Conference iosg::all-in-1

2580.0. "Node validation for MUA PTN fails on v3.2" by KERNEL::BURDENI () Thu Mar 20 1997 15:15

    I recently had a problem with a customer on v3.2 of ALL-IN-1 on a
    system with Phase V of DECnet.  He was trying to perform a user move
    using the MUA PTN option.
    
    Even though he was able to SET HOST and DIRE the target machine, the
    Validate procedure was still coming back with :
    
    	This system is Unknown.
    
    The procedure oa$lib:sm_pat_validate_node.com; does the following
    
    It creates two files ncl_search.txt and ncl_error.txt
    ncl_search is created from an ncl sho node 'node' routing command
    
    If there are errors in this a file ncl_error.txt is created, if
    there are no errors then no file.
    
    When this ncl_error.txt file is later searched, if one does not exist
    then a previous "on error then goto no_node" comes into play.
    Within the no_node routine the #valid symbol is set to 0, and the error
    This system is unknown  is diplsyaed.
    
    It would seem that the node can never exist.
    
    I put the line 
    If f$search( "ncl_error.txt" ) .eQs. "" then create ncl_error.txt
    Just before a search of this file is performed, and all works OK,
    
    (This had to be done on the target node also).
    Is this something which is known about ??
    Ivan.

    
    Ivan,
    
    Yes, it is known about. For now, the best workaround is to set the
    no validation on the field, so anything is accepted. This was a change
    we made very late on in V3.2 when we realised that the old validation
    of the field used NCP only, which is useless on PhaseV machines.
    
    -Kevin.