Table of Contents
1.0 Time Sensitive:
1.1 HEADS UP!! NOVEMBER 20th NEXT in the Connect/HP Blades Web Cast
1.2 Sharp Insights, A series of Webinars on HP Blade Technology Schedule
1.3 November 14-15 HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas
1.4 November 11-14 ISE is exhibiting at the Fall 2008 SNUG Conference
1.5 November 19-20 HP Dutchworld
1.6 HP Technical On Line Seminars
2.0 From the HP OpenVMS Team
2.1 January 2009 OpenVMS Technical Journal
3.0 From Connect YOUR World Wide Organization
3.1 Hertz Rental Car
3.2 Connect SIGs
3.3 Connect Chapters
4.0 Sue's Fav's
4.1 OpenVMS TUDs
4.2 OpenVMS Days in Russia
4.3 Award winning OpenVMS Author
4.4 HP-CAST 11
4.5 Have VAX will travel
5.0 From our Partners
5.1 eCube Systems brings Eclipse remote development to OpenVMS with NXTware Remote
5.2 ISE is exhibiting at the Fall 2008 SNUG Conference
5.3 Maklee Engineering heavily involved in customer forums during November
5.4 PARSEC expands list of Undocumented Features
5.5 PointSecure is giving you the gift of time
5.6 Free from ISE EnterpriseSCHEDULE 45 day evaluation
5.7 Now available from Salem Automation CHARON Alpha 6/500 EV6 virtualization product
5.8 Contact ISE for a free 45 day Evaluation - EnterpriseBACKUP
6.0 Partner Press Release
6.1 MVP Systems Software Announces Free JAMS for OpenVMS License
6.2 Salem Automation shipped it's first license of the VMS based ABNet license
7.0 Jobs Syracuse NY
8.0 OpenVMS in the Press
There are about 10 press mentions
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1.0 Time Sensitive:
1.1 HEADS UP!! NOVEMBER 20th NEXT in the Connect/HP Blades Web Cast Series This
series of web casts is called
"Sharp Insights, A series of Webinars on HP Blade Technology”
November we will be covering HP NonStop Blades
HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
November 24 2008, 6:00 p.m. GMT
Mittal Parekh, HP NonStop Product Manager
You need to register to register for these web casts. We will be having a blades
web cast one a month through
June. Please make sure everyone that is interested knows.
http://www.connect-community.org/Events/Webcasts/ HPIntegrityNonStopBladeSystemWebcast/tabid/194/Default.aspx
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1.2 Sharp Insights, A series of Webinars on HP Blade Technology Schedule
October 2008 - HP's Mission Critical Blades - Martin Fink - Oct 8, 2008 (done)
please visit the following location
for the slides and recording of this web cast.
http://www.connect-community.org/Events/PastEvents/tabid/81/Default.aspx*November 24th 2008 - HP Non-Stop Blades by Mittal Parekh
*December 2008 - Holidays no call scheduled
*January 2009 HP HP UX Blades
*February 2009 HP Linux Blades
*March 2009 HP's OpenVMS Blades
*April 2009 HP Storageworks Blades
*May HP Blades using Windows
*June Customer Experiences Using HP Blades
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1.3 November 14-15 HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas (November 14-15, 2008) - See Sue's
Fav's for details New Tutorials: FOCUS
on Accelerators, MultiCore, Containers and Clouds
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1.4 November 11-14 ISE is exhibiting at the Fall 2008 SNUG Conference in Richmond
Virginia on November 11-14. The event
is a great opportunity for GE Healthcare users to meet ISE staff and discuss the
potential of integrating your software
with the premiere Job Scheduling software for OpenVMS and AIX. In addition to the
standard SNUG agenda items such as GE
enhancement updates and member presentations, you will be provided with an overview
session of the exciting things happening
at the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers
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1.5 November 19-20 HP Dutchworld
http://www.hp.nl/dutchworld/ Nov, 19/20, Nieuwegein,
the Netherlands with 1.5 day of
OpenVMS-news.
On November, 19, an evening program with 2 parallel-tracks, and on Nov, 20, a complete
day with OpenVMS.
Program and registration on
http://www.outsmartthefuture.nl/inschrijven/WorkshopsInformation:
gerrit.woertman@hp.com ***************************
1.6 HP Technical On Line Seminars
This is for fee training
the courses are fee-based and require an HP Proactive Support contract to attend. If you
are interested in a topic click
on it and it will route you to the details
http://www.hp.com/hps/tos/ ===========================================================================
2.0 From the HP OpenVMS Team
2.1 January 2009 OpenVMS Technical Journal
We will be doing an OpenVMS Technical Journal in January. If you would like to submit an
article you need to submit an
abstract
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/cfp.html and I will send you the template.
