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CONTENTS:
- COCKPIT MANAGER 7.3 FOR OPENVMS
- VTJ 13 NOW AVAILABLE
- ANNOUNCING HP OPENVMS TDC V2.3-20
- Purvis Systems - Itanium Innovation Awards
- NHSBT Pulse Renewal - Itanium Innovation Awards
- HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS BIND Server Remote DOS
- eCube Systems Adds to HP OpenVMS Practice
- Barry Kierstein Joins eCube Systems
- Process Software Expands Consulting Business
- GT.M V5.3-004 released
- OpenVMS Booting, Act II
- PointSecure and MVP Systems Software Partner
- OpenVMS – Keep it. Modernise it. Integrate it.
- OpenVMS Technical Update Days in Europe
- Invitation to 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards
- Itanium Solutions Blog
- New Golden Egg - MDS600 cluster
- New Whitepaper: Consolidation in the Data Center
- EVENTS
- TAO 1.7.2 on OpenVMS I64
- SMH Patch release V2.0-20
- curl / libcurl 7.19.6 available for OpenVMS
- PMAS V3.1-3 available for download
- AsItHappens 0.55
- MULTINET PATCHES
- NEW ECO KITS
- ECO INFORMATION
- QUICK LINKS
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INTRODUCTION
It's holiday season but there still seems to be news.
I'm always interested in more OpenVMS news and your feedback.
Ian
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COCKPIT MANAGER 7.3 FOR OPENVMS
HP have announced the availability of CockpitMgr V7.3 for OpenVMS.
CockpitMgr V7.3 is a new major release. Compared to other
V7 releases, it contains some bug fixes and small improvements to the existing software modules, but also new functionality
For many years CockpitMgr stands for a complete toolset supporting the VMS system manager in the daily operations.
# The product includes a console manager # a system monitor # SNMP-based monitoring tools # an SNMPtrap listener and interpreter # a logfile browser # security event monitoring # a job scheduler # an event console # a graphical user interface # pager utilities # web-based reporting tools # configuration and change management utilities
# There are various features including WASD can be instead of SWS (based on Apache) # monitoring blade enclosures # A new Console Manager scan profile is available, to scan for events from RDB # The Cockpit System Agent has been extended with the possibility to scan for environmental entries, such as power supply and fan issues, in the system error log.
CockpitMgr evolves with the latest technologies and is currently deployed by large OpenVMS customers. It runs on OpenVMS.
Cockpit Manager is developed by an HP team but sold via an HP partner Stromasys, who is the world-wide reseller of CockpitMgr. Please contact Arie de Groot at Stromasys.
More information is available at the Stromasys web site http://www.stromasys.ch/products/cockpitmgr/
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VTJ 14 NOW AVAILABLE
The latest edition of the OpenVMS Technical Journal - V13 July 2009 - is now available.
In this version you will find various interesting articles including a White Paper describing how iCAP is configured on OpenVMS HP Integrity servers, addressing various customer scenarios and troubleshooting configuration issues by Abu Sarkar, OpenVMS Engineering, HP.
Additionally in this edition, you'll find these articles :
# Configuring TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS, Bart Zorn - an updated version is avaiable here http://www.openvms.org/vms/vtj13_tcpip_congiguration.pdf
# OpenVMS I64 TIE Internals: Emulating Alpha Control Instructions, Tim E. Sneddon, Kednos Enterprises # Trouble-shooting iCAP (Instant Capacity) on OpenVMS, Abu Sarkar # A Starlet is Born: New Options for VAX and Alpha Hardware Replacement, Camiel Vanderhoeven, Hardware Illusionist # The MultiNet Intrusion Prevention System, Jeremy Begg, Managing Director, VSM Software Services Pty Ltd.
# OpenVMS and Perl - a Powerful Match, Bernd Ulmann - note that the published version is a severely compromised version of the article submitted by the author. This article does not reflect the author's oppinion and has explicitly not been authorized for publication, alas it was published anyway. Therefore the correct and unabridged version of the article is being published separately.
http://de.openvms.org/data/perl_otj.pdf
# Performance Management for OpenVMS Systems, Jeff Maffe, Vice President, SightLine Systems Corporation # Adding Physical CD support to the SIMH VAX, Michael D.
Duffy, Support Engineer, Apple iPhone.
Go to the HP OpenVMS Technical Journal web site today.
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/journal
Previous editions and the OpenVMS Technical Journal Master Table of Contents are also available.
