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appropriate if you suspect that files in the operating system,
or in the windowing and network products have become corrupted.
If you want to reinstall or upgrade any of the products you installed
along with the OpenVMS operating system installation, choose "Install
or upgrade layered products" (option 3) from the main menu.
If you want to change your choices about which options you included
for any of the products you installed along with the OpenVMS operating
system installation, choose "Reconfigure installed products" (option 5)
from the main menu.
Next the menu is redisplayed:
Please choose one of the following:
1) Reconfigure the OpenVMS platform.
2) Reconfigure the OpenVMS operating system.
3) Reinstall the OpenVMS operating system.
4) Return to the Main Menu (abort the upgrade/installation).
Enter choice or ? for help: (1/2/3/4/?)
For additional configuration information, see
6.3.5 Checking for Recovery Data
When you specify the /SAVE_RECOVERY_DATA qualifier with the PRODUCT INSTALL
command, the PCSI utility saves information that can be used for removing patches and
mandatory update kits at a later time. The PRODUCT UNDO PATCH command removes the
patches and kits. (The /SAVE_RECOVERY_DATA qualifier and PRODUCT UNDO PATCH
command were first added to OpenVMS Alpha in Version 7.3-2; they were backported to
OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2-2, 7.3, and 7.3-1.)
The upgrade procedure, after entering the PRODUCT INSTALL command, checks the target
disk for recovery data that was saved by the PCSI utility during patch installations. If no recovery
data is present, the upgrade continues. If recovery data is present and all the data found applies
only to the OpenVMS operating system, the upgrade procedure deletes the data and continues.
The data is deleted because it becomes invalid after the upgrade and the disk space freed up
might be needed during the upgrade. (The procedure does not display the deletion of the files
because earlier patches to OpenVMS are always removed as part of the upgrade.) If any of the
recovery data applies to products other than the OpenVMS operating system, then the upgrade
procedure displays a message similar to the following:
The target system has recovery data from PRODUCT operations which
used the /SAVE_RECOVERY_DATA qualifier. This data must be deleted
to continue the OpenVMS upgrade.
Please examine the following display.
If you wish to delete this data and continue the OpenVMS upgrade,
answer YES to the question "Do you want to continue?"
If you do not wish to delete this data, answer NO. A NO answer
will preserve the recovery data and abort the OpenVMS upgrade.
The following patch recovery data has been selected:
RECOVERY DATA SET 001 created 25-JUL-2009 15:23:39.69
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PATCH APPLIED TO
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JAK VMS RM1 V1.0 JAK VMS RMTEST V1.0
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