Changes in Version 2.17.a2 since Version 2.17.1

as extracted from the "Changes" file in the CVS repository

• dd mon yyyy Description
• 05 May 2003 Write zeroes at end of file to increase its size if ftruncate doesn't work - Greg Smith, suggested by Andy Kane
• 05 May 2003 Meaningful error messages for invalid or unsupported parms to dasdinit - Greg Smith, suggested by John Summerfield
• 05 May 2003 Meaningful error messages for unconfigured compression - Greg Smith, suggestions by John McKown & Davud Booher
• 05 May 2003 Allow arbitrary number cckd cylinders - Greg Smith, suggested by Romain Capron
• 05 May 2003 Remove cckd zlib dependencies - Greg Smith, suggested by John Summerfield
• 28 Apr 2003 Changed 3270 Disconnect/Reconnect status presentation logic (should allow terminal disc/recon on MVS) - Ivan Warren
• 24 Apr 2003 Set PGID/Sense PGID/Assign/Unassign Corr to Tape Devices (fixes device Boxing when varied on twice) - Ivan Warren
• 23 Apr 2003 Shared devices fixes - Greg Smith
• 19 Apr 2003 Shared devices - Greg Smith
• 18 Apr 2003 270X Poll CCW Implementation
• 16 Apr 2003 Rework channel.c serialization - Greg Smith
• 16 Apr 2003 memrchr.[ch] added for Cygwin - Volker Bandke
• 15 Apr 2003 LCTL VM Assist - Ivan Warren
• 10 Apr 2003 DISP0/DISP1/DISP2 CP Assists - Ivan Warren
• 05 Apr 2003 Virtual Timer Assist - Ivan Warren
• 04 Apr 2003 Return IntReq on Card Read unsolicited Sense when the card reader is empty - Ivan Warren
• 03 Apr 2003 ECPS:VM SSM Correction, panel command rework (evm) and conditional debug messages - Ivan Warren
• 02 Apr 2003 Reordered int/dev locks in channel handler to avoid race conditions in certain situations - Ivan Warren
• 29 Mar 2003 Addl VM Assist support : SVC + SSM VM Assists new evmstat panel command No Timer Assist (do #CP SET ASSIST ON NOTMR) - Ivan Warren
• 27 Mar 2003 Initial minimal CPASSIST ECPS:VM/370 support - Ivan Warren
• 26 Mar 2003 Fix cckd locking problems, esp. during sf- and sfc - Greg Smith
• 26 Mar 2003 CKD now uses the same shared cache as cckd - Greg Smith
• 26 Mar 2003 Divorced cache management code from cckd code - Greg Smith
• 21 Mar 2003 BSC/2703 Line emulation - Ivan Warren
• 20 Mar 2003 Rework system logger functions - Jan Jaeger
• 19 Mar 2003 Tape : Present DE on IntReq for non-data motion CCWs Added deonirq=0|1 for 3410/3420 tapes in relation with MVS 3.8j issues - Ivan Warren
• 14 Mar 2003 Increased tbuf in het_write due specs compress2 - Bernard van der Helm
• 13 Mar 2003 Tape support update - see README.TAPE - Ivan Warren
• 13 Mar 2003 Call build_config even if NO_SIGABEND_HANDLER is defined - Ivan Warren
• 13 Mar 2003 Define extgui in dasdseq for Windows build - Ivan Warren
• 13 Mar 2003 AEA invalidation reduction - Greg Smith
• 13 Mar 2003 Gabor performance patch - optimize AEA invalidation - Greg Smith
• 08 Mar 2003 Remove panel/socketdevice dependency - Jan Jaeger
• 08 Mar 2003 Increased tape max blk sz to 64K-1 in hercules for DFDSS support - Ivan Warren
• 08 Mar 2003 Increased max block size to 64k-1 for tapecopy - Ivan Warren
• 08 Mar 2003 Set Byte 1 Bit 3 on IntReq for D/T 3505 to prevent Reader tasks from dying and filling ERDS + set sense size to 4 - Ivan Warren
• 06 Mar 2003 Relax numl1tab check - Greg Smith
• 03 Mar 2003 Relax CCKD track validation algorithm - Ivan Warren
• 02 Mar 2003 Set ref and change bits on store status - Jan Jaeger
• 01 Mar 2003 IA32 assemler reduction - Greg Smith
• 01 Mar 2003 Remove dead code - Greg Smith
• 01 Mar 2003 Fix to cckdload - somitcw (by Greg)
• 01 Mar 2003 More SMP fixes - Greg Smith
• 01 Mar 2003 Fix configuration parser error - Ivan Warren
• 27 Feb 2003 3390 jumbo (-27) definition - Adam Thornton (by Greg)
• 26 Feb 2003 Add util/cvslvlck cvs level check by Jim Morrison
• 26 Feb 2003 Add Signal Adapter instruction - Jan Jaeger
• 20 Feb 2003 FBA devtype update + script command support - Ivan Warren (by Greg)
• 08 Feb 2003 Fix dasdload message verbosity test (was backwards) - Jay Maynard
• 08 Feb 2003 Fix eof/intrq mode saving in card reader initialization, add * to specify no file loaded - Jay Maynard