Articles need to be submitted
in the template by December 15 for publication in January.
If you did an article for June and would like to include it for the January issue please let
me know.
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3.0 From Connect YOUR World Wide Organization
3.1 Hertz Rental Car - So I read this article (blog) from Richard Buckle about Hertz, Hertz
the Rental Car agency. Richard
and Hertz are NonStop folks and I came to the conclusion that I really love the passion of
people that are committed to quality
and appreciate it when they see it. And, as in Richard's case are willing to get involved,
which is really what user groups all
about - I think you might like this as well.
http://itug-connection.blogspot.com/2008/10/reserve-some-whoa.html let me know what you think,
there are other topics on the right
nav bar
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3.2 Connect SIGs - If you want to be part of a Connect Special Interest group (SIG) here is the
list of available SIG's
http://www.connect-community.org/SIGs/tabid/64/Default.aspx===========
3.3 Connect Chapters
Chapters - Local organizations (State/Country) visit this site, this has a list of ; Connect
Chapters, Former Encompass Chapters,
International Encompass Affiliates, Former ITUG RUGs, Former HP-Interex EMEA Chapters
http://www.connect-community.org/Chapters/tabid/63/Default.aspx ___________________________________________________
4.0 Sue's Fav's
4.1 OpenVMS TUDs - In September we did OpenVMS Technical Update Days (TUD's) in Europe. In Paris,
Gaitan D. had an interview and
then three more journalists picked up stories about VMS
Original story
http://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/entretiens/lire-gaitan-d-antoni-directeur-technique- isit
http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com. Publicity contact:
www.ReaderViews.com.
Review copies available upon request.
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4.4 HP-CAST 11
HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas (November 14-15, 2008) This is not a VMS specific event it is High
Performance and Scientific Computing
but I heard about it on a conference call and it sounded like something you might enjoy.
Subject: Invitation to attend HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas (November 14-15, 2008) - New Tutorials:
FOCUS on Accelerators, MultiCore,
Containers and Clouds - See Updated Agenda
On behalf of HP and the HP-CAST Board I would like to invite you to attend the 11th world-wide HPC
Users Group meeting, to be held in
Austin, Texas, November, 14-15, 2008. The HP-CAST meeting which is for all HP HPC customers and partners
worldwide, this being the first
time the event is to be held in Austin, right before the world-wide Supercomputer Conference SC'08 in
Austin, November 16-20. The tutorial
and collaboration part of HP-CAST 11 will start Friday, the 14th, 8:30 and close with a gala-dinner at
19:00 (7:00 pm). The HP-CAST
conference will take place on Saturday from (8:15 until 18:00). The conference will be complemented by
deE
Now this is from the OpenVMS Ambassadors in Russia (that is one of them in the picture)
For your collection of 'OpenVMS in press'
http://www.osp.ru/news/articles/2008/42/5573591/ that is from one of the journalists visited our Russian OpenVMS Day (Oct 16).
The article's title says 'Thirty years and three platforms'.
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4.3 Award winning OpenVMS Author
One of our VMS Champions is an award winning Author read all about it
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1541474.htmAward Winning Book Promotes Internet-Free Service Oriented Architecture
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture" (ISBN 9780977086665, Logikal
Solutions, 2008) can be purchased
through local and online bookstores. For more information,
visit
http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com.
Publicity contact:
www.ReaderViews.com.
Review copies available upon request.
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4.4 HP-CAST 11
HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas (November 14-15, 2008) This is not a VMS specific event it is High
Performance and Scientific Computing
but I heard about it on a conference call and it sounded like something you might enjoy.