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ANNOUNCING HP OPENVMS TDC V2.3-20
This is a bug fix release of The Performance Data
Collector for HP OpenVMS (TDC).
TDC gathers performance data for OpenVMS systems. No
additional license or cost is required to use TDC. This
version of TDC can be installed on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2
and later, and OpenVMS I64 V8.2-1 and later.
By default, TDC periodically collects and stores data in a
file. Subsequently, applications can retrieve and analyze
data from the file. Openview Performance Agent, ECP
Version 5.6A can all read data from TDC.
This release addresses issues discovered in TDC Version
2.3-18 and earlier versions of TDC Version 2.3. Do not
install this version of TDC on OpenVMS Integrity server
Version 8.2.
For more information and to download go to Performance
Data Collector for HP OpenVMS.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/tdc/index.html
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Purvis Systems - Itanium Innovation Awards
Purvis Systems was given "Honorable Mention" in the 2009
Itanium Innovation Awards in the area of "Humanitarian
Impact." The Humanitarian Impact category awards the
innovative use of Itanium-based systems to deliver results
that benefit humanity through research, social
improvements or other humanitarian efforts.
Purvis Systems, contractor to the Fire Department of New
York City (FDNY), ported the FDNY's City-wide Management
Information and Control System to an HP Itanium rx3600
running OpenVMS V8.3. The system powers dispatch to all
five boroughs, supporting the 11,275 uniformed fire
personnel in 221 firehouses with approximately 500
vehicles. The system processed approximately 475,000
incidents in 2008 including 26,862 structural fires, with
significantly improved incident response times over the
previous system.
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NHSBT Pulse Renewal project - Itanium Innovation Awards
XDelta Limited and the NHSBT Pulse Renewal Project was
given "Honorable Mention" in the 2009 Itanium Innovation
Awards
[http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/itanium_innovation_awards]
in the area of "Humanitarian Impact." The Humanitarian
Impact category awards the innovative use of Itanium-based
systems to deliver results that benefit humanity through
research, social improvements or other humanitarian
efforts.
XDelta Limited was responsible for the design and
implementation of the disaster-tolerant system platform
for “Pulse Renewal,” a project for the National Health
Service Blood & Transplant organization that manages the
entire supply chain of blood products from donation,
through testing and blood product production, to the safe
and timely issue of blood products across England and
North Wales. The system implements disaster-tolerant
OpenVMS clusters using Itanium-based HP Integrity Servers
and contains the world’s largest single national database
of blood donors.
Other participating organisations in the project are:
www.blood.co.uk - NHSBT (end customer)
www.savant.co.uk - Savant (Pulse application provider and
maintainer)
www.mimer.se - Mimer (Mimer-SQL database provider)
www.ocsl.co.uk - OCSL (HP hardware reseller)
Colin Butcher of XDelta recorded a video keynote NHSBT
"Pulse renewal" project
Note that the summary text includes links to the
Availability Digest article which describes the system in
more detail and the HP OpenVMS systems home page where
this project is still the lead story on the page header.
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HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS BIND Server Remote DOS
SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN
Document ID: c01835459
Version: 1
HPSBOV02452 SSRT090161 rev.1 - HP TCP/IP Services for
OpenVMS BIND Server Remote Denial of Service (DoS)
NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should
be acted upon as soon as possible.
Release Date: 2009-08-06
Last Updated: 2009-08-06
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Potential Security Impact: Remote Denial of Service (DoS)
Source: Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Software Security
Response Team
VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
A potential security vulnerability has been identified
with OpenVMS running HP TCP/IP Services BIND server. The
vulnerability could be remotely exploited to create a
Denial of Service (DoS).
References: CVE-2009-0696
SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are
listed.
HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS v5.4, v5.5, v5.6 on Itanium
and Alpha.
BACKGROUND
For a PGP signed version of this security bulletin please
write to: security-alert@hp.com
CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics Reference Base Vector Base Score
CVE-2009-0696 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) 4.3
Information on CVSS is documented in HP Customer Notice:
HPSN-2008-002
RESOLUTION
HP has made the following patched BIND server files
available to resolve the vulnerability. The patches are
available from the ftp site, hprc.external.hp.com,
username is vmsbind and the password is vmsbind.
