Thanks Michael/James for your advice on the codesets. We are going to try
Michael's "patch" for forcing the LANG variable to En_US, by creating a
/usr/OV/bin/netnmrc.pre script with those statements in it. We have a
similar setup for the NetView user's profiles. So far there have not been
any problems. We'll let you know if anything strange happens.
Thanks!
Joel Gerber - I/T Networking Professional - USAA Information Technology Co.
- San Antonio, TX
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Seibold [SMTP:Michael.Seibold@GEK.DE]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:16
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: Re: Antw: Re: AIX Codeset for NetView 5.1.2 --
Hi James,
I understand what you want to say. And I don't think there is a need
to change all the netview code to get it working for different languages -
english should be OK for every network responsible.
All I wanted to say regarding the "bug" is that someone at
tivoli/IBM already thought about this LANG problem, but made a little
mistake.
If you look at /etc/netnmrc, it is obvious that
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
if [ "$LANG" = "C" ] || [ "$LANG" = "" ] ; then
LANG=En_US
export LANG
fi
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
won't work for most LANG values as it should.
Here my patch:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
# Force LANG to En_US, regardless of user defined value
LANG=En_US
export LANG
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------
and everything will work fine.
Thats all. For us users it's a bug, for you not, as no one reported
it.
So long
Michael
>>> James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> 16.02.2000 16.42 Uhr >>>
Michael -
Not being involved in any of your implementation issues in the past,
I did not
mean to get you excited about them. It is not my intent to rub salt
in your
wounds or belittle your problems. I am as sorry as anyone can be
that the
product does not do what you want. And I am sorry for your
December 30th
problem as well, but not being involved in that, I don't have
anything helpful I
can say about it. And I am not surprised that hiring an outside top
gun for
UNIX could not resolve your problems. If the code could be easily
modified by
someone who knew little about its internals and no access to the
source, then it
would really surprise me.
But the reason I asked you if you reported your "bug" , is this.
NetView for
UNIX is certified as requiring En_US on AIX and no other English
environment.
Period. Thus it is not a bug, I think, but a an enhancement
request, to have
another language environment supported. This would be no different
than adding
German or Spanish. Even without translation it requires a great
deal of work
to alter the product to add new message catalogs and to then verify
that no
other components require matching changes as you seem to have
discovered with
snmpCollect.
I am sorry you had so many problems but the real issue seems to be
that your
concerns did not reach the right people, and I don't know why not.
I cannot
answer for that. If you want to revisit any of your issues with
your marketing
rep as customer satisfaction issues, or reopen them with calls to
official
IBM/Tivoli support, so they can be looked at by NetView Level 2,
please fee free
to do so.
All I wanted to do was to point out that the issue gets confused
by calling it
a known bug, when in fact there is no official record of it and no
plans to fix
it. If you want a bug fixed, you have to report it. If the
official result of
this report is that this issue is in fact a design change, an
enhancement, then
you will have to ask that a formal enhancement request be opened
and have
development address it in a future release.
That's the only point I was trying to make.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
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