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TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1876
Written by: BOSACK 8-Mar-78 17:56:18
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: POSTLD
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
THE BUGCHK/HLT/INF OUTPUT FROM POSTLD DOESN'T SAY WHAT TYPE OF BUGXXX
AN ENTRY IS.
Diagnosis:
NEW FEATURE.
Solution:
OUTPUT [CHK/HLT/INF] AS APPROPRIATE IN THE BUGSTRINGS.TXT LISTING.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1877
Written by: BOSACK 8-Mar-78 17:58:36
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: FOO
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
Diagnosis:
Solution:
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1878
Written by: BOSACK 20-Apr-78 13:43:41
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: PHYSO
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
DUAL PORT CONTENTION COULD CAUSE XBWERR WHEN THERE WAS NO REAL ERROR.
Diagnosis:
UDSKIO ALWAYS TESTED FOR OFFLINE DRIVES.
Solution:
TEST DOP%EO
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1882
Written by: PORCHER 5-May-78 13:47:43
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: DTESRV
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: I/O page fail after Front-End reload failure.
Diagnosis: DTE still has "To -10 Byte Count Loaded" flag up. -11 can
start a To -10 transfer, after page has been removed.
Solution: Clear PI 0 enable (to prevent transfers) on any errors in
reload code (at ROMGNK).
At RMTRY1, add
HRRZ A,RMDTE
CALL DTREST
.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1883
Written by: OSMAN 12-May-78 12:45:57
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: PLEASE DOCUMENT .MSHFL
Diagnosis:
Solution:
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1884
Written by: MCLEAN 14-May-78 14:17:51
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: GTJFN
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's: 11294
Problem: JSB FULL AND RECOGNITION WRONG IF USERS SPECIFIES TOO SMALL A BYTE COUNT
Diagnosis: WRONG ERROR CODE GIVEN AND PRINTED WRONG
Solution: ADD NEW ERROR CODE GJFX51. (BYTE SIZE TOO SMALL)
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1885
Written by: OSMAN 15-May-78 09:33:59
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: NONE
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: .MSHFL IDEA CANCELED
Diagnosis:
Solution:
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1886
Written by: MILLER 15-May-78 18:20:39
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: STG
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: Need to be able to define
the default swapping to put on a new structure independent
of the DST for the monitor.
Diagnosis: As above. By having this, structure swapping space
can be large enough to meet future needs
Solution: Add new parameter, SWDST. This is the number of swapping
pages to allocate on the structure. Is defined in STG as:
NDG SWDST,NDST
and can be overriden in PARAMS
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1887
Written by: MILLER 16-May-78 13:05:13
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: MEXEC
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: CHECKD needs to know the default
swapping space for the monitor
Diagnosis: As above
Solution: Add enw GETTAB table, NSWPGS
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1888
Written by: OSMAN 17-May-78 11:32:00
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: MSTR DSKALC
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: NEED CONVENIENT WAY TO MODIFY
HOMEBLOCKS
Diagnosis:
Solution: ADD .MSHOM FUNCTION OF MSTR
THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS ENABLED WHEEL OR OPR PROGRAM TO SPECIFY WORD
OF HOMEBLOCK OF MOUNTED STRUCTURE TO BE MODIFIED, WHICH BITS SHOULD
BE MODIFIED, AND WHAT THE NEW VALUES SHOULD BE.
1/ LENGTH,,.MSHOM
2/ ARGBLK
ARGBLK:
ARGBLK+.MSHNM/ HANDLE ON ALIAS (SUCH AS POINTER TO STRING, OR
DEVICE DESIGNATOR)
ARGBLK+.MSHOF/ OFFSET SPECIFYING WHICH WORD SHOULD BE CHANGED
ARGBLK+.MSHVL/ VALUE FOR NEW BITS
ARGBLK+.MSHMK/ MASK SHOWING WHICH BITS SHOULD BE CHANGED
POSSIBLE ERRORS:
MSTRX2 INSUFFICIENT PRIVS
MSTRX3 ARG BLOCK TOO SMALL
MSTX21 STRUCTURE NOT MOUNTED
BLECCCH ANY ERRORS "MODHOM" ROUTINE RETURNS
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1889
Written by: MILLER 18-May-78 12:45:02
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: APRSRV JSYSA
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: Need way to report all machine
status via SYSERR. Also need new monitor funcitons to enable
and disable reporting
Diagnosis: Request by F/S. Add code to APRSRV to gather machine
status block on any error. Also add new SMON and TMON functions to
enable and disable reporting
Solution: AS above
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1890
Written by: PORCHER 24-May-78 12:29:29
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: DISC
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: DUMPER does not incremental save files which
have been renamed but not modified.
Diagnosis: Rename (RNAMF) copies the BACKUP words .FBBK0 to .FBBK4 from
the source FDB to the new FDB. These words should not be copied, but
should be zero in every new file.
