OS/2 2.0 Service Pak Advance Information Update

September 30, 1992

This is an update to information posted September 18, 1992.

IBM intends to produce two versions of a Service Pak for OS/2 2.0. One version will contain fixes for OS/2 2.0 and will include the 32-bit Graphics Engine, which will replace the 16-bit Graphics Engine when the Service Pak is installed. The second version of the Service Pak will only contain fixes for OS/2 2.0. Both of these Service Paks are designed to be applied to the OS/2 2.0 product as released in March, 1992. However, they will be mutually exclusive; only one of them can be applied. If you apply the version containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine and later decide that you do not want it, you would have to reinstall the original OS/2 2.0 and then apply the second version of the Service Pak without the 32-bit Graphics Engine.

The version of the Service Pak containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine was targeted to be available electronically at the end of September. IBM has been working feverishly to meet that target. However, based on feedback generated by the earlier announcement and results of testing, we have decided to include additional fixes in the Service Paks. These fixes require additional code and test time. In addition to testing these fixes, IBM is performing tests on the Service Pak as an entity to ensure that the individual APAR fixes are compatible when integrated into the system. IBM continues to make and test fixes and to assess the content of the Service Pak to ensure that the proper fixes are included and that high quality fixes are delivered.

The version of the Service Pak containing the 32-bit Graphics Engine will be made available electronically via IBMLINK OS/2 BBS, CIS, NSC BBS, INTERNET, and other external sources as soon as it is ready, meaning that it has the proper content and the right level of quality. The current outlook is that it will be available prior to mid-October. The version of the Service Pak without the 32-bit Graphics Engine will be available at a later date.

Full Service Pak contents, delivery mechanisms, and availability will be announced once the Service Paks are completed and schedules are formalized.

Please use the following information for your planning purposes, and not as a commitment to deliver any specific APAR, or to guarantee any specific delivery date.

The APAR fixes currently available for inclusion in the Service Paks are listed below. The fixes added since the previous announcement are listed first. Please bear in mind that this is a preliminary list and that the information about availability refers to target dates. Additional APARs are being addressed on an ongoing basis. APAR fixes will be added as testing completes.

APAR LIST (PRELIMINARY)
For Service Pak XR06050 as of Wednesday, September 30, 1992

