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KERNEL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GUIDE Version 8.0 July 1995 Revised March 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Information & Technology (OI&T) Office of Enterprise Development (OED) Revision History Documentation Revisions The following table displays the revision history for this document. Revisions to the documentation are based on patches and new versions released to the field. Table i. Documentation revision history Date Version Description Authors 03/22/10 5.3 Updates: Oakland, CA Office of Information Field Office • Added Section 24.3, "Edit Install (OIFO): Status Option released with Kernel Patch XU*8.0*539. • Maintenance Development • Added Figure 24-4 Edit Install Manager—Jack Status option—Sample user Schram dialogue. • Developers—Gary Beuschel, Alan Chan, Ron DiMiceli, Wally Fort, Jose Garcia, Joel Ivey, Raul Mendoza, Roger Metcalf, and Ba Tran • Technical Writers— Thom Blom and Susan Strack 11/16/09 5.2 Updates: Oakland, CA OIFO: • Updated references to the • Maintenance CHCKSUM^XTSUMBLD direct Development mode utility throughout. Manager—Jack Schram • Updated the "Orientation" section. • Developers—Gary Beuschel, Alan Chan, • Updated organizational Ron DiMiceli, Wally references. Fort, Jose Garcia, Joel • Minor format updates Ivey, Raul Mendoza, (e.g., reordered document Roger Metcalf, and Ba revision history table to display Tran latest to earliest, added outline • Technical Writers— numbering). Thom Blom and Susan • Other minor format updates to Strack correspond with the latest standards and style guides. • Updated the "Automatically Deactivating Users" topic in July 1995 Kernel iii Revised March 2010 Systems Management Guide Version 8.0 Revision History Date Version Description Authors Chapter 3, "Signon/Security: System Management" for Kernel Patch XU*8.0*514. • Re-ordered and edited all topics in Chapter 15, "Device Handler: System Management." Also, added updates to the Device handler based on Kernel Patch XU*8.0*440. • Moved the following chapter content from the Kernel Systems Management Guide to the Kernel Developer's Guide, because the functions documented are more developer-related than system management-related: − Miscellaneous Programmer Tools: Programmer Options Menu and %Z Editor; see the "Miscellaneous Developer Tools" chapter in the Kernel Developer's Guide. − Routine Tools; see the "Routine Tools" topic in the "Toolkit: Developer Tools" chapter in the Kernel Developer's Guide. − Verification Tools; see the "Verification Tools" topic in the "Toolkit: Developer Tools" chapter in the Kernel Developer's Guide. − XGF Function Library; see the " XGF Function Library" topic chapter in the Kernel Developer's Guide. • Updated Section 9.1.3 and 9.1.6.2 for Kernel Patch XU*8.0*482. • Reviewed and updated all chapters for minor format changes (e.g., bulleted lists and tables), style updates, spelling, and grammar fixes. Software Version: 8.0 06/10/08 5.1 Updates: Oakland, CA OIFO: iv Kernel July 1995 Systems Management Guide Revised March 2010 Version 8.0 Revision History Date Version Description Authors • Updated the "Defining a Strong • Maintenance Verify Code" topic. Development Manager—Jack • Updated Chapter 5, "File Access Schram Security," based on the newly created VA FileMan (Version 22) • Developers—Gary and Kernel (Version 8.0) File Beuschel, Alan Chan, Access Security supplemental Ron DiMiceli, Wally document on the VDL. Fort, Jose Garcia, Joel Ivey, Raul Mendoza, • Deleted "Default Task Priority" Roger Metcalf, Skip topic from this manual. Ormsby, and Ba Tran • Moved the "Error Screens" topic • Technical Writer— from Chapter 22, "TaskMan: Thom Blom and Susan System Management— Strack Operation" to Chapter 13, "Error Processing." • Updated the "Alpha/Beta Tracking" topic in Chapter 23. Merged information from the Kernel Systems Management Guide (this manual) into the Kernel Developer's Guide in order to avoid duplication and confusion with instructions/procedures. • Updated VA OI&T organization changes and the document properties (e.g., Title, Author, Creation Dates, Keywords, etc.). • Updated references to the VDL. • Removed all references to HSD&D. • Updated Alert options in Figure 10-3 and added the missing descriptions for those Alert- related options. • Completed updates to remove obsolete references to MSM, PDP, 486, VAX Alpha, etc. and updated references to DSM for OpenVMS to Caché where appropriate. • Updated content references to checksum compares based on Kernel Patch XU*8.0*393. • Changed references from "%INDEX" to "XINDEX" where appropriate. July 1995 Kernel v Revised March 2010 Systems Management Guide Version 8.0 Revision History Date Version Description Authors • Updated Section III, Device Handler chapters. • Deleted "Kermit" section. • Updated "Special Queueing" topic in Chapter 22. Added Table 22-1. • Updated "Security Forms" section in Chapter 3, "Signon/Security: System Management." Software Version: 8.0 02/08/07 5.0 The Kernel Toolkit documentation set is Oakland, CA OIFO: being combined with the Kernel • documentation set. All Kernel Toolkit Maintenance content will be moved to the appropriate Development Kernel manual, section, and chapter. Manager—Jack Schram In the Kernel Systems Management Guide, the following Kernel Toolkit • Developers—Alan chapters have been added to the new Chan, Wally Fort, Jose "Toolkit" Section VI: Garcia, Joel Ivey, Mike Meighan, Raul • Multi-Term Look-Up (MTLU) Mendoza, Roger Metcalf, Skip Ormsby • Routine Tools and Ba Tran • Verification Tools • Technical Writer— • Also Changed Kernel document Thom Blom and Susan title references to: Strack • Kernel Developer's Guide (previously known as the Kernel Programmer Manual). • Kernel Systems Management Guide (previously known as the Kernel Systems Manual). Software Version: 8.0 07/13/06 4.0 Updates: Oakland, CA OIFO: • Made minor formatting updates • Maintenance throughout. Development Manager—Jack • Changed the original "Other Schram Tools" section to become the new "Toolkit" section, see note • Developers—Alan below. Chan, Wally Fort, and Joel Ivey • Added "Multi-Term Look-Up (MTLU)" and "Tools" chapters • Technical Writer:— from the original Toolkit User Thom Blom and Susan Manual (7.3), see note below. Strack • Removed the "Response Time vi Kernel July 1995 Systems Management Guide Revised March 2010 Version 8.0 Revision History Date Version Description Authors Measures" topic from the original "Capacity Management" chapter in the Toolkit User Manual (7.3), see note below. Kernel Toolkit Patch XT*7.3*102 removed all Response Time Log Option menu options [XURTL*]. • All Kernel Toolkit content currently in the Kernel Toolkit User Manual and Kernel Toolkit Technical Manual is being absorbed by the Kernel Systems Management Guide, Kernel Developer's Guide, and Kernel Technical Manual. Other Toolkit content has been replaced by other manual sets, including: − Duplicate Record Merge: Patient Merge − Resource Usage Monitor (RUM) − Statistical Analysis of Global Growth (SAGG) − Capacity Management (CM) Tools Software Version: 8.0 02/03/06 3.0 Updates: Oakland, CA OIFO Legacy VistA Maintenance Team • Reformatted document to the latest SOP and Style Guidelines. • Updated files, routines, options, APIs, security keys, etc. Software Version: 8.0 12/20/04 2.1 Reviewed document and edited for the Technical Writer—Thom Blom, "Data Scrubbing" and the "PDF 508 Oakland OIFO Compliance" projects. Data Scrubbing—Changed all patient/user TEST data to conform to OI&T standards and conventions as indicated below: The first three digits (prefix) of any Social Security Numbers (SSN) start with "000" or "666." Patient or user names are formatted as follows: XUPATIENT,[N] or XUUSER,[N] respectively, where the N is a number written out and incremented with each July 1995 Kernel vii Revised March 2010 Systems Management Guide Version 8.0 Revision History Date Version Description Authors new entry (e.g., XUPATIENT, ONE, XUPATIENT, TWO, etc.). Other personal demographic-related data (e.g., addresses, phones, IP addresses, etc.) were also changed to be generic. PDF 508 Compliance—The final PDF document was recreated and now supports the minimum requirements to be 508 compliant (i.e., accessibility tags, language selection, alternate text for all images/icons, fully functional Web links, successfully passed Adobe Acrobat Quick Check). Software Version: 8.0 12/09/04 2.0 Kernel 8.0 documentation Technical Writer—Thom Blom, reformatting/revision. Oakland OIFO This is the initial complete reformatting of the Kernel Systems Management Guide since its original release in July 1995. The largest change with the Kernel Systems Management Guide is that all developer-specific content has been extracted and placed into a new Kernel Developer's Guide. Also, at this point in time, only minimal content updates have been made based on select released Kernel patches. Due to time constraints, not all released Kernel patches with content changes have been added at this time. We wanted to get a new baseline document published so that in the future we can more easily update the Kernel Systems Management Guide. As time allows, we will be updating this reformatted manual with all released patch information that affects its content. Because of the chapter-numbering scheme, future additions can be made with minimal disruption to the entire manual page flow. Thanks for your patience! Software Version: 8.0 07/95 1.0 Initial Kernel 8.0 software and San Francisco, CA Office of documentation release Information Field Office (OIFO): Software