Solution: Change the rename FDB mask to not copy .FBBK0 to .FBBK4.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1892
Written by: DBELL 5-Jun-78 14:00:32
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: MONITOR
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
MONPDL BUGHLTS
Diagnosis: SCHEDULAR STACK TOO SHORT IN CASE WHERE BIG BUFFER CODE
TRIES TO OUTPUT A CHARACTER TO A TERMINAL WHICH IS TLINKED TO A PTY.
CONTROLLING JOBS IS THEN WAKED AND IS MADE RUNNABLE, WHICH USES UP
THE REST OF THE STACK.
Solution:
INCREASE NSKDP FROM 67 TO 100. THIS MUCH INCREASE IS NOT NECESSARY FOR
THIS PROBLEM, BUT A LITTLE EXTRA CAN'T HURT.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1893
Written by: MILLER 8-Jun-78 16:06:24
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: JSYSA
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: TGHA needs to read the status
of many pages at once using PMCTL.
Diagnosis: As above
Solution: Add a repeat count to the word containing the
physical number. New format of arg is:
-n,,PAGENO
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1894
Written by: MURPHY 8-Jun-78 17:11:32
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: TTYSRV STG
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
Slow terminal output, especially on 2020. Unable to run
single line at more than about 4000 baud on 2020.
Diagnosis:
Excessive interrupts; first character is completed
before next one put into buffer, so buffers are
deassigned, etc.
Solution:
Don't start output immediately; queue to be started
at 20 ms scheduler cycle.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1895
Written by: PORCHER 13-Jun-78 13:21:02
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: JSYSF
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: DUMPER loops if it is creating
directories on tape and a non-wild directory is specified.
Diagnosis: RCDIR with RC%STP (step directory) and a non-wild directory
string returns success with the same directory number.
RCDIR should return RC%NMD (no more directories) in this case.
Parallel problem exists with RCUSR monitor call.
Solution: Call wild-card step code if either RC%STP was set in the call
or the string has wild cards in it. Used to be only if string had wild cards.
At GETD10+13 and RCU070+7, add TXNN Q2,RC%STP before TXNE Q1,RC%WLD.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1896
Written by: PORCHER 16-Jun-78 09:15:18
Edit checked: NO Document: YES
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: JSYSA
Related TCO's: 3A.1897 3A.1898
Related SPR's:
Problem: Installations cannot create their
own USAGE entry types.
Diagnosis: Code does not support installation defined (5000-9999)
entry types.
Solution: Add code to create arbitrary records in the SYSTEM-DATA.BIN file
for entry types 5000-9999.
See USRUSG.MEM for more details.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1902
Written by: PORCHER 5-Jul-78 10:58:31
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: MEXEC
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: Job 0 takes too long to checkpoint all jobs.
Diagnosis: Job 0 unmaps the checkpoint file after each job is checkpointed.
Solution: Job 0 should only update full pages in the checkpoint file.
Remove most calls to "UNMAPC" routine.
Make "USGMAP" routine remember last page mapped and not to remap same page,
also unmap and update different page.
"UNMAPC" will always unmap last page mapped.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1903
Written by: BOSACK 14-Jul-78 13:42:12
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: PHYM2
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem:
VARYING RECORD LENGTHS FROM A FIXED BLOCKSIZE TAPE.
Diagnosis:
PREAMBLE/POSTAMBLE ERRORS WERE BEING IGNORED.
Solution:
DON'T.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1904
Written by: ENGEL 26-Jul-78 14:09:27
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: NMAILR FTSCTL
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: ARPA UTILITIES ARE NOT FINDING VARIOUS
PARAMETER FILES UNDER REL 3A.
Diagnosis: THE UTILITIES SHOULD USE SYSTEM: INSTEAD OF PS:<SYSTEM>
Solution: CHANGE THE UTILITES
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1906
Written by: ENGEL 16-Aug-78 16:34:23
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: GTJFN
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: RENAME WITH * IN THE NEW FILE'S VERSION NUMBER GETS AND ILLEGAL
ACCOUNT (220100).
Diagnosis: PROBLEM IS IN MONITOR
Solution: IN GTJFN AT ENDAL2 A WRONG CHOICE IS MADE. THE CODE DOES
NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT AN FDB HAS BEEN CREATED. THUS TE SECOND GTJFN FOR
THAT FILE NAME USES THE PARTIAL FDB AND GETS THE ACCOUNT STRING WRONG.
TOPS20 Change Order Number 3A.1907
Written by: FORTMILLER 22-Aug-78 14:34:45
Edit checked: NO Document: NO
TCO Tested: NO Maintenance Release: NO
Program: MONITOR
Routines Affected: PHYM2
Related TCO's:
Related SPR's:
Problem: None Observed
Diagnosis: US.REW is being set at Start I/O time and should not be
set until after the attention interrupt.
Solution: Delete setting of US.REW in the Start I/O routine and
move it to the Attention Interrupt code.