Новая статья на сайте ecomstation.ru

2001-09-10 18:27:40 -- Igor Vanin [www.ecomstation.ru]

Дмитрий Поляков поднимает серьезную тему Plug'n'Play в OS/2 и предлагает направления, в которых нужно развивать eComStation. Читайте на нашем сайте статью Путь к Plug'n'Play (http://ecomstation.ru/showart.php?id=19).

SBLive 0.75

2001-09-10 17:32:14 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

New version of SBLive driver released. There's not much new in 0.75. Joystick support has been reactivated and some minor bugs were fixed.

It can be downloaded from http://www.xs4all.nl/~sandervl/sbliveos2.075.zip.

Sander van Leeuwen haven't tested it thorougly so if you find any new problems, let him know.

IBM Web Browser Updated

2001-09-10 17:28:52 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2world.com]

IBM has updated (8/31/2001) their branded version of Mozilla, based on Netscape 6.01 (Mozilla 0.6) and called "IBM Web Browser" for Software Choice subscribers.
URL: http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm.

Meta Clusters; OS Updates

2001-09-10 17:22:38 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2world.com]

Bill Nicholls has made favorable mention of OS/2 on byte.com again. He mentions the shipment of eCS 1.0, the Netscape and Mozilla updates, and a couple other tidibits. Thanks to Jon Schuck for the news.
URL: http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1141/byt20010820s0002/.

New NFTP v1.63

2001-09-10 17:16:53 -- Igor Vanin [#os2russian, TeL_GiS]

NFTP v1.63 released. URL: ftp://ftp.ayukov.com/pub/nftp/

The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group

2001-09-10 16:25:55 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Gary Wong]

The next meeting of the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG) will be this Saturday, September 15, 2001 at 9:00 AM PDT, at Regal Lanes in Orange, 1485 N. Tustin Ave.

SCOUG's 8th Anniversary Celebration and Installing Iterations of OS/2 eComStation, Warp 4, Convenience Pak, and Warp Server for e-Business.

What could be more fun than watching OS/2 install? Why, watching it install over and over again, of course!

Think we're joking? Well, think again. SCOUG members always seem to find the installation of OS/2 fascinating, so we're going to do it up royally.

We'll have several basically identical clean systems ready and waiting Saturday morning. The plan is to install a different OS/2 flavor on each machine, and our targets are eCS, Warp 4, Convenience Pak, and Warp Server for e-Business. And, we may even try installing eCS over an existing OS/2 desktop just to see what happens.

Cake? Did we mention cake? You already know to expect free donuts, but this September is extra special. It's our anniversary celebration after all, so of course there will be fattening treats for the occasion. And gifts? You bet! A super celebration raffle with no junk. You'd have to say we're packing a lot into this one meeting!

Help Desk chats now happen on Wednesday evenings at 7 PM PDT. If you've got a problem with hardware or software, join the chat and ask for help. For further info, go to http://www.scoug.com/chat/index.html.

Sunday, October 7, 2:30 PM PDT meetings at Chapman University, Orange:

OS/2 Help Desk: Got problems with your system? Volunteers at the OS/2 Help Desk will help you solve them. Bring your system and all related components along with a detailed explanation of your problem.

Networking SIG: Will be providing help to members with various networking issues.

How to get to Regal Lanes:

From the 55 freeway, exit Katella Ave. heading west. Turn right (north) at the first major intersection onto Tustin Ave. At the next signal you'll find Regal Lanes on your right. It's across from the Toyota of Orange dealership.

There's lots of parking on the south side of the building. Enter from the east entrance of the building (farthest from Tustin Ave.), not the main (front) entrance to the facility. Take the stairs to the 2nd floor; meeting rooms (and restrooms) will be on your left.

Handicapped access is via an elevator by the front door.

OR: Go to http://www.scoug.com/directions.html; there is a map to Regal Lanes, plus a more detailed map & driving directions from Yahoo!

How to get to Chapman University:

There are two ways to get directions:
1) Go to http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest/sitemap.html
2) Go to http://www.mapquest.com/ and enter the address 400 N. Center Street, Orange, CA.

You can park in any of the University lots for free on Sundays, but if you part on the street, watch the signs carefully or else risk getting a parking ticket.

Come to Hashinger Hall Science Building, room 203. It's on the second floor and there's an elevator for you to bring up your equipment.

Come and join us!

PMNRDX fixed

2001-09-10 16:19:00 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Peter Engels]

PMNRDX is a folder and group reindexer for Stardocks PMINews. Sometimes PMINews crashes the indexfiles, so that none of the postings is accessable. PMNRDX recreates these indexfiles. I have uploaded the 20kB Zip archive to hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming and placed it on my homepage http://p-engels.de.vu.

Tauto AVC

2001-09-10 16:16:41 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

Here you can find a answering machine named Tauto AVC for the US Robotics Courier Modem: http://avcos2.narod.ru/tauto.html.

As the page is in russian I can't give you more informations, sorry, but the program itself is in english. For downloading search the 'blue links' on the site

Updated Netbeans scripts

2001-09-08 22:24:32 -- Igor Vanin [www.ecomstation.com, Gili Tzabari]

New OS/2 scripts for Netbeans to overcome the SYS1065 problems people have been running into.

Please download the latest daily build from http://www.netbeans.org/ (any build AFTER 200109050100 will do) and report any problems you might run into.

Netbeans is an open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Java.

eCS Forums Updated

2001-09-08 22:22:51 -- Igor Vanin [www.ecomstation.com]

To help make asking questions and getting answers easier for everyone, we've updated the eComStation Forums to better catagorize Tech Support inquiries.

