*** 16.03.2009 ***  2009 OpenVMS NEWS

CONTENTS:

- Introduction

- VMS Technical Journal V11 is now Available

- WSIT V3.0 now available

- Free OpenVMS Training available online

- EISNER - email service

- HP OpenVMS CIFS Version 1.1 ECO1

- News from the UK National Museum of Computing

- The OpenVMS Consultant: OpenVMS DEBUG: Often underutilized and unappreciated

- Scaling your Oracle environment with Maklee Engineering

- DVDwrite (DVD/CD burning program) for free

- VMS related internet radio

- Largest OpenVMS Freeware archive goes offline

- Migration Specialties Developing Virtual VAX & Alpha Solutions

- Quintara® Version 1.7-1 now available

- HP ABS for OpenVMS V4.5

- Senior Oracle Rdb DBA - Nashua, NH, USA

- OpenVMS Technical Update Day, UK

- EVENTS

- SimH 3.8-1 released

- muCommander 0.8.3 on OpenVMS

- GT.M 5.3-003 released

- Veritas NetBackup 6.5.2a OpenVMS client release update

- MULTINET PATCHES

- NEW ECO KITS

- ECO INFORMATION

- QUICK LINKS

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INTRODUCTION

My request for feedback in the previous edition of this newsletter resulted in messages from seven people, which is better than before but still not good enough.

I changed from all upper case titles to mixed case - did you notice? What do the rest of you think of the newsletter? Should I stick with plain text or move to something prettier?

I'm always interested in more OpenVMS news and your feedback.

Ian

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VMS Technical Journal V11 is now Available

The latest edition of the HP OpenVMS Technical Journal is now available.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/index.html

In this version you will find many articles that will interest you.

From the OpenVMS engineering group, Ajo Jose Panoor, Dick Stockdale, and Anand Ramaswamy have written a great article on LAN troubleshooting techniques. We have an excellent article from Sushruta Nadig in the OpenVMS storage group on Intelligent Scheduling using Fuzzy Logic in applications, Ravi Uppada's article on Alternatives to HP SNA Server, and Rishi Singhal's article on Installing and Configuring a Wiki engine on OpenVMS. We also have an article on Access Restrictions in FTP from Anand Shenoy of OpenVMS TCP/IP engineering.

Also in this edition, you'll find articles from two of our OpenVMS friends. Bruce Claremont has written an article on how to make life easier by using the /RETAIN=ERROR qualifier and Tim Sneddon wrote an article on Calling OpenVMS Native Routines from Java.

HP would appreciate your feedback not only on this issue but the OpenVMS Technical Journal as a whole.

If you would like to submit an article for the next issue http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/cfp.html

For all editions there is a OpenVMS Technical Journal master table of contents.

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WSIT V3.0 now available

HP have announced a new HP-supported, customer release  version of the Web Services Integration Toolkit for  OpenVMS.

The Web Services Integration Toolkit provides a set of  individual tools to significantly help you develop a

JavaBean to expose legacy application logic. These tools are designed to be valuable both individually or in

combination. All of the WSIT tools run on HP OpenVMS.

The Web Services Integration Toolkit for OpenVMS provides tools that help you to:

* Create an XML IDL file on Integrity servers

* Validate the XML IDL file

* Generate components

* Use the generated code

* (Optional) Download BWX2IDL.JAR to allow use of

existing Bridgeworks connections

New features in Version 3.0 include:

* Automatic stack expansion for single threaded

applications. This feature removes the need for the system manager to determine the appropriate maximum stack size

for the thread that executes the application code.

* Support for the generation of sample AXIS2 web

services (not intended for production environments).

* PCSI kit includes an option to install the WSIT

runtime only.

* ANT is no longer bundled with WSIT.

* New application tracing feature is supported

(WSI$APPTRACING).

* New log file generation feature allow out of

process applications to print to a log file (WSI$LOGFILE).

* Documentation for debugging out-of-process features.

* AXIS2 services now have argument names in WSDL.

* WSI$JNISHR_G defined for debug environments.

* Miscellaneous bug fixes.

For more information and to download the kit visit

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Free OpenVMS Training available online

CCSS have made available free web based OpenVMS training.