APARS added since previous announcement
APAR   Defect Abstract --- - JR05097 DOSFREESEG IS CAUSING INTERNAL PROCESSING ERROR. SYSTEM JR06321 QUEUE PROCESSOR SHOULD NOT ISSUE ERROR MESSAGE ON PLAYME JR06464 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE PJ03757 FATAL TRAP 000E (PAGE FAULT)RUNNING APP USING MS CODE PJ03780 XCOPY COMMAND DOESN'T WORK IN LAN ENVIRONMENT       APA PJ03803 FIND/LOCATE FOR NEW PGM SETTINGS NO DISPLAY ALL DRIVES PJ03811 FSFILTER DOESN''T ALLOW REDIRECTION UNDER DR DOS PJ03838 OAK TECHNOLOGIES VIDEO ROM MACHINES WILL NOT INSTALL PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD PJ04052 4 MEG PERFORMACE PACK FOR HPFS PJ04059 POST ICONS LOST FROM A COPY OF A PROG REF AFTER REBOOT PJ04066 OS2-2.0 NLS CANNOT COPY TO CLIPBD IN PM AND PASTE WINOS2 PJ04211 OS/2 BOOT MANAGER DOES NOT WORK WITH UNIX PJ04217 BRING IN LOST IDSS/CMVC PTRS PJ04220 OS/2 SWITCHES SOME CLONES INTO SLOW (NON-TURBO) MODE. PJ04284 BASICA HALTS CLONE SYSTEM. PJ04324 ABIOS RQB TOO SMALL PANIC COMING FROM IBMTOU.SYS PJ04325 CODEVIEW, /O OPTION, DEBUGGING CHILD PROCESSES, HANGS WH PJ04358 5.1 CAUSES TRAP0 IN THE KRNL WHILE IN A DOS F SCRN PJ04402 NEW PORT DRIVER SETTINGS NEVER CALLED PJ04470 TRAP D IN LDRGETTKMODULEINFO CS:EIP=160:FFF5CBDB PJ04540 TRAP 000D CS:EIP= 04E8 : 00002889  CSACC= 009F  CSLIM= PJ04587 IPE PANIC IN SELREMDISCREC PJ04664 TSENG 3000 VIDEO BOARDS CAUSE FLICKER AT TOP OF SCREEN. PJ04669 PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT NOT SIMULATED INTO DOS SESSION PJ04819 THE COMMAND REFERENCE COM.SYS INFORMATION IS INCOMPLETE PJ04878 SYS2237 GENERATED ON NPX INSTRUCTIONS, UNDER REAL DOS WO PJ04895 RETRY SHOULD BE DEFAULT PUSHBUTTON FOR PRINTER OFF-LINE PJ04960 SYSTEM TAKES TOO LONG TO CLOSE & OPEN WINDOWS, STALLED A PJ05044 EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION STALLS AT 384 PJ05093 DOSCONNECTNMPIPE RETURNS 109 IN 2.0 PJ05157 6.412 KERNEL FIX CAUSES PMV2001 RUNNING SEAMLESS WINDOW PJ05360 CAN'T OPEN ALL ICONS IN PRODUCTIVITY FOLDER - PMWIN HEAP PJ05438 EPM TRAP 12 IN ETKE550.DLL PJ05594 WIN-OS/2 XGA SCREEN BLACKS OUT IF POP-UP MESSAGE PJ05673 NETWORK PRINT OBJECT TRUNCATES NAMED PIPE TO 8 CHARACTER PJ05679 CTRL-ESC DOES NOT DISPLAY W.L. WHEN A DISABLED BUTTON HA PJ05683 BACKGROUND PROGRAM CAN'T CONTINUE WHEN VIOPOPUP IN FOREG PJ05742 LOTUS: WINDDEINITIATE API CALL CAUSES ACCESS VIOLATION PJ05763 OBJECT POINTER WHICH DOES NOT POINT TO ANY CLASS HANGS W PJ05769 ATM TRAPS WITH FONT WITH LARGE KERNING TABLE PJ05787 CUSTOMER NEEDS 122 KEYBOARD FUNCTION KEYS SUPPORTED BY P PJ06018 VWIN.SYS PLACED IN CONFIG.SYS WHEN DOS/WIN NOT INSTA PJ06019 RSPFILE INSTALL WON''T INSTALL 8514/A WHEN USING SEMAINT PJ06031 4 MB FILESYSTEM EA PERFORMANCE PJ06032 INSTALLING PRINTERS FROM THE CONTROL PANEL KILLS VDM PJ06035 MYSTIFY SCREENSAVER CAUSES A GP FAULT AND KILLS VDM PJ06057 SYSTEM HANGS DOING DDE W/AMIPRO TO OS2DDE.EXE PJ06058 NACK RUNNING DDE, DIB FORMAT, PM CLIENT / WIN SRVR, VGA PJ06059 INSUFFICIENT MEMORY ERROR WHEN PERFORMING DDE PJ06060 CLIPBOARD AND DDE CAN NOT BE SWITCHED TO PRIVATE PJ06071 VXGA/SYSTEM DEADLOCKED WAITING FOR COPROCESSOR NOT BUSY PJ06072 WINDOWING SVGA 1024X768X16 CREATES A BLANK (BLACK) WINDO PJ06073 SVGA.EXE IN A WINDOW PRODUCES TRAPS OR ERROREOUS DATA PJ06074 CORRUPTED DOS FS IMAGE (EVEREX CARD) PJ06075 CURSOR CORRUPTION ON SWITCH TO FULLSCREEN WINDOWS SESSIO PJ06076 XGA/VGA: SEAMLESS WINDOWS APP ALLOWS ICONS TO BLEED THRO

