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CONTENTS:
- OPENVMS CLUSTER ACHIEVES 10 YEARS UPTIME
- US DESIGN ANNOUNCES VMS I64 SUPPORT
- PARSEC WEBINAR ON OPENVMS I64 LICENSING
- EMC NETWORKER NOW SUPPORTS VMS I64
- TAPESYS NOW AVAILABLE ON VMS I64
- TIFF 3.8.0 AVAILABLE FOR OPENVMS
- SIMH EMAIL LIST
- HP INTEREX FRANCE
- EUROPEAN HP USER GROUP EVENTS
- ENCOMPASS
- DISTRIBUTED NETBEANS V1.1 NOW AVAILABLE
- OPENVMS IN THE NEWS
- ALTERNATIVE VMS
- NEW PYTHON KIT FOR VMS
- WEBWARE FOR PYTHON RELEASED
- LIBSDL PORTED TO VMS
- CURL 7.15.1 RELEASED FOR OPENVMS
- UPDATED SOFTWARE
- UPDATED HP PAGES
- ECO KITS
- QUICK LINKS
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OPENVMS CLUSTER ACHIEVES 10 YEARS UPTIME
At WVNET there is a OpenVMS cluster has been up since
5-JAN-1996 that is over 10 years .
WVNET is the West Virginia Network, a dynamic service
organization providing telecommunications and computing
services within West Virginia. WVNET was created in 1975
to provide central computing facilities and wide-area
network communications linking its "central site"
computing resources in Morgantown with the campus
computing systems at most of the colleges and universities
throughout the state.
The cluster consists of
- Alpha 4100 (with four 533Mhz CPUs) running VMS 7.3-2
- VAX 6000-630 running VMS 7.3
- four DEC 3000 workstations running VMS 7.3-2
The cluster provices a variety of services:
- Runs the Banner student information system (on Oracle)
for one of the member institutions of higher education.
- Runs multiple Oracle/Banner test databases to support
Banner running on VMS at some of other member
institutions.
- Is the Usenet news server (running DNEWS).
- Is one of the Domain Name (DNS) servers for several
hundred domains.
- Provides DHCP, Bootp, Kerberos and print services
- Hosts the VMS Mosaic web site and ftp server.
As the cluster is running VMS V7.3-2 there must have been
a series of rolling upgrades over the last 10 years. Its a
very impressive system management achievement.
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US DESIGN ANNOUNCES VMS I64 SUPPORT
US Design, a division of Objective Data Storage, has
announced support for the OpenVMS Itanium operating
system. "Integrity" servers that use Intel's Itanium 2
processor. The current release of OSS (version 6.5)
software from US Design supports OpenVMS 8.2 on Magneto
Optical, Ultra Density Optical (UDO), and DVD-RAM.
OSS software provides transparent jukebox operation,
direct network accessibility, and the ability to "look and
operate" like a magnetic disk in an OpenVMS environment.
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PARSEC WEBINAR ON OPENVMS I64 LICENSING
PARSEC Group's free webinar, OpenVMS I64 Licensing, will
be held on Wednesday, January 11 at 12:00 noon MST. During
this webinar licensing in OpenVMS I64 systems will be
described, which differs from licensing in Alpha and VAX.
Key differences that will be discussed include:
* operating environment and testing
* new license type - per processor licenses
* compliance checking and reporting
Register for OpenVMS I64 Licensing at
http://www.parsec.com/general/promotion.php?p=31J5
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EMC NETWORKER NOW SUPPORTS VMS I64
EMC have announced the immediate availability of EMC
NetWorker for OpenVMS Storage Node and Client 6.0.1-D for
Hewlett Packard Integrity servers based on Itanium
processors.