The patched files is available via ftp: system:
hprc.external.hp.com
Login: vmsbind
Password: vmsbind
FTP Access URL:
ftp://vmsbind:vmsbind@hprc.external.hp.com/
There are patches for all TCP/IP versions (i.e. v54-ECO7,
v55-ECO3, and v56-ECO4) for both ALPHA and ITANIUM
platforms. Download the file needed from the ftp server
for the particular server architecture and TCP/IP services
version. The ECO level in each patch file name refers to
the TCP/IP services ECO which must be installed prior to
using this patch. Itanium Images
TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE_SECURITY_V55_ECO3_ITN
TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE_SECURITY_V56_ECO4_ITN
Alpha Images
TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE_SECURITY_V54_ECO7_ALPHA
TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE_SECURITY_V55_ECO3_ALPHA
TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE_SECURITY_V56_ECO4_ALPHA
After backing up the TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE file, copy the
new file to the TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE image already
existing in the SYS$COMMON: [SYSEXE] directory and restart
the BIND server.
Use these steps to install the new images on a system:
1. Make a safe backup copy of TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE image
already existing in the SYS$COMMON: [SYSEXE] directory.
2. Copy the new patch image for the correct architecture
and TCP/IP Services versions to TCPIP$BIND_SERVER.EXE to
the SYS$COMMON: [SYSEXE].
3. Restart the BIND service using the commands to shutdown
and start the service:
Stop the service: @sys$startup:tcpip$bind_shutdown.com
Start the BIND service:
@sys$startup:tcpip$bind_startup.com
PRODUCT SPECIFIC INFORMATION
None
HISTORY
Version:1 (rev.1) 06 August 2009 Initial release
Third Party Security Patches: Third party security patches
that are to be installed on systems running HP software
products should be applied in accordance with the
customer's patch management policy.
Support: For further information, contact normal HP
Services support channel.
Report: To report a potential security vulnerability with
any HP supported product, send Email to:
security-alert@hp.com
It is strongly recommended that security related
information being communicated to HP be encrypted using
PGP, especially exploit information.
To get the security-alert PGP key, please send an e-mail
message as follows:
To: security-alert@hp.com
Subject: get key
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On the web page: ITRC security bulletins and patch sign-up
Under Step1: your ITRC security bulletins and patches
-check ALL categories for which alerts are required
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Under Step2: your ITRC operating systems
-verify your operating system selections are checked
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Log in on the web page: Subscriber's choice for Business:
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- use Edit Profile to update appropriate sections.
To review previously published Security Bulletins visit:
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/secBullArchive.do
* The Software Product Category that this Security
Bulletin relates to is represented by the 5th and 6th
characters of the Bulletin number in the title: GN = HP
General SW MA = HP Management Agents MI = Misc. 3rd Party
SW
MP = HP MPE/iX NS = HP NonStop Servers OV = HP OpenVMS
PI = HP Printing & Imaging ST = HP Storage SW TL = HP
Trusted Linux
TU = HP Tru64 UNIX UX = HP-UX VV = HP VirtualVault
System management and security procedures must be reviewed
frequently to maintain system integrity. HP is continually
reviewing and enhancing the security features of software
products to provide customers with current secure
solutions.
"HP is broadly distributing this Security Bulletin in
order to bring to the attention of users of the affected
HP products the important security information contained
in this Bulletin. HP recommends that all users determine
the applicability of this information to their individual
situations and take appropriate action. HP does not
warrant that this information is necessarily accurate or
complete for all user situations and, consequently, HP
will not be responsible for any damages resulting from
user's use or disregard of the information provided in
this Bulletin. To the extent permitted by law, HP
disclaims all warranties, either express or implied,
including the warranties of merchantability and fitness
for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement."
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Hewlett-Packard Company shall not be liable for technical
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downtime cost; lost profits;damages relating to the
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countries. Other product and company names mentioned
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eCube Systems Adds to HP OpenVMS Practice
eCube Systems®, a leading provider of tools and middleware
products for enterprise systems, announces the hiring of
Susan Skonetski as Vice President of Relationship
Managmement.
A well-known contributor to the HP OpenVMS community,
Skonetski will build and enhance eCube's client
relationships and business within the OpenVMS community as
well as contribute to the Open VMS community's health and
growth.
"Hiring Skonetski demonstrates eCube's commitment to the
OpenVMS community," said Kevin Barnes, Managing Partner
and CEO of eCube Systems. "With her irreplaceable
background and experience, she will enhance eCube’s
ability to deliver not just excellent technology, but
world-class customer-vendor relationships."
Susan joins eCube with 25 years in the software industry,
including extensive experience at Hewlett Packard, Compaq
and Digital, having most recently worked with the OpenVMS
organization.