APARS listed in previous announcement
APAR   Defect Abstract --- JR05522 GETPATH ROUTINE IN DIR.ASM TRAPS - DOSQ JR05562 MLE''S RESPONSE TO SV_INSERTMODE IS BACKWARDS JR05775 APP STARTED WITH RUN= IN CONFIG.SYS HANGS SYSTEM IF XGA JR05855 PRINT MGR NOT PRINTING JOBS SEQTLY IF JR06200 PRINT 120+ JOBS FROM IWP/2 GENERATES PMERR_SPL_NO_MEMORY PJ01512 NEED TO EXPORT PRINT OBJECT FUNCTIONS PJ01667 WINCREATEOBJECT SUCCEEDS, THEN FAILS W/ PJ02058 WINCREATEOBJECT RETURNS INVALID MSG QU PJ02271 WINADDATOM CAN ONLY HANDLE STRING PJ03080 WPSCANSETUPSTRING STEPS OFF END OF PSZ PJ03143 TRAP 6 & NPX ERROR WHEN TRYING TO LOAD PJ03174 DOS PATH COMMAND OUTPUT IS SHORT ONE C PJ03510 CANT CREATE OBJECTS WITH MULTIPLE DOS PJ03534 TRACEBUF IS CLEARED WHEN EXIT OPTION IS USED IN TRACE PJ03575 DRIVES SUB-FOLDERS NOT INHERITING VIEW SETTINGS PJ03582 DPMI APP (RATIONAL SYSTEM S PORTIA16) PJ03638 WIN-OS2 4129 PRINTER DRIVER CANNOT FIND 300.DRV ERROR PJ03647 REMOVE TITLEBAR FROM SYSTEM CLOCK-CAN''T OPEN SETTINGS PJ03652 THE DATE COMMAND IN DOS DOESN T WORK F PJ03656 MINIMIZING THINGS TO DESKTOP MINIMIZES THEM TO MWV PJ03661 FIX PROBLEMS W/PMTAPE ON UCHANNEL MACHINES PJ03666 DOS VERSION OF LOTUS REQUIRES MEM COMMAND IN MVDM PJ03671 CANT PRINT TO A LOCAL QUEUE DEFINED TO PJ03677 TSENG ET4000 TC6059AF+ OUT OF S PJ03684 LISTBOX DIV BY 0 SETTING FONTNAMESIZE PJ03685 WPS BOTCHES COPIES OF MULTIPLE FILES/SU PJ03686 SWAPPER.DAT NOT SHRINKING ON MOD 90 PJ03696 MSG PMV2001, NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO OPEN FOLDER. PJ03701 DETACH SEEMS TO FAIL ON 2.0 PJ03709 SYS3176 WHEN DOS SETTING DOS HIGH AND UMB IS SET TO O PJ03716 FILE ICON MOVED OVER OBJECT ICON CORRUPTS WPSH DISPLAY PJ03717 JIGSAW.EXE CAN HANG DESKTOP. PJ03721 APPR: SVGA:OEM SYSTEMS W/ WESTERN DIGITAL PJ03726 LOOP IN VPICA.ASM PJ03733 DOSDELETE BY 2 PROCESS USING UNC FILES CAU PJ03738 NAMED PIPE API SUPPORT IN VDM DOESN T PJ03740 PMV6011 ERROR WHEN PRINTING FROM OFFICEVIS PJ03743 SIMPLE BASIC PROGRAM LOCKS UP SYSTEM PJ03748 IPE-LDRVALIDATEMTEHANDLE RUN MS CODEVIEW(CVP) OF DOS PJ03755 RAPID ALT-HOME SWITCHING CAUSES VID CORRUPTION OR HANG PJ03771 USING IBM 122 KEYBOARD AND GA CODE, INSTALL FAILS AFTER PJ03785 2.0 INSTALL HANGS ON INSTALL DISK, ZEOS 386SX NOTEBOOK PJ03788 CTTY COM2: WORKS, BUT KEEPS RESENDING PJ03807 