I use AVAILMAN (JAVA/Alpha based) and AMDS (MOTIF/VAX/Alpha based) on my
systems for a long time now (ok, AMDS much longer than AVAILMAN) but was
quite surprised today.

I thought, the two products do the same thing with different methods and
can coexist on the same Alpha. At least that was my impression of the
last years. And I use them both.

I installed AVAILMAN and AMDS on my Alphas and all was right. But today
I tried on another Alpha to use AMDS and found AMDS$CONSOLE.EXE missing.
After some seconds I found out, that the AVAILMAN installation deleted
the AMDS$CONSOLE.EXE on this system (on all my other systems, I did the
installation of AMDS after AVAILMAN and just didn't notice this behaviour).

So, do you have any idea, why AVAILMAN seems to want to get rid of AMDS ?
Is this intended or just a bug ?

TIA

-- 
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  peter@langstoeger.at
A-1030 VIENNA  AUSTRIA              I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist

Peter,

    Sorry for the delay, many things going on in getting a new release out
the door...
    This behavior is not intended.  The team here will check to see if there
are any problems.

Barry Kierstein
AM/DECamds Project leader

While we are on the subject of the AMDS/AvailMan installation:

Could you also have a look at the behaviour of the installation
procedure to replace the files AMDS$DRIVER_ACCESS.DAT,
AMDS$CONSOLE_ACCESS.DAT and AMDS$LOGICALS.COM instead of preserving
them?

Most products provide template files and instruct the system manager
to compare the actual files with the provided new templates and make
changes accordingly.

Thanks in advance!

Bart Zorn

"Barry Kierstein" <Barry.Kierstein@HP.Com> wrote in message news:<u84Xb.369$pK.180@news.cpqcorp.net>...
> Peter,
> 
>     Sorry for the delay, many things going on in getting a new release out
> the door...
>     This behavior is not intended.  The team here will check to see if there
> are any problems.
> 
> Barry Kierstein
> AM/DECamds Project leader

Bart,

    This is on the plate to do.  I definitely agree, and we see it every
time we install also.

Barry