"I am very excited to join the eCube team," commented
Skonetski. "eCube brings new and valuable products and
services to OpenVMS. These offerings enable customers to
continue to use the stable back end OpenVMS operating
systems that they have come to rely on, while providing
the best of today's development and UI tools. The
commitment to this community that eCube demonstrates is
one that I can support and believe in."
About eCube Systems, L.L.C.
eCube Systems offers a family of legacy evolution products
and services that maximize return on investment by
leveraging existing technical equity to meet evolving
business needs. Fortune 1000 companies and government
agencies turn to eCube Systems to reduce risk, extend ROI,
and increase productivity as they consolidate existing
capabilities and evolve legacy systems to contemporary SOA
platforms, such as ESB and Web Services.
eCube Systems, LLC, is headquartered in Montgomery, Texas,
with marketing offices in Boston, MA and R&D in San Mateo,
California, USA and Montreal Canada.
For more information, contact eCube Systems by email, on
the World Wide Web at http://www.ecubesystems.com or by
calling (866) 493-4224.
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Barry Kierstein Joins eCube Systems
eCube Systems, a leading provider of tools and middleware
products for enterprise systems, announces the hiring of
Barry Kierstein as a Senior Product Manager.
Prior to joining eCube, Barry spent 13 years as a Software
Engineer and system architect with the HP/Compaq OpenVMS
Engineering team. Previous to his tenure at HP/Compaq
Barry was a customer who managed an OpenVMS cluster at the
University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Barry is well known in the OpenVMS community for his
excellent participation in a number of forums including -
OpenVMS Boot camp, HP Tech Forum, HP's European Technical
Update Days Workshops and various webinars.
"We are pleased to add Barry to our team, said Kevin
Barnes, CEO of eCube Systems. "His engineering, product
management, and industry experience, will contribute to
our ability to exceed client expectations and deliver
well-designed, customer-focused products."
For more information, contact eCube Systems by email, on
the World Wide Web at www.ecubesystems.com or by calling
(866) 493-4224
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Process Software Expands Consulting Business
Process Software is growing and we are investing in the
future of our OpenVMS products and service business. With
over 25 years in business and 3,000 customers, Process
Software has a strong reputation for delivering reliable
and secure networking and messaging products to
mission-critical enterprises. We are now planning to
expand our consulting business to these customers and are
looking for candidates with a strong background in the
area of new customer application development, supporting
customer applications, and VMS system management and
system performance. Process Software consultants must
initially be willing to work on a contract basis. This job
is ideal for the independent consultant that welcomes the
backing of an organization that will focus on prospecting,
selling and supporting the services.
Interested candidates, send an email to
bryant@process.com.
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GT.M V5.3-004 released
An updated version of the GT.M database is now available.
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. GT.M is freely available with source code, and
commercial support is available.
The GT.M V5.3-004 release includes new functionality,
performance improvements and bug fixes, and is available
for OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-1/7.3-2/8.2/8.3. See the GT.M
V5.3-004 release notes.
http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/user_documentation/html/rn_tb/GT_M_V5_3_004_Release_N.html
The developers anticipate future releases on the x86
GNU/Linux and Alpha/AXP OpenVMS platforms, but not the
Tru64 UNIX platform.
For more information and to download GT.M see GT.M on
Sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/
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OpenVMS Booting, Act II
Progress Report: OpenVMS Boots on Emulated Disks
Progress continues with the Alpha Emulator. Since our
first boot report in mid-June, the following milestones
have been met:
# Boot the installation CD-ROM
# Install VMS onto an emulated disk
# Boot off the emulated disk
# Boot off a restore image of an OpenVMS system disk
# AUTOGEN runs successfully
Development remains on schedule. We anticipate announcing
product availability and pricing in Q4, 2009, as
originally planned.
More information on our emulator development effort is
available at
www.migrationspecialties.com/VAXAlphaEmulator.html
Founded in 1992, Migration Specialties offers modern
solutions for legacy hardware & software. Look to us for
VAX, Alpha, HP1000, PDP-11, and DG Nova & Eclipse
replacement options. Visit our web site at
www.MigrationSpecialties.com for more information
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PointSecure and MVP Systems Software Partner
Leading Software Providers Secure, Automate Major
Healthcare, Financial, Telecom, Manufacturing and
Transportation Organizations Using OpenVMS
PointSecure, the leader in OpenVMS security and auditing
tools, and MVP Systems Software, the leading provider of
enterprise batch job scheduling software, today announced
a joint partnership. With PointSecure's security and
auditing products and MVP’s JAMS Job Scheduler, OpenVMS
administrators can fill their security, auditing and job
scheduling needs with one phone call.