NetWorker's OpenVMS support provides several important
capabilities including:
. Reduce network traffic and improve performance with
NetWorker for OpenVMS Storage Nodes
o Backup and recover via local or SAN-attached tape and
disk libraries
o Dynamically share SAN-attached libraries and drives
. Centrally manage OpenVMS protection within a mixed UNIX,
Windows, Netware
and Linux environment
. Increase administration and operation effectiveness with
automated backup
scheduling, and advanced media management
. Protect OpenVMS clients running in an OpenVMS cluster
To coincide with HP's strategic direction for server
pricing, NetWorker's licensing for support of OpenVMS on
the Itanium platform is based on the number of processors
in the client or Storage Node. The new support is
available via the following NetWorker part numbers that
will appear on the Open Storage
Software price list in Q1 2006
LIC-001680 NetWorker OpenVMS Client for Integrity servers
per Single (one) Processor Qty 1 List Price $1,000
BIC-001680 NetWorker OpenVMS Storage Node for Integrity
servers per Single (one) Processor List Price $3,965
Qty 1 consisting of:
LIC-001680 - NetWorker OpenVMS Client for Integrity
servers per Single (one) Processor Qty 1
LIC-001681 - OpenVMS Storage Node for Integrity servers
per Single (one) Processor Qty 1
Note: This new support IS NOT compatible with the upcoming
EMC NetWorker 7.3 release. Please check the software
compatibility guide for full details on supported
configurations.
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TAPESYS NOW AVAILABLE ON VMS I64
Software Partners, Inc. announced that TAPESYS for HP
OpenVMS is now available on HP Integrity servers based on
the Intel® Itanium® 2 processor.
TAPESYS for OpenVMS provides complete management of all
backups, media rotation, and on-demand file restoration in
the event of loss, deletion or system-wide disaster.
TAPESYS provides ready access to tape content and history,
and includes a thorough vault management component for
sites that store media remotely. It includes JB, an
extensive jukebox management component, as well.
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TIFF 3.8.0 AVAILABLE FOR OPENVMS
Latest version of TIFF 3.8.0 is successfully compiled with
a little modifications and tested on OpenVMS 7.3/VAX and
7.3-1/Alpha by Alexey Chupahin. Not available for Itanium
yet.
Please download from
http://fafner.dyndns.org/~alexey/libsdl/tiff-3_8_0-vms.tar-gz
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Raxco Software
http://www.raxco.com
Raxco Software provides a full line of comprehensive
OpenVMS system utilities for improving system performance
and reducing administration costs. The Performance SuiteTM
is a solution which integrates disk optimization,
caching, dynamic system tuning, and RMS file restructuring
to solve the most common performance problems. And all at
an exceptional value!
RaxcoSupport is a package of software tools that makes
user support on your OpenVMS computer systems more
efficient and more effective.
RaxcoSupport provides the following user support
functions:
. Interactive user assistance
. Troubleshooting
. Dial-in, remote-site support
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SIMH EMAIL LIST
If you run the SIMH hardware emulator then you may be
interested in the SIMH email list. To subscribe or
unsubscribe then visit
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
An archive of previous postings is at
http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/
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HP INTEREX FRANCE
Following the merge of two French User Groups to create a
unified HP-Interex France this summer, the French National
User Group (NUG) has now lunched a few new webpages,
available on the HP-Interex EMEA website. The new web
content includes a calendar of events to be updated on a
regular basis, a NUG subscription form and contacts
details.
http://www.hp-interex.org/site/cms/articleView.asp?article=254
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EUROPEAN HP USER GROUP EVENTS
HP-Interex National User Groups (NUGs) develop regular
activities throughout Europe. These are an opportunity to
meet other users from your own country or region and
discuss HP-related issues from a local perspective and in
your own language.
26 Jan Managing Production Systems, Firefighting and
MOPS - London- hpUG (UK)
15 Feb Unified MessagingInternet Communication - London
-hpUG (UK)
22 Feb OpenVMS Technical Update - Livingston - hpUG (UK)
28 Feb Service Management - Reading - hpUG (UK)
2 Mar Integrating File Systems with SAMBA and NFS -
London - hpUG (UK)
8 Mar NetApps Storage - Reading - hpUG (UK)
14 Mar Fibre Channel Network Management - Reading - hpUG
(UK)
16 Mar HP Server and StorageWorks Product Strategy Update
- Warrington - hpUG (UK)
15-19 May IT-Symposia 2006 - Duesseldorf/Neuss - HP User
Society DECUS (Germany)
For more information
http://www.hp-interex.org/site/cms/eventsnug.htm
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ENCOMPASS
Encompas is the name of the hp user group in various
countries. Some of the groups have web sites
Australia http://www.encompass.asn.au
Canada http://www.canacu.org/
USA http://www.encompassus.org/
If you know of others let me know. In europe the user
groups are gathered together as Interex www.hp-interex.org
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DISTRIBUTED NETBEANS V1.1 NOW AVAILABLE
Distributed NetBeans for OpenVMS allows you to run the
NetBeans IDE on your desktop system and develop
applications on a remote OpenVMS Alpha or Integrity server
system.