CCSS currently offer three, free, self-paced courses on

the OpenVMS Operating System. These courses are targeted

at students with a basic knowledge of either Windows or

Unix/Linux who need or want to obtain fundamental

knowledge about the use of OpenVMS either for work, career

or as a hobby interest.

The CCSS Interactive Learning site is available from the

CCSS - Computer Consulting System Services web page:

http://www.ccsscorp.com

Just follow the "Interactive Learning" link...

The current courses are:

* Introduction to OpenVMS

* Introduction to OpenVMS Editors

* Introduction to DCL - Interactive Commands

Free access to online lab systems, VAX and Alpha running OpenVMS are included with the courses.

More courses are in development. Take a look at let them know what you think.

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EISNER - email service

As many of you know, Eisner.Encompasserve.Org has been down for some time now, and it's not clear when the

system, with its notes conferences, etc., will be resurrected.

As a stop-gap measure, to help folk who utilize Eisner email addresses, Bob Tinkelman has configured some mail

servers to provide a mail forwarding facility. There isn't any automated sign-on procedure. If you had a

working Eisner email address and would like to receive any future email sent to that address, send a request Bob

Tinkelman (bob at tink dot com)

Include

* your Eisner username

* the email address to which you want mail forwarded,

* whether you'd like to opt-out from PMAS anti-spam processing, and lastly

* if you want to utilize the PMAS web interface on

the fwd.com systems. More details on PMAS processing: The default is opt-in for PMAS processing, with all mail

either accepted or quarantined. (None is automatically deleted.)

Unless you opt-out of PMAS processing, you will have the option to manage your PMAS config, examine and release

quarantined messages, etc.

With forwading to some target domains (e.g., yahoo.com) you can authenticate using your alias email

address(username@decuserve.org) and the password associated with your pop/imap account on the target

system. With forwarding to other domains (e.g., gmail.com) this doesn't work, and you will need to ask bob to manually

associated a password with your email address on the fwd.com systems. (Either via email or via phone, depending

on how secure you feel.) If you specify that you want to use the PMAS web interface, you will receive email back from Bob letting

you know if a manually-maintained password will be required. More details on DNS and system names:

We believe that things are configured for all the various domains that were, as far as email is concerned, aliases

for each other. These include: decuserve.decus.org 

decuserve.org

encompasserve.com

encompasserve.org

eisner.decus.org

eisner.decuserve.org

eisner.encompasserve.com

eisner.encompasserve.org

For each, DNS contains a primary MXer (mail0.fwd.com) and two secondary MXers (mail1 and mail2.fwd.com).

All run PMDF and PMAS (as a PMDF channel). If you don't respond:

PMDF on the mail*.fwd.com systems is currently configured  to issue temporary rejections, in the smtp dialog, for any

Eisner destinations for which it doesn't have forwarding

info.

Dale Coy

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HP OpenVMS CIFS Version 1.1 ECO1

HP OpenVMS Common Internet File System (CIFS) Version 1.1

ECO1, based on Samba V3.0.28A, is now available.

HP OpenVMS CIFS for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS Integrity

provides users with file and print interoperability

between OpenVMS and Windows-based clients.

The OpenVMS file and print services are based on the

software runs on OpenVMS AlphaServer and OpenVMS Integrity

server platforms.

HP CIFS V1.1 ECO1 for OpenVMS contains additional

features, bug fixes, PDC migration support and

improvements compared to HP CIFS V1.1 for OpenVMS.

The following new features are available in the HP CIFS

V1.1 ECO1 for OpenVMS release:

* CONTROL flag support

* Administrators now allowed to modify the owner of

file/folder by changing the ownership to either a Windows

domain-user/-group or CIFS-user/-group

* Support for reading sequential files with record

formats of Fixed Length, Undefined, as well as files with

Indexed file organization

* Files created in a Stream_LF record format, are now

be controlled by the new SMB.CONF share level parameter

"vms rms format"

* Creation of SMBD process dumps in a specific

directory using the logical SAMBA$PRCDMP

* SMBSTATUS would allow the ability to display node

specific CIFS information by using the option

--nodename=<nodename>

* Support for migration of Advanced Server for

OpenVMS PDC to HP CIFS for OpenVMS using the net rpc vampire utility

* Windows 2008 Server support

HP OpenVMS CIFS Version 1.1 ECO1 Migration Kit is now  available. This kit is used for the migration of data from

HP Advanced Server for OpenVMS (Advanced Server) to the HP OpenVMS Common Internet File System (CIFS) server on the

same node or across two different nodes. Data can be migrated if the Advanced Server is configured as a member

server or as a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) - this is a new feature of this release.

