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

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Dátum: 2009. március 5., csütörtök, 23:47:06
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>

Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>

Tárgy: OpenVMS Update - Ok for external 


 Dear OpenVMS Community, It is my pleasure to provide you with this information please feel free to forward. As always this is not a newsletter it is an email between friends, so thank you very much for your input.  I am trying to develop my personal network on Linked-inhttp://www.linkedin.com/connections?trk=  you will find many folks you know on this site.  If you have time to connect I would appreciate it.  Thank you for being the best community there is. I value your support and loyalty. I will be on vacation next week but I look forward to talking to you when I get back. Warm Regards as always, Sue Skonetski  _________________________________________ Time Sensitive World Wide - OpenVMS Blade Management Webcast Date: 19 March 2009
Time: 4:00pm GMT/11:00am ET/10:00am CT
Speakers: Barry Kierstein, John Shortt, Leo DemersInformation - http://www.connect-community.org/Events/Webcasts/OpenVMSBladeManagementWebcast/tabid/216/Default.aspxRegistration â013 https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/369456487 This web cast is part of a series around HPâ019s Blade offering.  Last month we had an excellent talk around HPâ019s Linux offering and 308 people registered.  I would like to get more than that for the VMS web cast.  Next month is the UX Blades offering which can also be found on the same site.  Germany March 19 OpenVMS Spring Meeting on March 19th, at HP in Bad Homburg, Germany. www.connect-community.de/Events/OpenVMS2009  World Wide Date June 15-18Where â013 Las Vegas, NevadaInformation - http://www.connect-community.org/Events/HPTechnologyForumExpo2009/tabid/208/Default.aspx  If you are a member of Connect you get a discount on attendance at HPTF.  I have been talking to a few folks I know that Keith Parris is doing a seminar on Monday, he is excellent.   Call for participation for the June issue of the OpenVMS Technical Journal is now open please visit http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/cfp.htmlSpeaking of the OpenVMS Technical Journal â013 The January issue year to date has received 7,666 views. People are obviously interested in the topics covered ___________  From OpenVMS Engineering HP Archive Backup System for OpenVMS, Version 4.5HP is very pleased to announce the availability of the HP Archive Backup System (ABS) for OpenVMS, Version 4.5, on both the Integrity servers and the AlphaServer systems. With this release of ABS V4.5, we bring to you its latest feature, Software Encryption with Key Management.ABS now supports both Software and Hardware Encryption. The Software Encryption feature is an extension of the encryption facility (using AES and DES cryptographic algorithms) already available in the OpenVMS Version 8.3 Backup Utility. In addition, both Manual and Automatic Key Management for software encryption will be provided. ABS supports hardware drive-level encryption by supporting the LTO4 drives that belong to both the Enterprise Class and Business Class tape libraries, but they MUST be used in association with the corresponding key management device (SKM or MSL LTO-4 Encryption kit). ABS supports an LTO4 drive in an EML/ESL library (hardware encryption) and also the Secure Key Manager (SKM) which performs the key management for these enterprise class libraries. ABS V4.5 also has been qualified with the latest MSL LTO-4 encryption kit that provides key management functionality for LTO-4 drives in an MSL G3 library (business class libraries).For more information please look at the links below.ABSpage: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/storage/abspage.html Key features of ABS V4.5: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/storage/hp_archive_backup_sys_v4_5.pdf FAQ on ABS Version 4.5 with Encryption: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/storage/hp_archive_backup_sys_v4_5.pdf More from HP OpenVMS SPD Web site http://h30266.www3.hp.com/OSDocumentation.shtml   CHANGES to the HP-UX and OpenVMS software Trade-in program taking effect July 31 http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/practices.html http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/alpha_retaintrust/business_practices.html Here is the internal notice that is posted on the BCS Software Trade-in Policies page: http://intranet.hp.com/tsg/WW2/BCS/Pages/software_trading.aspx  http://h10076.www1.hp.com/education/openvms.htm - OpenVMS Interactive training  Sue's Favâ019s www.openvms.org has a newsletter which sends you email with updates regarding articles on the site; http://mail.openvms.org:8100/Lists/news/Message/84.htmlDid you know that OpenVMS.org has a dba site and a dcl site.  One of my favorite links is golden eggs.  Matti does the work for Golden Eggs, he is in Finland and does really beautiful work.  http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=GoldenEggs .  Take five minutes to look at this and I promise it is worth it is like art.  As a reminder this site is only alive because of you.    This is important.  Andre our friend and ex Ambassador is looking for a new job in Australia and this web site tallyâ019s a vote for him as a grounds keeperhttp://www.islandreefjob.com/#/most-recent/watch/njLmBpJYnFc?ob=creation_date&desc=1&c=GB&as=25&s=180  This sounds like a cool and unusual VMS job â013 (the url may wrap) http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/827372/enterprise-systems-and-networks?RSSSearch=52425988&gusrc=gu_jobs_box_Education&link=Education_jbx_vac  VMS seen in a great place, thanks Colinhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/3322623488/in/set-72157614673187700/  Don't push the dinosaurs toward extinction; work on evolution - Thanks to John B http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Jurassic-Programmers-.aspx  So this is a blog on uptime Linux vs. Windows, you will like this - Thanks to John A.http://qualapps.blogspot.com/2009/03/linux-vs-windows-uptime.html  If you are not familiar with Bill Highlyman's Availability Digest here is the URL, this is a great read in my opinion http://www.availabilitydigest.com/  New learning site http://www.ccsscorp.com currently offer three, free, self-paced courses on the OpenVMS Operating System  Now available Artistic style 1.23 Details at: <http://www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=09/02/22/4561239> or <http://www.eight-cubed.com/blog/archives/001125.html> check this site out for additional information as well.  