"If you send a text message today, odds are it passed
through an OpenVMS server. Most healthcare information and
money transfers also go through OpenVMS," said Rick
Pleczko, President and CEO of PointSecure. "According to
HP, there are more than 10 million users who rely on
OpenVMS, making securing and managing the platform a must.
MVP Systems and PointSecure can help OpenVMS users with
both tasks easily and effectively."
PointSecure’s solutions include:
- System Detective™ - A powerful security and auditing
solution that helps to identify who did what, when, and
how on your OpenVMS systems.
- PointAudit™ - Helps to improve security and ensure
compliance with regulatory and data security requirements
such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA, and Basel II by
providing customizable, low-impact auditing and reporting
on settings across multiple OpenVMS systems.
"OpenVMS has a long history in some of the largest IT
organizations in the world and therefore, it handles our
customers' most vital data," said Scott McCausland, Vice
President at MVP Systems. "We look forward to working with
PointSecure to deliver their leading security and auditing
solutions to our JAMS customers."
JAMS (Job Access and Management System) is an easy-to use
and extremely powerful batch processing solution that is
suitable for any size organization. The reliability of
JAMS is unprecedented, processing tens of millions of
batch jobs for hundreds of companies each and every day.
JAMS Job Scheduler provides:
- Cross-platform scheduling – Windows, OpenVMS, Linux,
UNIX – in fact, all operating systems are covered by JAMS
- .NET framework for easy application integration
- Resource-based scheduling so that users and applications
are never impacted by the back-end processing
- Native PowerShell support, Microsoft’s robust automation
and scripting language.
About PointSecure
PointSecure is the market leader in security solutions for
the OpenVMS platform, helping companies protect OpenVMS
systems from both external and internal security threats
while ensuring compliance with security policies and
governmental regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA and BS779.
Our customers include some of the largest OpenVMS
installations in the world. Headquartered in Houston,
Texas, PointSecure was founded by veterans in the OpenVMS
and security management industry to provide proven,
effective security technologies to the OpenVMS community.
For more information or to schedule a live demonstration
of PointSecure’s solutions, please visit
http://www.pointsecure.com
About MVP Systems Software, Inc.
For more than 20 years, MVP Systems Software, Inc. has
provided leading-edge batch job scheduling and automation
solutions to its more than 600+ 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 traditional software as well as
SaaS models. To learn more about MVP, please visit
http://www.JAMSScheduler.com or call 866-259-JAMS.
PointSecure is a division of BBS Technologies, Inc.
PointSecure is a trademark or registered trademark of BBS
Technologies, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United
States and other jurisdictions. All other company and
product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective companies.
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STORServer, Inc.
Committed to developing software products that meet the
needs of OpenVMS customers.
Archive Backup Client (ABC):
Connect to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and backup,
archive, restore, query and manage OpenVMS files stored on
TSM servers.
http://www.storserver.com/ovms_abc
STORServer Data Protection (SDP):
Backup Oracle and Oracle Rdb databases to TSM while open
or "hot".
SDP provides the best data protection strategy and
solution available.
SDP for Oracle: http://www.storserver.com/ovms_oracle
SDP for Oracle Rdb: http://www.storserver.com/ovms_rdb
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OpenVMS – Keep it. Modernise it. Integrate it.
Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM BST
Webinar Overview
# Need to access your OpenVMS data and applications for
use in reports, portals and web applications?
# Interested in learning how others have been successful?
Webinar Description:
Join us for the hpUG’s first webinar to discover
cost-effective ways of utilising OpenVMS data and
applications across your organisation.
As IT infrastructures become more diverse, the ability to
treat OpenVMS on a level playing field with Windows and
open systems is becoming more and more important.
John Apps, OpenVMS Ambassador, will introduce Attunity, a
global leader in data and application integration
solutions for OpenVMS systems. Over the years HP and
Attunity have worked together to solve many OpenVMS
integration challenges. John Apps and Ian Archibald
(Attunity Pre-Sales Director EMEA) will share their
experiences with real examples and case studies covering
web and legacy application integration, data integration
and operational reporting and BI.
The webinar will conclude with a Q&A session.
Register online via this link:
www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875254121
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OpenVMS Technical Update Days in Europe
HP announce the dates of Technical Update Days(TUDs) in
Europe. These TUDs will be conducted in 5 countries viz.
Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden.
