*** 06.03.2009 ***  2009 OpenVMS NEWS

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-in

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

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Time Sensitive

World Wide - OpenVMS Blade Management Webcast

Information - http://www.connect-community.org/Events/Webcasts/OpenVMSBladeManagementWebcast/tabid/216/Default.aspx Registration –

This web cast is part of a series around HP’s Blade offering. Last month we had an excellent talk around HP’s 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

World Wide

Date June 15-18

Where – Las Vegas, Nevada

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.

Speaking of the OpenVMS Technical Journal – The January issue year to date has received 7,666 views. People are obviously interested in the topics covered

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From OpenVMS Engineering

HP 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.

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:

More from HP

CHANGES to the HP-UX and OpenVMS software Trade-in program taking effect July 31

http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/9000/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

Sue's Fav’s

This is important. Andre our friend and ex Ambassador is looking for a new job in Australia and this web site tally’s a vote for him as a grounds keeper

This sounds like a cool and unusual VMS job – (the url may wrap)

VMS seen in a great place, thanks Colin

So this is a blog on uptime Linux vs. Windows, you will like this - Thanks to John A.

If you are not familiar with Bill Highlyman's Availability Digest here is the URL, this is a great read in my opinion

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.

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 SA’s 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 1980’s, and had unprecedented performance, as well as an advance operating system, OpenVMS, that is far superior to today’s operating systems.

“The market for Cross-Platform Virtualization solutions in the Asia-Pacific region is experiencing phenomenal growth,� said Dr. Robert Boers, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Stromasys SA. “Having 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 client’s legacy application investments across hardware generation; all this, without major changes or costly software migration and delay to the client’s business productivity�, 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.

“The appointment of Country-specific representatives in the Asia-Pacific Region, with only 5% of End -of-Life VAX and Alpha systems’ 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 growth�, said Tony Leung, President of the APAC Region.

On the occasion Venkat Sundaram said “Cross 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 replaced�

He further added “With 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 platforms�.

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

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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

Migration Specialties Alpha Emulator web site http://www.migrationspecialties.com/VAXAlphaEmulator.html