NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: SAA 1.3B Maintenance PTF DOCUMENT ID: TID250050 DOCUMENT REVISION: B DATE: 05APR94 ALERT STATUS: Yellow INFORMATION TYPE: Symptom Solution README FOR: PTF443.EXE NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION: NetWare for SAA 1.3B ABSTRACT: This file contains the current maintenance PTF for NetWare for SAA 1.3B. PTF 443 supersedes PTF435, and PTF438. PTF443 is recommended for all SAA 1.3B installations and all NetWare SAA 1.3 installations that have installed the PTF410 series. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION Other: GENERAL SYMPTOM The server hung in a multidrop environment. SYMPTOM RTS toggles to low even when set to constant high. SYMPTOM Spurious Interrupt error messages were displayed. SYMPTOM In some environment, pressing Attention during a logoff could result in a Profile Unload. SYMPTOM Problems gathering statistics through SSM were noted. SYMPTOM Problems using OS/2 Connection Manager were noted. SYMPTOM Failure to reestablish connect with host was noted. SYMPTOM Failure to respond to a DISC from NCP was noted. SYMPTOM The following message was displayed: MESSAGE DLCI Error: Unable to Attach to a Logical Board SYMPTOM Failure of the link to come up was noted. ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION Other: SNALINKS SYMPTOM Even though SNALINKS was configured for auto connect, the connection did not automatically come up after a link was downed. ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION Other: SAACOPY SYMPTOM When the user was trying to back up or restore SAA service files, the following message was displayed: MESSAGE Unable to open file SYMPTOM Downstream LUs were unable to establish host sessions. SYMPTOM SAACOPY was unable to copy between a 1.3 and a 1.4 Communication Server. SYMPTOM The following message was displayed: MESSAGE No more WCM connection SYMPTOM The following message was displayed: MESSAGE Error on Attach SYMPTOM PC hangs after using SAACOPY SYMPTOM In a VLM environment, the prompt changes to %p. ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION Other: AS/400 SYMPTOM Users are unable to access Shared Folders. ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION Other: Using NetView SYMPTOM Server crash when NetView issues a REQMS. SOLUTION Apply the files from the PTF443.EXE file. Self-Extracting File Name: PTF443.EXE Revision: B Files Included Size Date Time \ PTF443.TXT (This File) DLM.NLM 99615 10-15-93 9:53a *533 WCM.DLL 33129 08-26-93 5:43p *517 NWSAA.001 502 03-16-94 2:34p NWSAA.NLM 364510 02-16-94 11:05a *566, 545 NWSAA.RMV 1860 06-28-93 11:54a *545 SDLCS.NLM 39652 12-27-93 10:40a *557, 549 R3SDLC.LAN 22385 02-28-94 2:02p *570, 546 PRODUCT.DEF 433 02-15-94 5:10p *545 SAACOPY.EXE 262089 11-02-93 4:44p *541 SAACOPY.TXT 5781 03-10-94 4:41p SPC_FRM.HLP 67975 10-11-93 5:15p *541 STRNRTR.EXE 41757 10-22-93 4:39p *541 AS400PCS.NLM 18642 10-22-93 4:41p *535 CSINSTAL.HLP 2336 03-09-93 6:44p *545 MASTERTD.TXT 1299 12-03-93 6:15p NOVELLRT.OVL 6678 10-22-93 4:39p *535 PINSTALL.NLM 87963 06-10-93 11:29a *545 *Novell internal control number Installation Instructions: 1. Install this PTF ONLY IF you have NetWare for SAA 1.3B or have installed the PTF410 series. 2. Copy the files in the PTF onto a high-density floppy diskette. 3. Put that disk into the A: drive of the NetWare for SAA server. 4. Do a CSDOWN so that COMMEXEC will not be running. 5. LOAD Install. 6. Select Product Options. 7. Press INSERT. 8. Select server to update. 9. Press enter. 10. Wait for the update to complete. 11. Reload COMMEXEC 12. Reload the profile. 13. Copy the new STRNRTR.EXE over any copies that may exist outside of SYS:\SYSTEM\NWSAA\AS400 directory. 14. Read the SAACOPY.TXT file for new instructions on the use of SAACOPY. Patch History: PTF 443 supersedes all prior PTFs for NetWare for SAA 1.3B including PTF435 and PTF438. It also replaces the NetWire file SAACPY.EXE that introduced the problem of restored downstream LUs being unable to establish host sessions and PTF431 that was the first PTF for NetWare for SAA 1.3B. Solution Specifics: A. GENERAL R3SDLC.LAN was modified to correct problem 1, 2, and 3. 1. In a multidrop environment, the SAA server could hang if another device kept RTS high. 2. When CSCON was configured to keep RTS high, it was not kept high. 3. Spurious interrupts/ missed polls. 4. In some environments, pressing Attention during a logoff could result in a Profile Unload. 5. The R3SDLC and SDLCS were modified so that DTR is not toggled when SAA receives a disconnect command in a leased line configuration. 6. The new SDLCS acknowledges DISCs from NCP. 7. SDLCS.NLM was modified so that a "DLCI Error" will no longer result when loading both a PU2.0 and a PU2.1 profile to the same board. 8. The SDLCS.NLM was modified so that the link will no longer fail to come up when a DISC immediately follows SNRM/UA. B. SAACOPY 1. The CONFIG.SYS for the workstation from which you run SAACOPY must contain FILES=20 (or greater). If it does not, you will receive the error message "Unable to Open File" when you try to back up or restore SAA service files 2. If you backed up Downstream PU configurations with files in SAACPY.EXE and have to restore them, please contact the Sysop on NetWire in NCONNECT Section 3. 3. Previous versions of SAACOPY could not copy between a 1.3 Communications Server and a 1.4 Communications Server (or vice versa). 4. Connections were failing to clear. Therefore, as new connections were made the maximum number would be reached. 5. After a profile was copied onto a NetWare 4.01 server, an attempt to run CSCON from the same NetWare drive would cause the workstation to hang. 6. Under certain circumstances, the use of SAACOPY then CSCON, could result in the DOS prompt being changed to "%p". C. WITH SNALINKS Even though SNALINKS was configured for auto connect, the connection did not come back up automatically after a link was downed. D. SHARED FOLDERS Support for the "query conversation state" service verb has been added. Therefore, attempts to access Shared Folders will no longer result in a drive error. E. USING NetView When the new DLM.NLM is used, a server crash will no longer result from an REQMS resulting in a DLM_GET_STATISTICS or DLM_RESET_STATISTICS. �