HARD TO SEE MOUSE POINTER ON L40 LAPTOP PJ03837 BLACK ICONS SEEN IN WOR PJ03849 OBJECT NOT GOING DORMANT WHEN THEY SHOULD PJ03852 ICED HANGS DURING COLOR FILL ON 8514 EDITING FOLDER PJ03854 FOCUS RETURNED TO INCORRECT PLACE AFTE PJ03863 MODE CO132 FOR XGA FAILS TO PROPERLY SET FONT ON MOD PJ03889 PROCOMM PLUS CAUSES SYSTEM HANG ON GA PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD PJ03905 DESKTOP STILL SWITCHED TO WHEN REMOVED PJ03911 OS2 EMULATOR/OS2 WINDOW HANGS WHEN DES PJ03912 COM.SYS SHOULD NOT HAVE ERROR LIMIT PJ03918 USING OS/2 ON ISA MACHINES WITH MORE THAN 16 MEG RAM. PJ03933 VMONO.SYS ALLOWING ACCESS TO 16K, BUT SAVING ONLY 4K PJ03937 DOSNEWSIZE INTEGRITY PROBLEM ON HPFS PJ03939 CAN T ACCESS 360KB 5 1/4 INCH DISKETTE PJ03942 NOBODY CALLS WINFREEDRAGINFO WHEN DRAG COMPLETES. PJ03945 REXX: VALUE( OS2ENVIRONMENT ) TO SET E PJ03946 INVALID MSG Q RETURNED FROM WINCREATEO PJ03970 REGR:IPE AT 0160:FFF6FC01 - 000D:00015 PJ03973 INSERT/OVERWRITE MODE IS TOGGLED INCORECTLY - NUMLOCK ON PJ03981 OBJECT CREATED FROM TEMPLATE FOLDER CANNOT BE DELETED PJ03997 PRINTING TO NETWORK PRINTER FROM PM AP PJ03998 HIMEM.SYS FROM DOS 5.0 WIPES SYSTEM IN A VM BOOT SES PJ04026 WINSENDMSG NEVER RETURNS WITH BM_QUERYCHECKINDEX PJ04027 BACKUP UTILITY DOES NOT BACKUP EMPTY SUBDIRS (FOLDERS PJ04032 IPE OCCURS IN XCPFATALDISPATCHERROR (XCPTMISC.ASM) PJ04050 +/- SIGN NOT ALWAYS SHOWN IN TREE-VIEW IN DRIVES FOLD PJ04056 SYSTEM HANGS WITH 2456 SCSI SCANNER UNDER OS/2 2.0 WITH PJ04060 POST SLIDER UPDAT SOMETIMES DO NOT ERA PJ04064 PAINTJET AND 311 THIS FILE SYSTEM ERROR PJ04068 OS2DASD: ALLOCATE IORB SHOULD BE PASSE PJ04070 GENERIC INT 13: SYSTEM DOESN T BOOT IN PJ04072 BUTTON 2 DRAG IS SELECTING THE W PJ04081 VDM TRAP D S IN FILE SYSTEM PJ04082 MS C7.0 WONT RUN IN A VDM, DPMI IS NOT FULLY COMPA PJ04090 FFIX DOES NOT WORK WITH FAPI OR LANS PJ04136 VDM/FULLSCREEN GOES BLACK AFTER DOWNLOADING FONTS PJ04139 MLE CREATED W/WINCREATESTDWINDOW, EDIT PJ04155 INCORRECT PRINTER DRIVER CHOSEN FOR TWO QUEUES (IBMN PJ04164 DOS VERSION SETTING LOST SHELLING OUT F PJ04191 OS/2 DOS WINDOW FAILURE PJ04207 INFORMATION NOT CLEANED UP WHEN FOLDER PJ04208 FOCUS GIVEN TO MINIMIZED WINDOWS PJ04215 SCROLLBARS ARE SBS_AUTOTRACK-SBM_QUERYPOS CHNGD FROM 1.3 PJ04240 INSTALL FROM B DRIVE PJ04242 The AUTOSTART