For more information and to download the kits see HP

OpenVMS Common internet File System (CIFS) web site.

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News from the UK National Museum of Computing

* The museum now has a working example of the very rare  Alphabook-1 - the only laptop with an alpha CPU which runs

OpenVMS. This one was kindly donated by Colin Butcher of  XDelta.

* Tickets now available for Pixelh8's concert Obsolete?

This is a very special event - new music and very old  machines. For ticket sales and more information about

these concerts, which are supported by the Performing

Rights Society Foundation, See

http://www.tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/14

* The last two Air Traffic Control workstations from West  Drayton are now restored to working order and are on

display at the museum. More information at

http://www.tnmoc.org/36/section.aspx/48

* Peter's blog is also a good, occasionally off the wall, indication of what's happening at the museum - you can

read the blogs at http://www.tnmoc.org/blog.aspx

* The last few tickets for An Evening with Colossus are still available for February 26th at 7:00 PM - for more

information and details on how to get your tickets

http://www.tnmoc.org/39/section.aspx/5

* Our new web site is almost complete, but we will be updating the content on a regular basis, so please keep

checking the site, especially the news and events sections.

If you can help support the museum, or have suggestions  that may help, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Remember that the museum receives no national funding and no 'gate' income from visitors to Bletchley Park.

There are no paid employees of the museum, as all of the work is performed by volunteers. Support is vital for

the continued success of the museum to cover un-avoidable costs like the rent and utility bills, let alone growing

the number of displays and galleries.

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The OpenVMS Consultant: OpenVMS DEBUG: Often underutilized and unappreciated

The OpenVMS Consultant returns from a hiatus with a multi-pronged series of columns on different aspects of

OpenVMS. The first of these articles is an introductory article on OpenVMS DEBUG.

We are a diverse group. Some IT professionals spend all of their time developing software. Others never even see the

text of a source program, other than a scripting language such as DCL or PERL, outside of a textbook. Still others

are strictly involved in operations and have no interest in programming matters of any stripe.

Going forward, there will be several ongoing threads in this column. One thread will emphasize issues of interest

to developers. Another ongoing thread will be topics of interest to those who write DCL and other scripts on

OpenVMS. Management and operations issues will be a third thread. In addition to these three ongoing threads, other

topics will make appearances.

This column is the first in a series of columns about the capabilities and use of the OpenVMS debugger, DEBUG. The

OpenVMS Documentation set includes an extensive treatment of DEBUG in the "HP OpenVMS Debugger Manual". The manual

is available on the OpenVMS www site in both HTML and PDF versions. DEBUG is one of the fundamental software development tools

on OpenVMS. At its most elemental, DEBUG allows a programmer to interrupt program execution at pre-selected

points in the source program, display and possibly alter variables, and continue execution.

Even this extremely limited use of DEBUG is a quantum leap from inserting and removing "print" statements for

debugging. The ability to set breakpoints and examine storage is an elemental aspect of debugging that far

predates the VAX.

It is simple use DEBUG on a program. The basic steps are the same for all of the OpenVMS processors:

* compile with the /DEBUG and /NOOPTIMIZE qualifiers

(DEBUG can be used with optimized code, but it is more, sometimes very much more, difficult to correlate source

code to executable code if /NOOPTIMIZE is omitted)

* link the executable image using the /DEBUG qualifier

* execute the program using the RUN command When the program image is activated, control is first

given to DEBUG, which then invokes the actual user image. In its simplest form, the DEBUG can be instructed to

merely run the program, using the GO command. When the program finishes execution, control will be returned to

DEBUG and the user will receive a DBG> prompt (This process can be automated, which will be the subject of a

future column). There are at least four different ways in which User-mode DEBUG can be used by a developer. The most basic use of

DEBUG is the original line-by-line mode essentially unchanged from the original release of VAX/VMS in 1977.

(Chapter 7), DECwindows support (Part III, Chapter 8, et seq.), and PC client support (Part IV, Chapter 11). While

the mechanics differ slightly, the underlying strengths of OpenVMS DEBUG remains unchanged.

