On May 6, 2:37 am, JF Mezei wrote:
> It is that time of the year again, Hobbyist license renewalls :-)
>
> This year, I decided to have one DECterm do a
>
> LICENSE LIST/FULL/before/term=18-may-2008
>
> and then delete old licences and reload new ones for each of the
> products I have. (I only load licences I use, and I have some "real"
> licenses that I preserve, of course.)
:
:
> Turns out the LICENSE LIST command is taking locks on the database that
> prevents updates !
>
> So the suggestion is that LICENSE LIST shouldn't take out locks on the
> whole database/records so that from another window, we could them do
> updates to the database for each record that needs to be updated (or
> deleted and then replaced with new one).


Not a solution to the lock issue, but for cleaning up PAKs, I use the
process detailed in this article:

http://openvms.hobby-site.com/pivot/entry.php?id=9

This also references an ATW article -- the pertinent part is all the
way to the bottom of the article: "If you have very many terminated
PAKs..."

I've also used this process to keep PAKs that I don't want deleted:

http://openvms.hobby-site.com/pivot/entry.php?id=44

That way, I automate the entire process inside the PAK .com file,
rather than managing each license individually by hand (or DECterm, as
the case may be...)

HTH,
Aaron