Subject: Invitation to attend HP-CAST 11 in Austin, Texas (November 14-15, 2008) - New Tutorials:
FOCUS on Accelerators, MultiCore,
Containers and Clouds - See Updated Agenda
On behalf of HP and the HP-CAST Board I would like to invite you to attend the 11th world-wide HPC
Users Group meeting, to be held in
Austin, Texas, November, 14-15, 2008. The HP-CAST meeting which is for all HP HPC customers and
partners worldwide, this being the first
time the event is to be held in Austin, right before the world-wide Supercomputer Conference SC'08 in
Austin, November 16-20. The tutorial
and collaboration part of HP-CAST 11 will start Friday, the 14th, 8:30 and close with a gala-dinner at
19:00 (7:00 pm). The HP-CAST
conference will take place on Saturday from (8:15 until 18:00). The conference will be complemented by
deep-dive tutorials/workshops on
Friday morning, November 14th and Collaboration (CCN) meetings and Special Interest Groups (SIG) on Friday
afternoon.
http://h20311.www2.hp.com/HPC/cache/277925-0-0-0-121.html?jumpid=go/hpcast ***********************************************************
4.5 Have VAX will travel
This is funny an on line travel agency
http://www.vaxvacationaccess.com/ ==========================================================================
5.0 From our Partners
5.1 eCube Systems
eCube Systems, a leader in legacy systems evolution, brings Eclipse remote development to OpenVMS with
NXTware Remote.
NXTware Remote combines an Eclipse plug-in with a remote server execution component to bring remote
Eclipse development to OpenVMS.
Now any developer can be productive on OpenVMS without specialized training using the Eclipse IDE.
With NXTware Remote, teams of developers can edit code on local workstations running Eclipse -- then
deploy, compile and debug on a
remote OpenVMS server without the use of FTP or ANT scripts. Additionally, it can be configured to easily
integrate with a variety of source code management systems.
NXTware Remote fully supports all aspects of Java Eclipse development including Web Services. Soon to be
released versions of NXTware
Remote will support development in Basic, COBOL and C/C++, as well as legacy middleware and many other
remote hardware platforms.
NXTware Remote is the industry’s first Eclipse remote development solution specifically designed for HP
OpenVMS running on HP Integrity
and Alpha servers.
See NXTware Remote at HP's Community Connect Europe November 10-12 in Mannheim, Germany. (Booth #47)
Sign up for a sneak peak of NXTware Remote at our Web site:
http://www.ecubesystems.com/sneakpeak_openvms.html.
Or contact Peter Marquez ( pmarquez @ ecubesystems.com ) for more information.
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5.2 ISE is exhibiting at the Fall 2008 SNUG Conference
ISE is exhibiting at the Fall 2008 SNUG Conference in Richmond Virginia on November 11-14. The event is
a great opportunity for GE
Healthcare users to meet ISE staff and discuss the potential of integrating your software with the premiere
Job Scheduling software for
OpenVMS and AIX. In addition to the standard SNUG agenda items such as GE enhancement updates and member
presentations, you will be provided
with an overview session of the exciting things happening at the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation’s
top academic medical centers.
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5.3 Maklee Engineering heavily involved in customer forums during November
Maklee Engineering is excited to announce its participation in the following upcoming events:
· November 10th, Community Connect Europe 2008 in Mannheim, Germany.
· November 11th, Oracle RDB forum in Reading, UK.
· November 24th - 25th, OpenVMS Technical Update Days in Singapore.
Guy Peleg of Maklee Engineering will be speaking about numerous topics including OpenVMS performance, Oracle
performance, alignment faults,
migration from Alpha to Itanium and much more.
To learn more about Maklee Engineering and it various offerings, please visit
www.maklee.com.
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5.4 PARSEC expands list of Undocumented Features
PARSEC Group has continued its expansion of the list of . With 14 pages and over 50 features, you can be sure
to find something that will
help you with your job, improve your chances at the next job interview, or impress others at the next OpenVMS
trivial pursuit game. These
include commands, qualifiers, logical names and more that affect system security, assist in debugging utilities,
or possibly provide insight
into what may be coming in future versions of OpenVMS.
If you remember something you saw in the past on these pages, use the search function on the right of the page
to help find it again.
The Undocumented OpenVMS Features may be found at
http://www.parsec.com/openvms/undocumented.php.
As we have done in the past, the newest
additions to the list are on the first several pages to make them easy to find. If you have any additional
undocumented features you would
like to have considered for inclusion on these pages, you may use the inquiry form referenced at the bottom
of the page, or send email to
experts@parsec.com.
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5.5 PointSecure is giving you the gift of time
POINTSECURE IS GIVING YOU THE GIFT OF TIME!
Tired of spending all your time monitoring your OpenVMS systems, creating audit reports, searching for security
events and worrying about
what might be happening on your OpenVMS systems?
PointSecure's security and auditing solutions can save you time and resources by making it easier to proactively
monitor your OpenVMS systems
for security events, quickly and easily identify security vulnerabilities, create audit and compliance reports,
and proactively respond to
security incidents before they happen.