# The dates in September 2009 are :- 14th Switzerland
# 15th France
# 17-18th Germany
# 21-22nd Netherlands
# 24-25th Sweden
This is heads up to pencil these dates in your calendar.
We are looking forward to having active participation and
contribution from all of you. Considerable thought and
dialogues have gone in arriving at the content and agenda
for the TUDs this year. As usual, we are sure you will
find the technology content and the discussions enriching
and informative.
Watch this space for more details on venue and agenda for
each country in the coming weeks.
Thanks and warm regards
Sujatha Global Lead- Customer & Partner Technical programs
OpenVMS Engineering
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Invitation to 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards
from Susan Skonetski, eCube Systems
I was very pleased to see that two of this year's
finalists, XDelta and Purvis Systems run OpenVMS.
Who: Itanium Solutions Alliance
What: 2009 Itanium Innovation Awards
Where: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third
Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
When: September 23rd, 2009 6 - 8 pm
Why: To celebrate innovation and achievement for solutions
based on the Itanium architecture
Summary:
"Join industry leaders in enterprise and technical
computing, Alliance sponsor executives, award finalists,
and industry press and analysts for hors d'oeuvres,
cocktails, and live music as we honour innovation and
achievement in solving computing challenges using Intel®
Itanium technology. The Awards Celebration is held
concurrently with the Intel Developer Forum at the SFMOMA,
located just a block from the Moscone Center. Prizes will
be awarded in the categories of Mission-Critical Data,
Data Center Modernization, Computationally Intensive
Applications, and Humanitarian Impact. The event will be
hosted by Intel executives Kirk Skaugen and Pat
Gelsinger."
To learn more about the event: Itanium Innovation Awards
http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/itanium_innovation_awards
Those interested in attending should request an invitation
here (please mention you were referred by Sue):
http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/itanium_innovation_awards/request_to_attend_event
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Itanium Solutions Blog
Recently the Itanium Solutions Alliance
[http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/] blog has had items on
the Itanium Architecture. As this architecture is not
familiar to most people and different to other current CPU
architectures they are worth reading.
The first series is
The Parallel Universe: Opening the Door:
Part I -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/07/the-parallel-universe-opening-the-door-pt-i/
Part II -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/07/the-parallel-universe-opening-the-door-pt-ii/
Part III -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/07/the-parallel-universe-opening-the-door-pt-iii/
Part IV -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/07/the-parallel-universe-opening-the-door-pt-iv/
The second series so far has The Parallel Universe: Mining
Parallelism:
Part I -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/08/the-parallel-universe-mining-parallelism-pt-i/
Part II -
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/2009/08/the-parallel-universe-mining-parallelism-pt-ii/
You can read all entries at The Itanium Solutions Blog.
http://blog.itaniumsolutions.org/
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New Golden Egg - MDS600 cluster
There is a new golden egg configuration diagram of a
OpenVMS Cluster using the new HP StorageWorks 600 Modular
Disk System(MDS600 see
www.openvms.org/stories.php?story=09/07/09/8122932) and HP
blades.
Golden Eggs are very useful hardware configuration
diagrams.
The Golden Egg creator, Matti Pätäri, says "This summer
our Artic goose's nesting has been successful to make the
MSD600 Golden Eggs up in the air.
This HP StorageWorks MDS600 and OpenVMS Blade servers
BL860 are painted in c3000 environment.
This is a brand new diagram"
You can find this one at
http://goldeneggs.spyderbyte.com/geggs/HP-GE-MDS600-A.pdf
Why not have a look at all of them at
http://www.openvms.org/pages.php?page=GoldenEggs
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New Whitepaper: Consolidation in the Data Center
Virtualization, Choice and Performance Drive More
Efficient and Flexible IT Consolidation
http://www.itaniumsolutions.org/files/resource_media/2EEA1B7D-A687-F9AD-D31E4B4650C470AD.pdf
This paper discusses the benefits of open-architecture
systems that provide a flexible, cost-effective platform
for IT consolidation in the data center. Efficiency,
multiple approaches to virtualization, a range of
operating systems, and high-end scalability allow
Itanium-based systems to accommodate any combination of
workloads, from small Web applications to the largest
databases. This paper also outlines the sophisticated RAS
and security features on Itanium.
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EVENTS
Sep 15, 2009 10:00 BST
Attunity Webinar
Sep 14-25 European TUDs
The Connect Community web site has a Calender of events at
http://www.connect-community.org/?page=Events
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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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TAO 1.7.2 on OpenVMS I64
Remedy IT has published TAO 1.7.2, the open source C++
CORBA implementation on the market. TAO is currently
available for OpenVMS IA64.