It is worthwhile to start with an extremely basic example of using DEBUG. To ensure that all can make use of the

example with a vanilla version of base OpenVMS, this column will use MACRO-32 for examples. MACRO-32 is

symbolic version of the native VAX instruction set. On VAX processors, MACRO-32 is a classic macro assembler. On

Alpha and Itanium processors, MACRO-32 is a compiled by rchitecture-specific compilers (AMACRO for Alpha; IMACRO

for Itanium) into equivalent programs. While today’s usage of MACRO-32 is limited, it does have the advantage that

the needed assembler/compiler is part of the base OpenVMS distribution, so every OpenVMS system can be used to work

with these examples. (versions of analogous sample programs in other popular languages are available):

.ENTRY TEST,^M>R2>

MOVZBL #157,STATUS ;Set the value of STATUS to

157

MOVZBL #SS$_NORMAL,R0 ;Set "Success" return code.

RET ;Return to caller.

.PSECT DATA,WRT,NOSHR

STATUS: .BLKL 1 ;One Longword (32 bit) storage location.

.END TEST

This source program needs to be assembled (compiled on Alpha or Itanium). The DCL command is the same in all

cases: $ MACRO/DEBUG [/NOOPTIMIZE] TEST (on Alpha/Itanium, add the /NOOPTIMIZE). Next, the object file must be

converted into an executable image using the OpenVMS LINKER. The DCL command to do this is: $ LINK/DEBUG TEST.

Using the DCL command: $ RUN TEST will now automatically start the program with DEBUG activated.

At the DBG> prompt, enter SET BREAK %LINE 2, then ENTER, then SET BREAK %LINE 3" and ENTER. DEBUG will gain control

before the first line of executable code (on VAX, this will be line 10, the first MOVZBL instruction; on

ALPHA/ITANIUM, the first actual executable instruction is the generated preamble, so the first executable

instruction will appear to be associated with the .ENTRY statement). To actually start the program, enter STEP.

After entering STEP, DEBUG should receive control before the first executable line of the program (line 10; MOVZBL

#157,STATUS). Note that since the object file is MACRO-32, the case of the symbol name is not significant, as it

would be in C/C++ and related languages. Enter the command EXAMINE STATUS to display the current value stored in

STATUS. It should be 0 (on OpenVMS, non-initialized storage is initially set to zero for security reasons).

Then enter the STEP command to execute one source statement. DEBUG will come back with break at %line 11.

Now enter the EXAMINE/DECIMAL STATUS command again. The value will now be 157 (in decimal, since we specified

/DECIMAL on the EXAMINE command.

Now type GO, and the program will complete, returning to the DBG> prompt. CTRL-Z will now return control to DCL. A

log file of this entire dialogue is included in the example archives, as is a DCL command file that performs

the entire example. In future columns of this thread, we will further explore more involved examples of how DEBUG

can be used to advantage. Reader questions about using DEBUG, or other questions

relating to OpenVMS should be addressed to the OpenVMSConsultant (at) OpenVMS.org. While I cannot promise

to answer all messages, I will try to respond as time allows. The OpenVMS Consultant welcomes questions from

readers about OpenVMS and related technologies. Please submit your questions to the OpenVMS Consultant.

Biography:

Robert Gezelter, CDP, CSA, CSE, Software Consultant, guest lecturer and technical facilitator, has more than 30 years

of international consulting experience in private and public sectors. He is a regular guest speaker at technical

conferences worldwide such as the HP Technology Forum and HPWORLD. In 2004, the IEEE Computer Society appointed Mr.

Gezelter to its Distinguished Visitors Program, which provides meeting speakers for IEEE chapters throughout

North America.

Recently, he started Ruminations - An IT Blog on IT topics not strictly related to OpenVMS.

His firm's practice emphasizes in-depth technical expertise in computer architectures, operating systems,

networks, security, APIs, and related matters. Mr. Gezelter has worked with OpenVMS since the initial release

of VAX/VMS in 1977.

His clients include small businesses to the Fortune 10, locally, nationally, and internationally on matters

spanning the range from individual telephone questions to major projects.

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Scaling your Oracle environment with Maklee Engineering When migrating from one platform to another scaling is

always a concern. Everyone aspires to have the system perform under peak load as well as it does when only few

users are connected. Tuning an Oracle environment to perform well under peak load or adapt to a sudden change in the workload (stock

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a test environment.