option for shell objects does not work. PJ04248 DEVHLP WITH LOCK SERVICE CAUSES MACHINE TO STOP PJ04264 PGUNLOCK CAUSES IPE WHILE CLOSING COMM MGR FOLDER PJ04265 FIND NEXT WITH A BAD DTA CAN TRAP THE PJ04273 IPE WHEN STARTING LAN REQUESTER PJ04276 ZORTECH DOS COMPILER RETURNS DPMI ERRO PJ04303 DOSREADQUEUE HANGS INTERMITTENLY WITH DOSSTARTSESSION PJ04305 CURSOR DRAW - PAGES NOT LOADED/LOCKED PJ04313 TRAP E - CS:EIP = 160:FFF888A7 - TKWAKEUP PJ04337 TRAP 8 FAULT IN THE PAGE FAULT HANDLER PJ04338 32-BIT COREL DRAW''S IMR DRIVER DOES NOT WORK PJ04342 UTILIZE COMPRESSION MODES IN LASERJET PRINTERS PJ04348 VDISK NEEDS TO WORK ABOVE 16 MEG. PJ04370 FKA.DLL IS NOT PROPERLY SUPPORTED UNDER 2.0. PJ04377 TRAP D IN PSTAT (F:000016A5) PJ04440 XCOPY RETURNING INAPPROPRIATE EXIT/RETURN CODE IE. ERROR PJ04444 PMREXX TRAP E REXXAPI:CODE32:__EDCTHUN PJ04456 VCOM/COM.SYS (SYS1201) ERROR IF MOUSE ON COM1 & NO COM2 PJ04500 IPE ## 0F00 : 00000D0F - 0002 : 0D0F 60000, 2008 DOING PJ04507 IBM SCSI ADAPTER SYSTEM IO PROBLEMS PJ04509 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE PJ04519 TRAP000E CS:EIP 0160 FFF7FA79 CSLIM FFFFFFFF RUNNING AN PJ04548 TRAP WHEN PRINTING TO STOPPED SERVER FROM COMMMGR PJ04553 CRITICAL MEMORY CORRUPTION IN PMWIN.DLL PJ04567 RACE CONDIITION WITHIN WPSH DURING BOOT. PJ04572 RUNNING SYSINI SAMPLE FROM REFERENCE CAUSES SWAPPER TO G PJ04583 SHELL HITS INT3 TRAP BECAUSE SYSTEM IS TRASHED PJ04596 FOCUS IS RETURNED TO DESKTOP FOLDER INSTEAD OF THE USER' PJ04600 STARTING SESSIONS (VDM ONLY?) IGNORES MINFEE IN CONFIG.S PJ04615 WINSETPRESPARAM NOT SETTING BACKGROUND COLOR OF SOME CON PJ04662 SWITCHING TO A DOS APPLICATION CAUSES THE SYSTEM TO HANG PJ04680 PICVIEW'S PRINT FUNCTION FAILS USING HP7595A PRINTER DRI PJ04694 COMMAND.COM DOES NOT SUPPORT UNC WITH LONG SERVER NAMES PJ04695 SOME DOS APPS WHICH RAN UNDER .304E ARE NOT ACCEPTING KE PJ04696 IN A FOLDER'S SETTINGS NOTEBOOK, INCLUDE PAGE 2, FILE SY PJ04711 MOD-70: CUSTOM SOFWTARE NOT WORKING WITH OS2SC I.DMD DRI PJ04713 SETBOOT /IBD:C LOCKS SYSTEM UP ON C/I/D INSTALL (LAN PJ04730 CLASS OBJECTS CAN BE UNLOADED MULTIPLE TIMES CAUSING A PJ04736 MODE COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZING 16550 UART PJ04808 DIR /P IN OS/2 FS CAUSES SYSTEM HUNG WITH RUNNING KWIKIN PJ04835 BOLD TEXT BECOMES UNBOLD