TAO is a C++ ORB that is compliant with most of the
features and services defined in the CORBA 3.x
specification, which includes the Real-time CORBA
specification. TAO can be downloaded from the Internet and
freely used and redistributed without developer or
run-time licensing costs and commercial support is
available.
TAO can be obtained from
http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu.
For more information regarding the OpenVMS port see Remedy
IT
http://www.theaceorb.nl/
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SMH Patch release V2.0-20
HP have released an updated version of the Systen
Management Homepage for OpenVMS.
HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH) for OpenVMS is the
single system management solution for managing OpenVMS. HP
SMH is also available for HP-UX, Linux and Microsoft®
Windows® systems.
The key features of HP SMH for OpenVMS are its system
administration capabilities and its ability to display
details of hardware attributes. The HP SMH solution
provides an easy-to-use interface for displaying hardware
fault and status monitoring, system thresholds, and
diagnostics for an individual server by aggregating the
data from HP web-based agents.
HP SMH integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM)
[www.hp.com/go/sim]
# In SMH V2.0-20 there are two new features Support for
Settable Threshold Temperatures on Blade Systems
# Support for SMH Recovery During Installation
and various bug fixes.
For details and to download the new release go to HP
System Management Homepage OpenVMS.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/smh/
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curl / libcurl 7.19.6 available for OpenVMS
curl / libcurl 7.19.6 has been released and thanks to John
Malmberg kits PCSI install kits of binaries for OpenVMS
B8.3 are available.
For those who don't know what cURL is, here is the blurb
from their main page...
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with
URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER,
TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS
certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading,
kerberos, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,
user+password authentication, file transfer resume, http
proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.
ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/jem-axpvms-curl-v0719-6-1.zip
ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/jem-axpvms-curl-v0719-6-1.pcsi_compressed
This kit use ZLIB 1.2.3 which also have kits available:
ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/jem-axpvms-zlib-v0102-3e1-1.zip
ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/jem-axpvms-zlib-v0102-3e1-1.pcsi_compressed
libcurl and ZLIB are supplied as shared images with
symbols both in exact case and uppercase symbols for easy
use in other projects.
curl --version
curl 7.19.6 (alpha-dec-vms) libcurl/7.19.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
zlib/1.2.3
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap http file https ftps
Features: GSS-Negotiate IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz
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PMAS V3.1-3 available for download
As with previous PMAS ECOs, the V3.1-3 kits are full
installation
kits, so if you haven't yet installed PMAS V3.1, you can
skip it and
go straight to V3.1-3.
Note: the Tru64 kit will be available tomorrow.
Server: ftp.pmas.process.com
User name: anonymous
Password: misterslaughter
The PMAS V3.1-3 kits are in the [.ECO030] directory in the
download
area. The changes are documented below.
Thank you for choosing PMAS!
Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/
goathunter@GOATLEY.COM http://www.goatley.com/hunter/
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1.1 New Features and Bug fixes in PreciseMail
Anti-Spam
Gateway V3.1-3
o PMAS rule files now allow includes (using
"@") up to
five levels deep. Previously, an included
file could
not include another file.
o In order to reduce the memory requirements of
the
PMAS PTSMTP worker processes, a new
configuration
variable, PTSMTP_MAX_SIZE, has been created.
The
maximum message size is specified in bytes
(the
default value is 0, which disables the
check).
Messages larger than the specified size will
be
passed to the backend server without being
scanned
or logged in PMAS.LOG.
o The AI support for quarantine and discard
files did
not handle the new ISAM indexed files on
OpenVMS.
This problem has been corrected. (Previously
released in a separate image update to
V3.1-2.)
o When a message was written to the quarantine
or
discard index, the username was not
converted to
lowercase, causing problems for mixed-case
addresses
when those users logged in via the GUI. The
symptom
was they couldn't see their quarantined
messages.
This update corrects the logging code so
that the
email addresses are converted to lowercase
so the
keyed reads will work. (Previously released
in a
separate image update to V3.1-2.)
o A problem with the UAI$M_PWDMIX support when
logging
into the PMAS GUI has been corrected
(previously
released in a separate image update to
V3.1-2.)
o A number of problems with the web-based PMAS
GUI
have been corrected.
o A problem with the precedence order of the
groups
displayed in the group administration page
has
been corrected.
o The PMAS domain administrator cookie is now
cleared by PMASLOGOUT.
o Alias lookups are now performed for the
special
"$default$" logins.
o The PMAS CGI script ALLOWLIST did not
properly
handle uploaded CSV files using only
carriage-
returns as line terminators. This problem
has
been corrected.
o Several problems in the user-impersonation
features have been corrected:
o When a domain admin impersonates a user
and
displays the quarantine, the quarantine
displayed is only for that user.