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DVDwrite (DVD/CD burning program) for free

If you need a program to burn CD/DVDs that is much better

than the tool that comes with OpenVMS itself, you should

try DVDwrite for OpenVMS. It is free of charge. There is

an commercial upgrade option in order to use the program

with Blu-Ray drives that burn upto 45 GB on one single

medium.

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VMS related internet radio

Radio del Mar No. 354 are on air now. Currently they are

replaying the VMS Audio Updates and some music. They are

looking for more VMS related audio.

The Radio Portal is

http://www.radio-del-mar.de/

The direct listener URL is

http://vril.marway.org:8000/listen.pls

Give them a listen and tell DJ Vaxima what you think.

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Largest OpenVMS Freeware archive goes offline

The large OpenVMS software archive at mvb.saic.com is no

longer available.

At present all that can be seen is a message

"At the request of SAIC management, the OpenVMS freeware

archives have been removed from this site and this web

site is being retired. ".

The content has been saved and I expect will be hosted in

several places. Various people are discussing where and

how.

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SDP provides the best data protection strategy and

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Migration Specialties Developing Virtual VAX & Alpha

Solutions

Migration Specialties is pleased to announce development

of VAX and Alpha virtualization solutions for OpenVMS and

Windows platforms. These solutions will allow legacy VAX

and Alpha based applications to be re-hosted onto hardware

such as HP's Integrity and Proliant platforms.

Our solution entails a virtualization layer that supports

various hardware emulators. We are developing an Alpha

emulator first, targeting production release in early

2010. This will be followed by release of a VAX emulator.

We have the support of an international group of partners

in this endeavour, including HP, Intel, Nemonix

Engineering, XDelta Limited, Strobe Data, BRUDEN-OSSG,

Camicom SSC, and Control-X Limited.

The virtual VAX and Alpha products will join Migration

Specialties suite of legacy application support solutions.

Our goal is to help customers identify and install the

legacy support option that best meets their specific

requirements, be it refreshed hardware, virtualized

hardware, or new hardware. Legacy systems exist because

they work; Migration Specialties helps you keep them

working.

Migration Specialties offers modern solutions for legacy

hardware & software. Look to us for VAX, Alpha, HP1000,

PDP-11, and DG Nova & Eclipse replacement options. We also

offer OpenVMS, C, RPG, COBOL, DIBOL, MACRO-32, application

migration, and data conversion services. Visit our web

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Quintara® Version 1.7-1 now available

Brilliant Systems is pleased to announce the release of

Quintara V1.7-1 for OpenVMS Integrity and Alphaserver

platforms.

Quintara® software from Brilliant Systems is the only

commercial full-featured web-based e-mail and personal

productivity server solution running natively on HP

OpenVMS. Quintara allows existing OpenVMS systems to be

used as powerful and secure web-based e-mail servers,

extending e-mail access to users globally.

Quintara® Secure Server, powered by Quintara®, is a

pre-packaged web-based e-mail server solution providing

reliable e-mail messaging services from virtually any web

browser client with Internet access. Quintara Secure

Server was developed by Brilliant Systems and is available

on HP Integrity systems. Quintara software can also be

installed on HP Alphaserver systems.

Quintara Secure Server is a complete turn-key packaged

system that provides e-mail services, integrated virus

scanning powered by Sophos, and spam filtering features,

together with the required server hardware and operating

system, all in one box.

Initial setup and configuration is easy, and only takes a

few minutes. Go from shipping carton to online and running

with minimal hassle and maxmimum benefits!

This release includes numerous feature updates, and

improved support for alternate character sets. Version

1.7-1 also supports the new Quintara SMTP transport, while

remaining compatible with other popular third-party

OpenVMS SMTP transports. Quintara V1.7-1 is available now.

Brilliant also announces the first field deployment of

Quintara SMTP, a new native SMTP server for OpenVMS.

Quintara SMTP is compatible with existing OpenVMS MAIL

environments, while offering many features not readily

available in existing OpenVMS-based SMTP server software

products. Quintara SMTP will be commercially available by

early spring 2009.

For additional information on either product, please call

+1 (888) 456-0400 or visit the Quintara products page at

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HP ABS for OpenVMS V4.5

HP have announced 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.

