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DATE75 Revisited?
DATE75 Revisisted?!
From pat+@transarc.com Mon Dec 7 00:40:08 1992
Subject: RSX queue manager misbehaves in 1993
From: brown@janus.arc.ab.ca
Date: 5 Dec 92 14:23:53 GMT
Organization: Alberta Research Council
The queue manager in RSX-11M and RSX-11M-Plus will not schedule jobs properly
after the end of 1992.
- If you submit a job now to run in 1993, it will run immediately.
- If, in 1993 (or later), you submit a job to run at a specific time, you
will observe this behaviour:
- the year of the displayed scheduled date will be 16 less than the
requested date, but the job will run on the requested date.
- If the specified time is in any of the ranges 00:00-03:59,
08:00-11:59 or 16:00-19:59, the displayed scheduled time will be four
hours later than the specified time.
- Almost all jobs will run four hours earlier than the displayed
scheduled time.
You are affected if:
- A SHOW QUEUE command typically shows that you have jobs which are
"Blocked until ...".
- You have batch jobs which run daily and automatically resubmit
themselves.
- You ever use the /AFTER qualifier in a SUBMIT command.
There is a patch available from Digital to correct this problem. The Digital
part number is:
QR505-HM on 9 track magtape
QR505-H5 on TK50
(It is also available on RX50, but I didn't record that part number.)
RSX-11M-Plus V4.4 will include this correction. V4.4 is currently in final
field test and, according to Digital, either may or may not be shipped before
1993.
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