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Conference smurf::ultrix_mls_plus

Title:CMW Ultrix MLS+ notesfile
Moderator:SMURF::BAT
Created:Tue Dec 04 1990
Last Modified:Thu May 29 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:780
Total number of notes:3034

777.0. "TDS: year 2000" by SMURF::BAT (Segui la tua beatitudine) Tue Mar 04 1997 20:46

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 10:35:53 -0500
From: tammy@tsc.cxo.dec.D5NET.dec.com (Tammy Sandefur)
To: thomson@kamlia.enet.dec.com
Subject: year 2000

Hi Bat,


  I'm reading note 406.3.  How is this going to effect mls?  Are the patches
underway?  Trident is inquiring.

          
Tammy Sandefur
Digital Equipment
Ultrix & Osf Network Support
tammy@tsc.csc.cxo.dec.com
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777.1osf yes, ultrix someSMURF::BATSegui la tua beatitudineTue Mar 04 1997 20:4650
To: tammy@tsc.enet.dec.com
Cc: thomson@kamlia.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: year 2000 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 97 10:35:53 EST."
             <9703041535.AA18977@kamlia.zk3.dec.com> 
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 97 11:05:44 -0500
From: "Barbara A. Thomson (ZKO3-2/X46 1-2955)" <thomson>
X-Mts: smtp


	The year 2000 project for OSF is ongoing now.  I don't
	think they are supposed to be done until April.  When
	they have the patches for OSF done, I or someone will be 
	backporting them to MLS+ V4.0A for sure and probably 3.1A 
	(although the latter depends on whether Dover is going to 
	pay to extend support to V3.1A -- normally V3.1A would 
	retire 6 months after V4.0A comes out, and the customer is 
	expected to upgrade, but I think Dover wants to extend
	the life of V3.1A just as TRW did for V2.0A)

	The year 2000 project for ULTRIX is being bid by an
	outside contractor.  I don't know what the state of it
	is at the moment; the last I checked in on it, they were 
	reviewing the quote.

	The year 2000 project for ULTRIX will only include the
	date fix (which is already available for OSF) and any
	any bare minimum kernel and library fixes.  It won't include 
	working with 3rd parties to deal with every single layered 
	product proble that might arise.  TRW was the last customer
	I spoke to about this.  They were thinking of changing the date 
	to Dec 31, 1999 11:59 PM to see what would happen to their layered
	products on ULTRIX V2.0A. I haven't spoken to them to see what 
	ensued, if they ever got around to doing it.   

	I'm not planning on working on this until the ULTRIX fixes come out; 
	then I'll for sure be backporting what they have.  How much more
	we do (testing layered products, whatever), is yet TBD.

	P.S. re: "callback" error fixes -- I'm still working on it.
	I have some more things to rebuild and retest, including an
	automatic patch installer (it's such a huge job, it has to
	be automated).  It'll take at least another day or so, but
	I'm ignoring everything else until it's done...

	BAT

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777.2from tammySMURF::BATSegui la tua beatitudineTue Mar 04 1997 20:4755
From: tammy%csc.cxo.dec.com@tsc.cxo.dec.D5NET.dec.com (Tammy Sandefur)
To: Barbara Thomson UEG Engineering 04-Mar-1997 1105 <thomson@kamlia.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Re: year 2000
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Jr says he got a message from layers deep in dec that the ultrix mls
boxes are not going to be supporting the year 2000.  He says he will
forward the message to me tonight from home.  So the customer plan's
on replacing all ultrix mls boxes with alpha's.




Barbara Thomson UEG Engineering 04-Mar-1997 1105 wrote:
> 
>         The year 2000 project for OSF is ongoing now.  I don't
>         think they are supposed to be done until April.  When
>         they have the patches for OSF done, I or someone will be
>         backporting them to MLS+ V4.0A for sure and probably 3.1A
>         (although the latter depends on whether Dover is going to
>         pay to extend support to V3.1A -- normally V3.1A would
>         retire 6 months after V4.0A comes out, and the customer is
>         expected to upgrade, but I think Dover wants to extend
>         the life of V3.1A just as TRW did for V2.0A)
> 
>         The year 2000 project for ULTRIX is being bid by an
>         outside contractor.  I don't know what the state of it
>         is at the moment; the last I checked in on it, they were
>         reviewing the quote.
> 
>         The year 2000 project for ULTRIX will only include the
>         date fix (which is already available for OSF) and any
>         any bare minimum kernel and library fixes.  It won't include
>         working with 3rd parties to deal with every single layered
>         product proble that might arise.  TRW was the last customer
>         I spoke to about this.  They were thinking of changing the date
>         to Dec 31, 1999 11:59 PM to see what would happen to their layered
>         products on ULTRIX V2.0A. I haven't spoken to them to see what
>         ensued, if they ever got around to doing it.
> 
>         I'm not planning on working on this until the ULTRIX fixes come out;
>         then I'll for sure be backporting what they have.  How much more
>         we do (testing layered products, whatever), is yet TBD.
> 
>         P.S. re: "callback" error fixes -- I'm still working on it.
>         I have some more things to rebuild and retest, including an
>         automatic patch installer (it's such a huge job, it has to
>         be automated).  It'll take at least another day or so, but
>         I'm ignoring everything else until it's done...
> 
>         BAT

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777.3the party lineSMURF::BATSegui la tua beatitudineTue Mar 04 1997 20:4730
To: tammy@tsc.enet.dec.com
Cc: thomson@kamlia.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: year 2000 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Mar 97 11:45:07 EST."
             <9703041645.AA23977@kamlia.zk3.dec.com> 
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 97 12:35:46 -0500
From: "Barbara A. Thomson (ZKO3-2/X46 1-2955)" <thomson>
X-Mts: smtp

> Jr says he got a message from layers deep in dec that the ultrix mls
> boxes are not going to be supporting the year 2000.  He says he will
> forward the message to me tonight from home.  So the customer plan's
> on replacing all ultrix mls boxes with alpha's.

	Well, I certainly wouldn't want to stop them from doing that!

	FYI, see the discussion at note 760.4 in smurf::ultrix_mls_plus

	There was a retirement announcement for ULTRIX, but there is
	still, as far as I know, an ULTRIX Year 2000 project on-going.
	It just is not as extensive as the DU project. Only the
	basic broken things will be fixed (e.g., date and library stuff).
	I'll reconfirm that there is indeed still an ULTRIX 2000 project,
	but not today or rather not until I've gotten that callback
	"patch" done.


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