If you've never been to the eCS Forums you can click on the "eCS Community" link on the menu system, then "Forums" on the left menu, or just "click here" to jump there directly.

URL: http://www.ecomstation.com/ecs_community_view.phtml?url=content/forums.html

X-Commander b23 is ready

2001-09-08 22:21:31 -- Igor Vanin [#os2russian, BigWolK]

URL: ftp://ftp.projects.os2.ru/x-commander/xc20_23b.zip

Zeryk Software and Warpstock

2001-09-08 22:20:26 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Luc Van Bogaert]

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Zeryk Software will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.

Zeryx has been in business for 5 years, providing network and software solutions for small businesses. ZxMail Server is a multi-domain POP3 and SMTP server that also allows you to redistribute mail from an external POP3 account to users or domains on your server. ZxMail was previously distributed to private clients, but it now has been rewritten from the ground up to provide the best mail server running on OS/2.

For more information on Zeryx Software and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.zeryx.com.

The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.

Justice: We Won't Break Up Microsoft

2001-09-08 21:59:25 -- Igor Vanin [www.benews.ru]

(CBS) The Justice Department announced Thursday that it no longer is interested in seeking a court-ordered breakup of software giant Microsoft. The Bush administration is gearing up for the penalty phase of the continuing antitrust case against the software giant later this month.

Text of the federal announcement:
http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,309913-412,00.shtml

SIO free upgrade

2001-09-08 21:56:10 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Ray Gwinn]

Users of SIO version 1 with serial numbers of 10025400 and up are eligible for free upgrades to SIO version 2. Those users can now go to http://sio2k.gwinn.com and request their free SIO2K upgrade.

pwICQ was updated

2001-09-08 21:52:29 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Konstantin Okounkov]

pwICQ is an OS/2 native PM multithreaded ICQ client.
URL: http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/trevize/pwICQ/updates.html

Potential problem with DB2 UDB for OS/2 5, 6, 7

2001-09-08 21:35:51 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Timothy Sipples]

IBM is notifying you of a potential problem with DB2 UDB for OS/2 Versions 5, 6 and 7 that may cause DB2 backups using USEREXITs to fail on or after September 8th or 9th, 2001, based on the timezone the machine operates under. This may require you to either install a fix or to follow a workaround procedure to circumvent the problem. Please forward the attached note to all affected users immediately.

Problem: On September 8th or 9th, 2001 (i.e., 21:46:40 Sept 8 EST (Toronto time) or 01:46:40 Sept 9 GMT), the 32-bit time value gains a digit to go from 999999999 to 1000000000. The exact time of the failure will depend on which timezone the machine operates under. The result is that DB2 will not pass the fifth parameter, the MODE or sequence #, to the BACKUP USEREXIT. As a result of this, after this date/time database backups on OS/2 via a USEREXIT for a database alias of 8 characters will no longer work and as such a backup will not be taken.

The error or message seen will depend on how the USEREXIT is coded. If you are using the default USEREXIT, you will see an invalid parameter error being reported by the USEREXIT.

DB2 Products affected: This problem is only related to the OS/2 platform and does not affect other USEREXITs (eg. LOG) or backups taken without USEREXITs.

Impact: Inability to perform DB2 UDB backups on OS/2 via a USEREXIT as of September 8th or 9th, 2001 (i.e., 01:46:40 Sept 9 GMT, or 21:46:40 Sept 8 EST).

Resolution: Apply DB2 UDB for OS/2 APAR JR16294 or use the suggested workaround.

Fix Availability: Fix Status for releases currently in service: The fix for this problem has been uploaded to the DB2 UDB FIXPAK FTP site in the OS/2 directory for each release currently in service and we are developing a fix for V5 (out of service). The patched DLLs are stored in the archive file JR16294.zip. All national language versions use the same patch. A readme in the same directory (English only) is available to outline the problem/workaround/patch installation (JR16294.TXT).

Location of FIX for V 6.1 FixPak 8: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v61/FP8_WR21255/ Location of FIX for V 7.1 FixPak 3: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v7/FP3_WR21251/

Note that this fix can only be applied to specified FIXPAK levels (FixPak 3 for V7.1 and FixPak 8 for V 6.1) and will not correct the problem for customers on special/private builds. They will either need to upgrade to one of these levels before applying the patch or will need to use the workaround until the next FixPak is made available.

Fix Status for releases which are not in service (V5 only) where customers may have a service extension:

Location of FIX for V 5.2 FixPak 16: A fix is being developed and will be uploaded to ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english/db2os2v5/FP16_WR21262/ location. The fix will be in a file called "db22v5_JR16294.zip" and a readme in the same directory (English only) will also be available to outline the problem/workaround/patch installation (JR16294.TXT). We are expecting to have this fix developed and uploaded by end of day Friday, September 7, 2001, Toronto time.

Note that this fix could only be applied to V5.2 FixPak level 16 and will not correct the problem for customers on special/private builds. They will need to use the workaround.

TCO Customers can use one of the following options:

• Upgrade to one of the above listed levels and apply the available patch for your Version/FixPak level.
• Contact your local DB2 support organization and provide all the service/build level for your TCO to request a special fix. In the meantime, you may have to use the workaround to circumvent the problem until a fix can be made available for the requested TCO level.

Workaround: Catalog another database alias to your database using 7 characters or less and use this database alias for performing your backups. You must ensure that the restores are performed using the same database alias as was used for the backup. By cataloging a separate alias, you avoid having to reconfigure all your remote database clients, making it transparent to your users.

Questions: Use the standard 24X7 BAU service and escalation procedure to contact your local support organization.