Distributed NetBeans contains all of the functionality
provided in NetBeans for OpenVMS plug-in modules: C/C++,
COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL language support, and MMS,
BASH, DCL, CMS, and EDT Keypad support. Distributed
NetBeans supports access to your files and CMS libraries
(including CMS groups) using a built-in FTP filesystem in
addition to Samba for OpenVMS and Advanced Server. The IDE
Server runs on both OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64.
Distributed NetBeans for OpenVMS is different from
NetBeans for OpenVMS and the OpenVMS plug-in modules.
Distributed NetBeans comprises two parts:
* Distributed NetBeans Client for OpenVMS, which is a
plug-in for NetBeans running on your desktop. You install
the NetBeans IDE (from NetBeans.org) and the Distributed
NetBeans Client for OpenVMS on your desktop system.
* IDE Server for OpenVMS, which runs on OpenVMS and
provides remote services for the client plug-in. You
install the IDE Server on your OpenVMS system. (You do not
need to install the NetBeans for OpenVMS IDE or any
additional plug-in modules on your OpenVMS system.)
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OPENVMS IN THE NEWS
Positive mention for OpenVMS on Slashdot
"Thankfully our management felt that our zero downtime in
5 years with PMDF and OpenVMS in general was worth
something and we got to watch as the rest of the Bank have
been plagued with viruses, crashes, and the best, only 2
people on a team may access the workflow system at a time.
"
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172574&cid=14368426
Business Continuity for Small Businesses by Drew Robb
"On September 11th, for example, several financial
services firms situated in and around the World Trade
Center didn't lose a single transaction. Why? Many had
expensive servers running the OpenVMS operating system
with identical gear available at a remote data center."
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3574416
Midrange Unix Servers: HP and Sun Need to Catch IBM by
Timothy Prickett Morgan
"The HP Integrity machines also run OpenVMS and the
NonStop kernel, too."
http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug120805-story01.html
Article from Mass High Tech - The Journal of New England
Technology
- Digital's venerable VMS just keeps going and going and
going
http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?art_id=70713&sec_id=35
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BRUDEN - OpenVMS Training
http://www.bruden.com
DCL Command Procedures Jan 30-Feb 3, 2006
hp OpenVMS Fundamentals Feb 6-10, 2006
Host Based Volume Shadowing (HBVS) Basics and Beyond Feb
21-24, 2006
OpenVMS System Management I Feb 27-Mar 3, 2006
OpenVMS System Management II Mar 6-10, 2006
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ALTERNATIVE VMS
VMS, as you probably realize, has other meanings e.g.
- Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide
- Variable Message Sign
- Virtual Monitoring System
and so on. I particularly like this one - the Voluntary
Milking System (VMS) which apparently gives cows the power
to decide when they want to be milked.
For more fascinating detail see
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/97733
(unfourtunally this VMS runs on liunx)
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NEW PYTHON KIT FOR VMS
A new Python 2.3.5 (V1.42-0) kit is now available for
OpenVMS AXP and IA64.
It include a few bugfix, libraries update and some
optimizations of the Oracle Rdb module.
http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/anonymous/kits/
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WEBWARE FOR PYTHON RELEASED
Webware for Python is a
suite of Python packages and tools for developing
object-oriented, web-based applications.
The suite uses well known design patterns and includes a
fast Application Server, Servlets, Python Server Pages
(PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task
Scheduling, Session Management, and many other features.
Webware is very modular and easily extended.
Webware for Python is well proven and
platform-independent. It is compatible with multiple web
servers, database servers and operating systems.
Webware for Python on OpenVMS can run as a "classical"
multi threaded application server or in a WASD
CGIPlus environment (multi
processes, multi accounts).
A demonstration is available from the Python for VMS
site.
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LIBSDL PORTED TO VMS
Simple DirectMedia Layer (LibSDL) is ported to OpenVMS
Alexey Chupahin has annonced the start of libSDL
(www.libsdl.org) library porting project. LibSDL is a set
of well-known multimedia libraries come from UNIX world.