Here is a web site for HP Alumni - http://www.hpalumnipedia.com/wiki/The_HPAlumnipedia  you do need to join  OpenVMS Partners  http://www.webnewswire.com/node/448836 Stromasys SA, Geneva and its Subsidiary Stromasys Asia Pacific, Hong Kong expands its APAC Operations Stromasys S A, a Geneva, Switzerland based software company specializing in Cross Platform Virtualization solutions, today announced their entry into the Indian Market with the appointment of its Chief Representative for their India Operations as part of its Subsidiary, Stromasys Asia Pacific Ltd. It will serve as a foothold for Stromasys SAâ019s sales and operations in the fast-growing Asia Pacific market, targeting enterprises that are running VAX and Alpha systems. These hardware systems were developed in the 1980â019s, and had unprecedented performance, as well as an advance operating system, OpenVMS, that is far superior to todayâ019s operating systems. â01CThe market for Cross-Platform Virtualization solutions in the Asia-Pacific region is experiencing phenomenal growth,â01D said Dr. Robert Boers, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Stromasys SA. â01CHaving a more direct country specific presence in the region will allow us to serve customers better and achieve further business growth. Our leading-edge solutions give our clients a seamless binary-migration from aging VAX or Alpha hardware platforms to newer, faster and more energy efficient industry standard servers, while preserving the clientâ019s legacy application investments across hardware generation; all this, without major changes or costly software migration and delay to the clientâ019s business productivityâ01D, he added.Venkat Sundaram will be responsible for managing the overall business and operations in India. He joins Stromasys with over 30 years of IT industry experience and a successful track record in Sales, Customer Services, Networks, Software and IT Infrastructure Program Management in India, USA and Malaysia.â01CThe appointment of Country-specific representatives in the Asia-Pacific Region, with only 5% of End -of-Life VAX and Alpha systemsâ019 users in this region having adopted the solution, we believe there is plenty of potential for Stromasys to grow. We will exploit the technical expertise of the total region to consolidate our growthâ01D, said Tony Leung, President of the APAC Region. On the occasion Venkat Sundaram said â01CCross Platform Virtualization solutions have ample market potential since there are many companies, Government of India Agencies, Public Sectors throughout India still running mission critical applications on older VAX and Alpha Systems where the underlying hardware is now End-of-Life (EOL) and simply needs to be replacedâ01DHe further added â01CWith our unique solutions, these companies can now alleviate the problems of hardware obsolescence and greatly reduce their service, maintenance and operational cost of these aging systems, while directly benefiting from the performance gains of newer and faster processors, memory, storage servers and networks that come automatically with the new industry standards platformsâ01D.  Oracle Oracle Rdb Release 7.2.3.4 Now Available We are pleased to announce the release of Oracle Rdb Release     7.2.3.4 (aka V7.2-34).  The kit is available on MetaLink as     patch set numbers 8259764 (Itanium kit), 8259774 (Alpha     Optimized kit) and 8259739 (Alpha kit) and will be on OTN     shortly.      Software Errors Fixed in Oracle Rdb Release 7.2.3.4     ---------------------------------------------------      Software Errors Fixed That Apply to All Interfaces       - Single Byte String Comparison With Some Relational Operators         Returns Different Result on Itanium       - Wrong Results Queries When Using DISTINCT       - Potential System Crash Using LARGE MEMORY IS ENABLED or         SHARED MEMORY IS SYSTEM on Itanium       - Bugcheck from Nested GROUP BY Query with OR Predicate       - Sort Query Returns Incorrect Data       - Wrong Result from Query with UNION and OR Predicates     SQL Errors Fixed       - Unexpected Data Type Restrictions for Some SQL Operations       - Unexpected Bugcheck from DECLARE Cursor Through Dynamic SQL       - Unexpected INVQUAL Error When Using DCL SET PROCESS/PARSE_style         Qualifier       - Improved Diagnostics for INVVALLIS Error  Migration Specialties Alpha Emulator web site http://www.migrationspecialties.com/VAXAlphaEmulator.html Virtual VAX & Alpha Emulator Development
Progress Report: VL Milestone
March 3, 2009

Migration Specialties is pleased to announce we have reached a key project milestone ahead of schedule.  We have completed development of the emulator environment Virtualization Layer, or VL.

The VL supports everything not directly related to the bits, bytes and registers of the emulated hardware. The VL achieves this in a number of ways: 

ˇ         Hiding the differing characteristics of host operating systems and hardware platforms from the rest of the emulator. This allows the same code to run on OpenVMS and Windows without having to bother about different ways to do threading or hardware access.

ˇ         Integrating emulator components that deal with user or host machine interaction.  For example, VL communications ports provide the ability to communicate through a telnet session or a physical serial port. This way, this functionality can be shared by any emulated communications port without requiring additional effort, simplifying the emulation environment and providing a more consistent user experience.

ˇ         Providing a flexible network infrastructure for emulated network cards.

ˇ         Integrating a sophisticated control program that allows a single instance of the emulator to support multiple virtual machines. These machines can be of the same or differing types.

ˇ         Providing an extremely flexible method to define hardware configurations in a hierarchical manner, allowing every hardware component to be fully configurable.

Development is now focused on a core Alpha processor that will allow us to generate different emulated Alpha processors (e.g. EV4, EV5) to support different Alpha platforms.


     

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