POSC Specifications Version 2.2 Errata

Errata for POSC Version 2.2 Release

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The following are known problems and fixes for errors found in the specifications, documentation and sample implementations contained on the Devember, 1997 CDROM release of V2.2 of the POSC specifications. The PT-nnnn number refers to the POSC Tracking System number.

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CD-ROM

Problem	Cause	Fix
No problems have currently been reported.

HTML Files

Problem	Cause	Fix
03-APR-98 "File not found" error on some HTML files when the specs on the POSC CD-ROM are installed and served via a Netscape server.	Netscape server refuses to serve documents whose URL is contructed by javascript and has the "../" relative path in it.	Download the patch file: fix-for-netscape-server.tar.gz and apply at the root directory where the specs was installed to replace the "offending" files. An example of the cmd is: gzip -dc fix-for-netscape-server.tar.gz \| tar -xfv - A list of the HTML files fixed can be found in: fix-for-netscape-server_filelist.txt

Problem

Cause

Fix

03-APR-98
"File not found" error on some HTML files when the specs on the POSC CD-ROM are installed and served via a Netscape server.

Netscape server refuses to serve documents whose URL is contructed by javascript and has the "../" relative path in it.

Download the patch file:

fix-for-netscape-server.tar.gz

and apply at the root directory where the specs was installed to replace the "offending" files. An example of the cmd is:

gzip -dc fix-for-netscape-server.tar.gz | tar -xfv -

A list of the HTML files fixed can be found in:

fix-for-netscape-server_filelist.txt

Sample Implementations

Problem	Cause	Fix
Projection error with 'anyquantity' data type. More info available	Error in input file of projection tool	Partly available
Uniqueness errors when attempting to load the Haddock data set from dump file	The Haddock data MUST BE LOADED FIRST, before any tables are created or any additional data are loaded.	Make sure that the dump file is loaded after the database is created but BEFORE any additional data or tables are loaded.
Error in file $POSC_DAE/oCursor.cpp: line 379: oparse not defined and fixing simply by adding prototype defition will make the applications disfunctional.	Caused by an incomplete effort to upgrade OCI calls.	replace the whole line 379 if (oparse (C0,tempStatementPos,-1,1,1)) with if (osql3(C0,tempStatementPos, -1))

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