Now, main library SDL, SDL_Image were finished. Please
visit the project site
http://fafner.dyndns.org/~alexey/libsdl/public.html No
audio support yet, because I have no Microsoft Sound Board
for my DEC 2000 mod. 300 around anywere.
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CURL 7.15.1 RELEASED FOR OPENVMS
The latest version of cURL, 7.15.1, has been released for
OpenVMS and is available for download.
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html#VMS
This is the binary and object library distribution of the
cURL 7.15.1 release. See the readme.vms file in the zip
for usage information. The zip files contain executables
and objects built with OpenSSL, hpSSL and without SSL
support. The files are in architecture specific zips.
The OpenSSL and noSSL versions are self-contained in that
you can run these programs without any other software on
the system. For the hp SSL version, you will need to have
hp's SSL V1.1-B product installed. This version doesn't
support hp's SSL on IA64, since the machine the kit was
compiled on doesn't have it.
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with
URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER,
TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS
certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading,
kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,
user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http
proxy tunneling and other useful things.
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UPDATED SOFTWARE
Fekko (of the team porting OpenOffice to OpenVMS) has
released new versions of his freeware tools dix(4.2) and
fshelp(3.1) and auto(2.1). All tools are now available on
all platforms (vax, alpha and IA64)
http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/dix/
http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/fshelp/
http://www.oooovms.dyndns.org/auto/
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UPDATED HP PAGES
Updated HP OpenVMS Integrity options rollout chart and
added new HP OpenVMS Integrity supported I/O options chart
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/products.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/v8_2_integrity_io_options.html
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/integrity/post_82_options_rollout_web.html
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ECO KITS
VMS732_XFC-V0200
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_XFC-V0200.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_XFC-V0200.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
VMS732_LAT-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_LAT-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_LAT-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
VMS82A_XFC-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/VMS82A_XFC-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/VMS732_XFC-V0200.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
VMS82A_LAT-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/VMS82A_LAT-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/VMS82A_LAT-V0100.PCSI-DCX_AXPEXE
VMS82I_XFC-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2/VMS82I_XFC-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2/VMS82I_XFC-V0100.ZIPEXE
VMS82I_LAT-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2/VMS82I_LAT-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2/VMS82I_LAT-V0100.ZIPEXE
VMS821I_ACRTL-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_ACRTL-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_ACRTL-V0100.ZIPEXE
VMS821I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0100.ZIPEXE
VMS821I_XFC-V0100
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_XFC-V0100.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/VMS821I_XFC-V0100.ZIPEXE
VAXSHAD02_073
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/vax/V7.3/VAXSHAD02_073.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/vax/V7.3/VAXSHAD02_073.A-DCX_VAXEXE
Remember you can sign up to get an email whenever there is
a new VMS patch
http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Alerts
A list of the latest VMS ECO kits is available in the ECO
notes conference on Encompasserve
http://www.encompasserve.org/conferences/ECO_new_1.html
There are master lists of patches for various VMS versions
available without registering via a ftp site
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2/ALPHA_V732_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/ALPHA_V82_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2/I64_V82I_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/I64_V821I_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/vax/V7.3/DEC-VAXVMS-TCPIP_ECO-V0503-184-4.txt
For patches for old versions of VMS then the best site is
still
http://xfer-sno.compaq.com.au/pub/ecoinfo/ecoinfo/top.htm
RSS feeds of patch information are available from
http://www.eight-cubed.com/patches/patches.shtml
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QUICK LINKS
dba.OpenVMS.org - http://dba.openvms.org
dcl.OpenVMS.org - http://dcl.openvms.org
GoldenEggs - http://www.openvms.org/GoldenEggs
hp OpenVMS main site - http://www.hp.com/go/openvms
hp OpenVMS FAQ - http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/faq
hp VMS Freeware http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/freeware
hp DSPP http://www.hp.com/go/dspp
hp itrc VMS forum
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=288
Rich Marcello's Blog
http://devresource.hp.com/blogs/marcello
Stephen "Hoff" Hoffman's blog
http://devresource.hp.com/blogs/hoffman
Duncan Campbell's blog
http://www.hp.com/blogs/campbell
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