[Vms.sig-hu] Fwd: OpenVMS Update - ok for external

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A 10 évesVMS uptime miatt küldöm elsősorban. FZs



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Dátum: 2007. ápr. 11. Szerda 06:56:36Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>Tárgy: OpenVMS Update - ok for external Melléklet:

Dear Distribution lists,

Here is a brief OpenVMS Update for you since I will be away on business
until April 23rd. It may be brief but we have some very cool
information. If you have a few minutes to spare can you check out the
VMS Audio casts on www.openvms.org and provide feedback, this is a
second request. Many thanks to the ten folks that responded to the
first request.

On Friday this week the Dutch Police will be celebrating a 10 year
anniversary of their VMS Cluster, if you would like to send a note here
is their contact information
http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=03/11/28/7758863

If you will be at German DECUS next week I look forward to seeing you
there.

Warm Regards,

Sue 


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GREAT NEWS

Major bank deploys OpenVMS Utility Pricing
The ability to pay for only the actual CPU cycles consumed is made
possible with HP Instant Capacity (iCAP), which was delivered with
OpenVMS 8.3 Integrity. As with all new technologies these concepts take
some time to assimilate and understand within a customer's environment,
especially one running business critical applications on OpenVMS.
However, a major bank has become the first OpenVMS customer to order
iCAP and Temporary iCAP licenses (TiCAP) to reduce the cost-of-ownership
of Montecito based CPUs, and to be able to respond instantly to
increased demand precisely when needed. 

A similar capability also exists for OpenVMS Leased systems called Pay
per use - PPU.
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Index
1.0 Boot Camp Update
2.0 From VMS Engineering
HP OPC TRANSPORT T1.0 FOR OPENVMS INTEGRITY SERVERS
HP COBOL V2.9 field test
3.0 From our Partners - Parsec
4.0 Sue's Fav's
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1.0 OpenVMS Advanced Technical Boot Camp Update and notes
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/symposium/index.html

Please register as soon as possible and make your hotel reservations.
The hotel room rate is only good until April 30 after that time the
price will increase. 

In the next week you will see a more refined agenda and a new session by
Andy Goldstein has been added - Secure Privileged Subsystems. Soon the
abstract and bio's will be connected to all the sessions as well.
Please take the time to look at the sessions the blocks have several
different speakers.

Week of May 14 (Open to boot camp attendees only and you need to send
mail ASAP if you are interested in attending the sessions are very full)

Alpha Crash Dump Analysis - Monday to Friday 
Porting Workshop Wed-Friday
TCP/IP Banquet Thursday and Friday - two seats left

Scholarships from HP need to be submitted by April 23rd, (see last weeks
VMS Update for more information or send me mail)
2 for folks under 30
2 for folks willing to do VMS Integrity
1 hardship 

Scholarship from Partners (only two so far) check www.openvms.org for
details
1 From Tdi 
1 From Bruden 

Registration
7 Scholarships
84 folks registered
91 seats committed
109 seats available


Countries Represented
Austria - 1
Belgium - 2
Canada - 3
England - 4
Germany - 8
Greece - 1
Hungary - 1
Ireland - 1
Netherlands -5
Sweden - 9
Switzerland - 2
USA - 47
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2.0 From VMS Engineering

2.1 HP OPC TRANSPORT T1.0 FOR OPENVMS INTEGRITY SERVERS

HP OpenVMS Engineering is pleased to announce the field test release of
OPC Transport T1.0 for OpenVMS Integrity servers. The field test kit
and documentation are now available from the HP OPC Transport web site
at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/opc/index.html .

HP OPC Transport T1.0 is available on the OpenVMS Integrity server
platform only. Its use is intended for OLE for Process Control (OPC)
environments and is a subset of COM. Only unauthenticated COM is
supported.

Refer to the "Installation Guide and Release Notes" document for product
prerequisites. This guide also describes how to install and configure
HP OPC Transport for OpenVMS Integrity servers.

Problem reports and any issues that you experience with the OPC
Transport field test kit can be reported to the openvms.ebusiness at hp.com
email address.

Thank you for participating in the OPC Transport field test. 

2.2 HP COBOL V2.9 field test

HP are seeking field test sites for the next version of HP COBOL for
OpenVMS Alpha and I64. 
Here is the request from John Reagan: 

"Dear Friends-of-COBOL (I know you are out there), we are getting ready
for V2.9 of COBOL for OpenVMS I64 and OpenVMS Alpha. We are looking for
a few sites to help us test. 

V2.9 contains only bug fixes, no new functionality (well, we may sneak a
/VERSION qualifier on the compiler) is planned. 

Bug fixes include: 
- On I64 only, very large COBOL applications (ie, LOTS of modules,
HUNDRED OF THOUSANDS of lines), may not link due to way the COBOL
compiler kept asking the linker for various address constants. The sheer
number of address constants would overflow the size of the short
section. If you have this problem, you already know about it. The linker
will just refuse to link you application. We have modified the compiler
to generate code that needs fewer linker-generated address constants. 
- The COBOL front-end lied to the code-generator about the alignment of
fields in records. The front-end got the offset correct, but told GEM
the wrong alignment (normally, GEM can figure out the alignment from the
offset, but COBOL is different... you don't wanna know...). GEM believed
the front-end and would generate code based on the alignment knowledge.
That resulted on TONS of alignment faults. On I64, that really hurts. On
Alpha, not so much. We've fixed the front-end to compute the correct
alignment information. I64 users in particular may see large performance
increases. Alpha users might see improvement as well. 
- A few other bug fixes for things like Kanji currency symbols and other
strange things. 

So if you can get a new kit from us and recompile/retest your COBOL code
to make sure we didn't, er, ah, screw up. So send me email
(firstname.lastname @ hp.com) and we can talk." 

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3.0 From our Partners - Parsec


PARSEC Group has created some pages on our website listing some 
undocumented OpenVMS features. This is a consolidation of information we

have run across over the years. Some of the features are listed on other

sites, some we have not been able to find anywhere else. For some 
interesting reading, go to 
http://www.parsec.com/openvms/undocumented.php. If anyone has additional

information on some undocumented features, there is a link at the bottom

of the page to send it to us. We will verify the information and 
consider adding it to the list.

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4.0 Sue's Fav's

This is very important and should be bookmarked
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/new/events.html this is an ongoing list of
events where VMS will be.







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