From now until December 30th, purchase a System Detective & PointAudit bundle and receive a special end
of year discount!
**System Detective - Monitor, audit, and control OpenVMS session activity.
>>>
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http://www.pointsecure.com/products/pointaudit.aspx We also invite you to download these other free OpenVMS security and auditing tools:
*Migration Advisor - Comprehensive reporting to assist with migration planning! >>>
http://www.pointsecure.com/download/download.aspx?product=MigrationAdvisor&s=ssupdate *PatchAnalyzer - Free patch analysis tool for OpenVMS systems!
>>>
http://www.pointsecure.com/download/download.aspx?product=PatchAnalyzer&s=ssupdate *SnapShot - Free security snapshot for OpenVMS systems!
>>>
http://www.pointsecure.com/download/download.aspx?product=SnapShot&s=ssupdate *****************
5.6 Free from ISE EnterpriseSCHEDULE 45 day evaluation
Free 45 day evaluation from ISE - EnterpriseSCHEDULE lets you graphically control, administer and monitor
complex job streams for
OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, Windows NT/2000, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Linux platforms. A heterogeneous distributed
production environment
allows consistency to be maintained throughout a company's enterprise. Graphically define complex job
streams using conditional
parameters such as file and/or resource dependencies and job interdependencies. Advanced workgroup features
allow the fine tuning
of distributed processing across the enterprise.
http://www.i-s-e.com/products/enterpriseschedule/********************
5.7 Now available from Salem Automation CHARON Alpha 6/500 EV6 virtualization product
Salem Automation now has available the new CHARON Alpha 6/500 EV6 virtualization product which runs up
to 2,500 TPS with up to 8 GB
of virtual Alpha memory, on a single processor dual/quad core HP ProLiant server or HP Bladeserver. You
can run multiple copies of
the CHARON Alpha software simultaneously on a multi-core HP server to consolidate servers. Four network
adapters are available to
VMS via the CHARON virtualization at speeds of up to 1 Gigabit. Other Alpha virtualizations are available
in different
price-performance configurations including Tru64 UNIX support.
Disk I/O is considerably faster on this new Alpha virtualization than the
early generation Alphaservers. Additional information can be found at
WWW.CHARONAlpha.com or contact Chuck Graham via email:
cwgraham@SalemAutomation.com or phone at 336-661-0890, ext. 106.
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5.8 Contact ISE for a free 45 day Evaluation - EnterpriseBACKUP makes performing backups and restores
across a heterogeneous network
nearly effortless. Remote systems can be backed up onto the removable media on a central OpenVMS machine.
Likewise, you can manage the
backup of the remote system from a central OpenVMS machine utilizing the remote systems own removable drives.
Either way, maintaining
constant insight into the contents of all your removable disks is a breeze using the central online Media database -
http://www.i-s-e.com/products/enterprisebackup/ ________________________________________________________
6.0 Partner Press Release
6.1 MVP Systems Software Announces Free JAMS for OpenVMS License
28 OCTOBER 2008 – MVP Systems Software, Inc., a leading provider of automation, application, and task scheduling
software, is offering
one FREE JAMS Job Scheduler for OpenVMS license to any new customer through the remainder of 2008. As part of
this program, new customers
will receive a one year maintenance contract which includes all new releases of JAMS as well as technical
support 24 by 7.
As the world’s most powerful and flexible batch job scheduling system, JAMS supports:
Alerting if jobs fail, run too long, hang, etc.
Cross-Platform scheduling, including OpenVMS, Windows, Linux, and UNIX
File and Job Dependency Triggers
Resource-based scheduling to dynamically allocate resources and ensure systems run at peak levels
“In this tough economic climate, organizations are looking to automate as many processes as possible. Budgets
are tight which means that
expenditures are being delayed and projects are being cut altogether,” states Bob Shackleford of MVP. “We are
doing what we can to help IT
organizations be as efficient and flexible as possible.”
With more than 200 OpenVMS customers, MVP remains committed to providing leading-edge batch scheduling solutions
for OpenVMS. JAMS for
OpenVMS is available for VAX, Alpha, and Itanium.
To find out how to receive your free license, please email
Sales@MVPSI.com or call 860 269 3112.
About MVP Systems Software, Inc.
For more than 20 years, MVP Systems, Inc. has provided leading-edge batch job scheduling and automation solutions
to its more than 500+
customers. MVP’s customers include household names like JPMorgan, Boeing, Kaiser Permanente, The Hartford, and the
US Postal Service. MVP’s
solutions are delivered in both traditional software and SaaS models. To learn more, please visit
www.MVPSI.com.