Previously,
the quarantine for the entire domain
was
incorrectly displayed.
o When logging out of domain-impersonated
user,
the start page no longer displays the
user's
email address.
o When impersonating a user, the proper
start
page was not always displayed. This
problem has
been corrected.
o When a domain admin impersonates a user,
the
default domain is now supplied if it is
omitted
in the given user email address.
o The Thickbox Javascript code was modified
to work
around a problem with Internet Explorer 8
so that
popup windows are properly displayed.
o The nightly batch job on OpenVMS no longer
tries to
truncate the discard index files, which are
now ISAM
files.
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AsItHappens 0.55
AsItHappens is a real-time network statistics collector
and grapher written in Java and published under GPL. It
uses SNMP and ICMP to collect data from devices over a
network and displays graphs of network response,
bandwidth, processor and memory usage, Cisco NBAR and
Netflow. In addition, AsItHappens can graphically display
flow information from a tcpdump file.
AsItHappens 0.55 has a new feature called "OID" which
allows graphing arbitrary OID values, and needs Java6.
Thierry USO monitored the processor temperature of his
rx1620 with SMH SNMP agents and AsItHappens and used this
new feature to display a graph.
http://vmsfree.ouvaton.org/free/images/aihoid.jpg
For more information and to download AsItHappens for
OpenVMS.
http://vmsfree.ouvaton.org/freen/index.php?s=asithappens
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MULTINET PATCHES
ECO: FTP-020_A053
Description: Correct a problem with a stale status
value
Release date: 4-AUG-2009
Ranking: 3
Max ranking: 3
Versions: V5.3A
Requisites:
ftp://ftp.multinet.process.com/patches/multinet053/ftp-020_a053.zip
ECO: NAMED-010_A053
Description: BIND update to 9.6.1-p1 and
miscellaneous fixes
Release date: 13-AUG-2009
Ranking: 1
Max ranking: 0
Versions: V5.3A,V5.2A
Requisites:
ftp://ftp.multinet.process.com/patches/multinet053/named-010_a053.zip
ECO: FILTER_SERVER-030_A053
Description: Added tuning parameters to help prevent
RWMBX
Release date: 14-AUG-2009
Ranking: 3
Max ranking: 3
Versions: V5.3A
Requisites:
ftp://ftp.multinet.process.com/patches/multinet053/filter_server-030_a053.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/V7.3-2
VMS82A_IPC-V0400 Rating: INSTALL_1
VMS82A_SHADOWING-V0300 Rating: INSTALL_2
VMS82A_TDF-V0300 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS82A_PTHREAD-V0400 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS82A_SYS-V1300 Rating: INSTALL_1
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.2/
VMS83A_SYS-V1200 Rating: INSTALL_1 - on HOLD
VMS83A_PTHREAD-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS83A_TDF-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/alpha/V8.3/
VMS821I_SHADOWING-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_2
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.2-1/
VMS83I_IPMIAPI-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS83I_SHADOWING-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_1
VMS83I_SYS-V1000 Rating: INSTALL_1
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.3/
VMS831H1I_IPMIAPI-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS831H1I_ICAP-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS831H1I_TDF-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS831H1I_SHADOWING-V0200 Rating: INSTALL_2
VMS831H1I_PTHREAD-V0100 Rating: INSTALL_3
VMS831H1I_SYS-V0500 Rating: INSTALL_1
VMS831H1I_SYS-V0600 Rating: INSTALL_1
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/i64/V8.3-1/
HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS V5.6 Update ECO 4
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/alpha/DEC-AXPVMS-TCPIP-V0506-9ECO4-1.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/alpha/DEC-AXPVMS-TCPIP-V0506-9ECO4-1.ZIPEXE
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/i64/HP-I64VMS-TCPIP-V0506-9ECO4-1.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/layered_products/i64/HP-I64VMS-TCPIP-V0506-9ECO4-1.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/V6.2
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/i64/V8.3-1H1/I64_V831H1I_MASTER_ECO_LIST.txt
ftp://ftp.itrc.hp.com/openvms_patches/vax/V7.3/VAX_V73_MASTER_ECO_LIST.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
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://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1
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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