This feature is an extension of the Encryption feature

available already in the OpenVMS Version 8.3 Backup

Utility. In addition, both Manual and Automatic Key

Management for encryption will be provided. Manual Key

Management requires the Storage Administrator to keep

track of the keys used for data encryption manually. This

is risky since the data cannot be retrieved if the key is

forgotten. Automatic key management, available in ABS

Version 4.5, involves key generation during data

encryption and automatic key retrieval during data

restore.

ABS now supports both Hardware and Software Encryption.

ABS supports an LTO4 drive in an EML/ESL library (hardware

encryption). The Secure Key Manager (SKM), which is also

qualified on ABS, performs the key management

functionalities. ABS, as mentioned before, also provides

software encryption by encrypting the VMS data files using

AES or DES algorithms.

The ABS V4.5, on both the Integrity and Alpha platforms,

are already available for download from

ahead of its physical delivery.

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OpenVMS Technical Update Day, UK

This seminar will detail the new capabilities of OpenVMS

8.4 planned to ship later in 2009.

London, 19 March 2009.

This seminar will detail the new capabilities of OpenVMS

8.4 planned to ship later in 2009, including OpenVMS as a

guest operating system within HP Virtual Machine (HPVM)

V4.5 and the advantages of moving to Blade systems. Future

features, Green Computing and Roadmap will also be

presented, so the event may be held under NDA

(Non-disclosure).

http://www.hpug.org.uk

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EVENTS

The Connect Community web site has a Calender of events at

19 March HPUG UK, London

OpenVMS Update

http://www.hpug.org.uk

26 March

HP-Connect Sweden OpenVMS SIG Meeting at SAAB

http://www.hp-interex.se/

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BRUDEN OSSG - OpenVMS Training

http://www.brudenossg.com/

Host Based Volume Shadowing (HBVS) Basics and Beyond

OpenVMS System Management I

OpenVMS System Management II

Managing Complex OpenVMS Systems

DCL Command Procedure Design and Implementation

OpenVMS Troubleshooting Using Availability Manager

RMS Design and Performance

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SimH 3.8-1 released

A new bug fix release of the system simulator SIMH is now

available. SimH 3.8-1 includes various bug fixes including

VAX:

* Fxed bug in ASHP left overflow calc

* Fixed bug in DIVx

* Resync time of day clock on any clock reset

SimH can be downloaded from the The Computer History

Simulation Project web site.

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/

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muCommander 0.8.3 on OpenVMS

Thierry Uso has ported file manager, muCommander 0.8.3, to

OpenVMS.

written in Java and published under GPL. It has also the

additional features of (S)FTP, NFS, SMB client and ZIP,

JAR, TAR archive brower.

muCommander for OpenVMS needs Java 1.5-0 or later and must

be installed on an ODS5 volume. muCommander has been

tested on Alpha and Itanium.

For more information including details of some

restrictions then see mucommander on OpenVMS.

http://vmsfree.ouvaton.org/freen/index.php?s=mucommander

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GT.M 5.3-003 released

GT.M is a high-performance schemaless database engine,

optimized for transaction processing. GT.M is also an

application development platform and a compiler for the

ANSI/ISO standard M language, which was formerly known as

MUMPS.

V5.3-003 is a new release and is available for OpenVMS and

other platforms,.

V5.3-003 is a new GT.M release with useful additional

functionality. Complete details are in the GT.M V5.3

release notes. Highlights include

# IO to a process

# ZSHOW now supports a new code "G" that reports per

process global variable statistics

# Full support for Mapped Memory (MM) database access

# A permanent fix to the buffer overflow security

vulnerability

For more details and to download kits for OpenVMS Alpha

visit GT.M on sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/

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Veritas NetBackup 6.5.2a OpenVMS client release update

The Veritas NetBackup 6.5.2a OpenVMS client release update

is now available for HP Itanium (IA64), Alpha and VAX

systems.

This release contains the following new features, changes

and enhancements:-

1. Support for all 6.5 master and media servers.

2. On a server initiated alternate path restore both the

"from" and "to" paths must be specified as UNIX file

specifications. UNIX file specifications that end with the

slash character are considered by the VMS client to be

directory specifications. If the "from" path is a

directory (it ends with the slash character) and the "to"

path is not a directory (it does not end with the slash

character) then the "to" path is made to be a directory by

appending a trailing slash character. This ensures that on

an alternate path restore, a directory of files are

restored to another directory.

