HP OpenVMS 8.x manual Checking for Recovery Data, Next the menu is redisplayed

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 Section 7.11 (page 136).

6.3.5 Checking for Recovery Data

If 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. Use the PRODUCT UNDO PATCH command to remove the patches and kits.

The upgrade procedure now checks the disk for recovery data saved by the PCSI utility. Any recovery data must be removed before the upgrade can continue because this data becomes invalid after the upgrade. 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 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-2007 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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*If you continue, recovery data for the patches listed above will be deleted.

*The deletion of recovery data does not affect the installation status of

*patches applied to products that are not participating in this operation.

*However, continuing with this operation prevents you from uninstalling

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