There are additional items beyond the requirements above that should be taken into consideration before installing D3 AIX 9.1.
If you are using OpenDB and you are upgrading to D3 AIX 9.0 or later, you must also upgrade to OpenDB 3.3. OpenDB 3.3 is available in versions that allow using 32 bit ODBC drivers or 64 bit ODBC drivers. Contact your sales representative or customer support for details on obtaining the upgrade to OpenDB 3.3.
You must obtain a new copy of any third-party product that uses assembly code (for example, Accuplot, PowerComm, Jet, and so on). Third-party products that use assembly code must be reassembled on 9.1. Contact Rocket Customer Service for information on obtaining a D3 9.1 Assembler
When writing to a floppy disk (for example, if you are performing an account-save or a t-dump), you must execute either the t-det (detach the tape) or t-rew (rewind the tape) command before removing the floppy disk from the device.
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WARNING |
The floppy device may not clear the last buffer if one of the two commands is not executed. Consequently, some of the data may not be written to the floppy disk. |
In D3 version 7.1.0, the label size for 8mm tapes was changed from 512 to 80 bytes. Tapes created on earlier releases of AP or D3 can be read using this release by setting the label to 512 bytes.
To read D3 9.0 or later tapes on other platforms using an earlier release of AP or D3, the label size must be adjusted to 80 bytes.
Where n is the device number:
To change the label size to 512 bytes, enter:
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chg-device n label=512 |
To change the label size to 80 bytes, enter:
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chg-device n label=80 |
For problem reporting, please include the installation version number. This number can be found on the upper part of the screen after booting the installation and ramdisk images.
In the case where an OSFI server, due to a socket or network failure, has a return stack entry of rps.fatal.err, as displayed by the where command, servers need to be stopped and restarted from the network-setup menu.
The set-time command changes the D3 time but not the AIX time.
Starting with D3 9.0, the default compression routine employs gzip instead of compress. As such, a save on a D3 9.0 or later system cannot be read on a D3 7.5 system without making changes.
Any function that returns a pointer, such as %malloc, must be type cast as a char*. For example
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x=char(*)%malloc(size) |
The sys$imp function returns a new platform, AIX64.