3. Improved date and time conversions between OpenVMS and

UNIX systems.

4. Support for the restoration of very large files

(greater than 512 GB) to the following fibre attached

storage arrays; "HP StorageWorks EVA 4000, 6000, 8000 -

Enterprise Virtual Array" and the "HP StorageWorks 1000

Modular Smart Array".

5. Regression error correction - correct support for the:-

/EXCLUDE=(file-spec,...)

exclude syntax. Including support for the exclusion of

just file extentions such as (*.obj,*.lis,*.log,...) etc.

6. The following exclude file-spec syntax is depreciated:-

/EXCLUDE=exclude-file-list.lis

and should be specified as an indirect @file-spec:-

/EXCLU...@exclude-file-list.lis

with the leading '@' indirect file-spec character. See the

"The Backup /EXCLUDE qualifier" section of the NetBackup

User's Guide for OpenVMS.

7. Both the backup and exclude file lists now support

local process and group level logical names.

8. Support for the NBU restore command:-

RESTORE

wild-card-fspec/ID=backup-id/SELECT=(file-spec,...)

/SELECT=(file-spec,...) syntax. Select one or more file

specifications for restore from within the wild-card-fspec

portion of a backup.

9. Support for Swedish character set file names.

10. Support for the double circumflex (^^) ODS-5 character

file name sequence.

11. Improved backup performance when processing very large

directories

Download NB_VMS_65_2a3.zip from

ftp://ftp.emea.veritas.com/pub/support/Products/NetBackup_OpenVMS/NB_VMS_65_2a3.zip

Detailed installation notes are in the NetBackup User's

Guide for OpenVMS which is included in the zip archive.

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MULTINET PATCHES

ECO: UCX_LIBRARY_EMULATION-110_A052

Description: Add a logical to cause getaddrinfo to

not attempt AAAA lookup

Release date: 6-FEB-2009

Ranking: 3

Max ranking: 2

Versions: V5.2A,V5.1A

Requisites:

ftp://ftp.multinet.process.com/patches/multinet052/ucx_library_emulation-110_a052.zip

ECO: USER_TELNET-020_A052

Description: Add a logical to cause getaddrinfo to

not attempt AAAA lookup

Release date: 6-FEB-2009

Ranking: 3

Max ranking: 3

Versions: V5.2A

Requisites:

ftp://ftp.multinet.process.com/patches/multinet052/user_telnet-020_a052.zip

To search the MultiNet ECO database, please visit the

following URL:

http://www.multinet.process.com/eco.html

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NEW ECO KITS

The following kits have been released since the previous

newsletter.

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V6.2

VMS732_INSTAL-V0300 Rating: INSTALL_3

VMS732_FIBRE_SCSI-V1600 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V7.3-2

VMS82A_INSTAL-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_3

VMS82A_FIBRE_SCSI-V0800 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/

VMS83A_INSTAL-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3

VMS83A_FIBRE_SCSI-V0600 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.3/

VMS821I_INSTAL-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_3

VMS821I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0900 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/

VMS83I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0900 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.3/

VMS831H1I_FIBRE_SCSI-V0400 Rating: INSTALL_2 (FC, SCSI)

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.3-1/

DECforms V4.0 Patch 2

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/product_patches/hpdecforms/decforms/openvms/FORMSI040_PATCH_2.txt

ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/product_patches/hpdecforms/decforms/openvms/FORMSI040_PATCH_2.ZIPEXE

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ECO INFORMATION

Remember you can sign up to get an email whenever there is

a new VMS patch

http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Alerts

OpenVMS.Org patch information page

http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=Patches

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/alpha/V8.3/ALPHA_V83_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/i64/V8.3/I64_V83I_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

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

NOTE on Patch Ratings

1. HP recommends everyone install this patch

2. HP Recommended patch if you use the specified feature

3. Patch only required if you want the specific fixes

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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://64.223.189.234/node/1

hp VMS Freeware http://mvb.saic.com

OpenVMS Events http://h71000.www7.hp.com/new/events.html

hp DSPP http://www.hp.com/go/dspp

hp itrc VMS forum

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/familyhome.do?familyId=288

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