AFTER ADDING PAGES TO NOTEBOOK- PJ04836 PROBLEM ADDING PAGES TO SETTINGS NOTEBOOK USING METHOD W PJ04904 MOUSE LOSES SYNC ON TOSHIBA LABTOP CONNECTED TO DESKSTAT PJ04920 STACK PTR CORRUPTED WHEN COMPILE WITH 64K STACK PJ04930 TRAP D - DEM_FFHACK - BUFFER OVERRUN PJ04942 WINSETCP ALLOCATES 4K MEMORY AND DOES NOT FREE IT. PJ04968 PANASONIC PRINTERS, FOOTERS PRINT ON NEXT PAGE PJ05032 WINCREATEOBJECT OR WINSETOBJECTDATA ON AN OPEN OBJ HANGS PJ05052 2.0'S MENUING SYSTEM NOT CONSISTENT WITH 1.3'S PJ05090 DOUBLE CLICK ON ENTRY FIELD NOT WORKING IN 2.0 PJ05097 DISABLED MENU ITEM WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED DYNAMICALLY TURN PJ05147 IBM1FLPY1.ADD FIXES PJ05160 DOS AP LOTUS 123 3.1 ABENDS WITH OS2KRNL AFTER GA. PJ05162 LOADER IS NOT INITIALIZING UNINITIALIZED GLOBAL DATA TO PJ05177 RC COMPILER DOES NOT SUPPORT HPFS TYPE FILE NAMES IN RCI PJ05179 TRAPD WHILE ACCESSING QUERYFKADISPLAYDETAILS ROUTINE IN PJ05187 16 BIT PROGRAM GIVES INCORRECT REGISTER CONTENTS ON TRAP PJ05189 TRAP WHEN MANY MONITOR OPEN/CLOSES PJ05191 LANDP/2 HANGS AFTER DOSMONWRITE/DOSMONCLOSE KBD$ PJ05214 AUTOSCROLL DOESN'T WORK IN RIGHT-JUSTIFIED ENTRY-FIELD C PJ05215 DOS APP WRITIT CORRUPTS HPFS SYSTEM ONLY. PJ05226 DRAG/DROP TO PRINT-OBJECT INCORRECT DUE TO CYCHAR IN SHP PJ05232 CALCULATOR LEAVES PM KEYBOARD HOSED. PJ05247 COM.SYS/VCOM.SYS DO NOT WORK WITH X00.SYS ( FOSSIL) DRIV PJ05290 CORRUPTION WHEN USING WM_QUERYTRACKINFO PJ05292 BP REG GETS TRASHED WHEN A WM_TRASLATEACCEL IS SENT PJ05310 MS WORD 4 FRENCH VERSION, MOUSE PTR NOT ERASED PROPERLY PJ05318 CHILD PROCESS REMAINS IN TASKLIST AFTER PARENT/CHILD ARE PJ05354 FSFILTER.SYS PREVENTS TSR FROM LOADING IN UMB PJ05370 SESSION MGR HANGS DURING SCREEN GROUP SWITCH PJ05411 WORKPLACE PRINT OBJECT HANGS DESKTOP!! (WHAT A HEADLINE) PJ05433 QUECALLS LOOPING IN Q_EMPTY PJ05476 WRONG MEMORY FREED ON ERROR PATH IN LDRALLOCSEGMENTS PJ05480 SEMAPHORE HANDLE GETS CORRUPTED SYSTEM DEADLOCKED PJ05506 UNABLE TO SHOW HIDDEN OBJECT WHEN USING WINSETOBJECTDATA PJ05511 32 BIT CALL HOOKS DO NOT WORK PJ05630 WINDOWS HAVE BORDER CUT OFF AT TOP (TEXT EDIT FIELD, DLG PJ05655 KEYBOARD BEEPS AND KEYS NOT DISPLAYED IN APP W/MONITORS PJ05731 INT66H SUPPORT IN VCOM BREAKS WITH VHDQUERYLIN PJ05802 USING ECHO WITHIN NMAKE AND USING A TEMP VARIABLE IS INC