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6.2 Salem Automation shipped it's first license of the VMS based ABNet license
November 4, 2008, Salem Automation shipped it's first license of the VMS based ABNet license. ABNet offers connectivity
from VAX VMS, Alpha
OpenVMS and Integrity OpenVMS servers to all of the supported Allen-Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers including
CompactLogix, ControlLogix,
PLC 5/20-40-80E, SLC 5/05 and ControlLogix DHRIO gateway to SLC 5/04, PLC 5 on Data Highway PLUS. Communications
performance is up to 5 times
faster than the Rockwell Automation Interchange product which ABNet replaces. The CPU loading for ABNet is only 10% of
the previous Rockwell
Interchange product.
ABNet offers support for the Integrity platform, latest versions of OpenVMS and full support for the CompactLogix /
ControlLogix processor lines.
Additional information can be found at
http://www.winvms.com/vms_related_products.htm or contact Chuck Graham via
email:
cwgraham@SalemAutomation.com or phone at 336-661-0890, ext. 106.
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OpenVMS in the Press
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh102708-story05.html - Gartner Outlines the Key IT for 2009 ….
1. Virtualization: And not just server virtualization, which is approaching a decade in production on proprietary
(OPenVMS and i5/OS)
platforms as well as on Unix boxes and which is maturing rapidly on X64 iron, but on storage arrays and client
computers. Virtual desktops
hosted back in the data center and front-ended by thin clients save money on energy, storage, and administration.
Still, Gartner says that
by 2010, fewer than 40 percent of corporate users where a virtual PC is appropriate will be using them. People like
their PCs and laptops
as much as companies like their servers.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/attunity-delivers-new-oracle-teradata/story.aspx?guid= %7B151EE55B-549B-44EC-8A02-578AC2F6C4BD%7D&dist=hppr -
Attunity Delivers New Oracle and Teradata Connectors for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 -
Connectors Enable High-Speed Data Transfer Integrated With SQL Server 2008 Integration Services …. In addition to
the connectors for Microsoft,
Attunity provides standards-based adapters, connectors and change data capture technology for real-time access to
relational and non-relational
data sources and legacy applications. Supported data sources include Adabas, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Oracle Rdb,
RMS, Microsoft SQL Server,
and even CODASYL DBMS and flat files running on a wide range of platforms including mainframe, HP NonStop, UNIX,
AS400, OpenVMS and Windows.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/prnews/20081007/midrange-systems.htm - CONNEX Sollutions, Inc. Joins the Midrange Alliance
Program CONNX Solutions'
flagship product, CONNX, has beenproviding data access, integration and migration solutions on the midrangesystems
for over 16 years. CONNX is
currently addressing the data needs ofthe VAX/Alpha/HP Integrity OpenVMS and other Open systems running on Unix,Linux
and Windows.
%7B368ABD43-314E-49F4-83F0-85B6DFA37D4D%7D&dist=hppr
ActiveBatch(R) Gets The Job Scheduling Position At TheLadders.com -- And Immediately Cuts Nightly Processing Time In
Half Application's Event-Based
Job Triggers Help the #1 Employment Resource For $100,000+ Earners Run Hundreds of Analytical Database Scripts Every
Evening - After conducting a
"job search" of his own, Cohen decided that ActiveBatch(R), from Advanced Systems Concepts, was the best choice.
ActiveBatch is the industry's
leading enterprise job scheduling application for Windows, UNIX, Linux and/or OpenVMS computing environments. Proven
in over 1,000 installs, at
enterprises ranging from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies, ActiveBatch allows jobs and job plans to be triggered by
virtually any kind of event--from
file creation and modification to deletion, system startup, runaway processes, or thousands of other actions
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1299534.htm - Texas Memory Systems Unveils Write Accelerator - Texas Memory
Systems, maker of the
World's Fastest Storage®, today announced a new Write Accelerator specifically designed to increase Oracle database
performance. It accelerates
Oracle databases by allowing them to handle substantially greater transaction volumes and add more concurrent users.
The Write Accelerator writes
with 40 times less latency than the cache of a standard RAID array and is easily integrated into Oracle environments.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/hp_vmware_services/ - HP surprises itself with virtual Exchange servers - As the
volume leader in the
x64 server racket, Hewlett-Packard was an early and enthusiastic supporter of VMware and its ESX Server hype