in
Mixed-Architecture Cluster . ................................ 5–35
5.18.6 HSD10 Virtual Disks ..................................... 5–35
6 Programming Release Notes
6.1 Backup API ................................................ 6–1
6.1.1 Unexpected Informational Message ........................... 6–1
6.1.2 Journaling Callback Events Restriction . ....................... 6–1
6.1.3 Repetitive Calls to BACKUP$START Can Cause an Error . . ....... 6–2
6.2 Batch and Print Queues—Terminating Executing Batch Jobs . . . ....... 6–2
6.3 COM for OpenVMS (Alpha Only) ................................ 6–3
6.4 Compaq Ada Run-Time Library ................................ 6–3
6.4.1 OpenVMS Text Libraries Containing Ada Declarations ............ 6–3
6.4.2 Unexpected Storage Errors (Alpha Only) ....................... 6–3
6.4.3 AST Procedures No Longer Receive Access Violations ............. 6–3
6.5 Compaq C Run-Time Library . . ................................ 6–3
6.5.1 The strptime Function Is Now XPG5 Compliant . . ............... 6–4
6.5.2 The times and clock Functions Are Now AST Reentrant ........... 6–4
6.5.3 Limitation of Eight Nested Directory Levels Is Lifted (Alpha Only). . 6–4
6.5.4 Long OpenVMS Style File Names Accepted as Arguments (Alpha
Only) . . ................................................ 6–4
6.5.5 Case Preservation Supported in File Names (Alpha Only) . . . ....... 6–5
6.5.6 Exact Case argv Arguments Supported (Alpha Only) ............. 6–5
6.5.7 Opening Files for Shared Access ............................. 6–5
6.5.8 Alternate Way to Translate UNIX File Specifications ............. 6–5
6.5.9 Internationalization Support ................................ 6–5
6.5.10 New Functions . . . ........................................ 6–5
6.5.11 New LINK Command for Linking /NOSYSSHR (VAX Only) . ....... 6–6
6.5.12 The select Socket Function Returns Failure for Invalid File
Descriptor .............................................. 6–6
6.6 Compaq COBOL Run-Time Library (Alpha Only) ................... 6–6
6.6.1 New Routines to Support Y2K Intrinsic Functions ............... 6–6
6.6.2 Performance Improvements . ................................ 6–6
6.6.3 RTL Compatibility with Programs Linked Against Older Version .... 6–7
6.6.4 UNSTRING with /NATIONALITY=JAPAN ..................... 6–7
6.6.5 ON SIZE ERROR Support . . ................................ 6–7
6.6.6 READ PRIOR Support ..................................... 6–7
6.7 Compaq COBOL Run-Time Library (VAX Only)—New Routines to
Support Y2K Intrinsic Functions ................................ 6–7
6.8 Compaq Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for OpenVMS ..... 6–8
6.8.1 DCE System Management Command Procedure . . ............... 6–8
6.8.2 NTLM Authenticated RPC Functionality Now Available ........... 6–8
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