iSCSI and OpenVMS 8.4

Does anyone have any insight into how open the implementation will be - i.e. will it be fairly happy to talk to most storage vendor stuff out there? I know I'm a mere hobbyist but I'm seriously considering forking out for a DroboPro (the new releases will support iSCSI) to centralise all my storage needs, and would love to get it working with OpenVMS. Is this likely to work out? Sampsa

Need a graphics card that support 16:9 aspect ratio on an Alpha.

We have 4 D10s and a AS 800. Can I get modern graphics cards for the DS10s at least that supports 16:9 aspect ratio?

Carly update - revenge of the demon sheep

Some of you may find this amusing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/carly-fiorina-gets-the-de_n_565865.html Regards, David Mathog

Matt Madison and NEWSRDR

Does anyone have a current email address for Matt Madison, developer of NEWSRDR? I might be forced to move to an NNTP server which does authentication, at least for posting moderated articles (wearing my hat as co-moderator of sci.physics.research). I'm hoping Matt will make the corresponding changes to NEWSRDR. Alternatively, someone (a reader of comp.os.vms?) familiar with a) VMS, b) the NNTP protocol and c) the C programming language might be willing to do the community a favour of Matt doesn't. (Ideally, the BOOKREADER documentation would also be updated.) Anyone else

WASD software

Hello I know that this should go to another group, but I was wondering if anybody has the .exe files for 10.01 they could send me. I have tried many times to compile the source, but I get numerous errors (no object file found, variables undefined and a few others. Since I am not a programmer in any sense, I am totally lost. If anybody can help I would be thankful. OpenVMS 7.3 for VAX Tcpip services 5.3 Compaq C V6.4-005 I have SSL for VAX installed also

WRITE fails when record is greater than 255 chars

Hello All I am reading from a RELATIVE file from DCL and writing to a TEXT FILE (SEQUENTIAL). WRITE THE_FILE THE_REC The message I get it this: %DCL-W-TKNOVF, command element is too long - shorten And the output file is empty. How can I get around the limitation of THE_REC having to be less than 255 chars? Thanks!!

VMS SE contract position available in Indiana

No Sponsorship is available. Please NO Third Parties Position: Systems Engineer - VMS experience highly desired Location: Indiana 8 month contract position with a pay rate of $30.00 - $45.00 /hr depends on experience. General Comments Contract Systems Engineer position in Northwest Indiana. Duties include upgrading and maintaining VMS servers hosting webpage interfaces to users and data messaging to instrument, controllers and databases. Experience Requirements: - VB.NET - ASP - .NET - MySQL Experience Desired: - VMS Operating system - C - C++ No Sponsorship i

Upcoming DNS changes: May 5th 2010

Seems that the root servers will all be changed by May 5th to respond with largher packets that includes some digital signature. You can test your infrastructure to ensure it can handle the larger packets. Instructions at: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/replysizetest I have tested the TCPIP Services Alpha 5.6 and VAX 5.3 and both seem to report they can handle 4093 byte responses to DNS requests.

Prevent "SET PROMPT"

I have a development system, where I have the prompt set to DEV$. So that the users know they are in a development environment. Is there a way to stop the users from changing that prompt, either via their own personal login commands or by them simply typing "SET PROMPT = "Whatever" ?

[TCPIP V5.6] What version?

I just noted: $ ucx sh ver HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 5 on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V8.3 $ ssh "-V" dsa0:[sys0.syscommon.][sysexe]tcpip$ssh_ssh2.exe: SSH Secure Shell OpenVMS (V5.5) 3.2.0 on COMPAQ Professional Workstation - VMS V8.3 Is SSH wrongly configured or simply undecided if V5.5 or V5.6 is correct? jfc -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGST�GER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail Peter@LANGSTOeGER.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist

replacement for the old lk201-xx keyboard and mouse

hello Like most of my DEC stuff, most things are failing and replacements are needed. One such item is the good lk201 keyboards. Maybe my memory is going, but I recall there is/was an adapter that would let you connect a regular pc keyboard to DEC equipment. Is there such a item, and what about a replacement for the DEC mouse (the round one). tks

My HobbyistCluster Starlet No. 77 is formed

Hi VMS-Nerds, I've formed a HobbyistCluster called "VAXIMA's Starlet No. 77 Cluster" is formed: 1. Hostsystem HORSE.MARWAY.ORG (a KA47-A with 50 MHz Mariah CPU, 24M of Main Memory, 1.05G boot disk and about 4.3G diskspace. Compilers: COBOL, Pascal, Basic Interpreter and Compiler, DECC (CC), Fortran 77, CXX (C++ Compiler) and VAX Macro Assembler Installed: NOTES 2. Hostsystem IVANA.marway.org (a PWS433au EV56 DECchip 21164 with 433 MHz, 2M secondary CPU cache and about 384M of Main Memory and two DEC RZ1BB SCSI Disks -- Installed Compilers and Interpreters:

Read MS Excel (binary, no CSV) file on OpenVMS?

I had a customer inquiry about being able to read an Excel binary file (not CSV) on OpenVMS. I Googled to see what was out there but didn't see if anything actually existed - anybody do this and want to share? Thanks!

problem with DECwindows

Hello Trying to get DECwindows to run on the following config: VAX 4000-VLC 24megs ram VMS 5.5-2H4 I loaded the dw-motif license and loaded decwindows ver 1.0. I installed the entire kit which included the 75 and 100 inch fonts. I deleted the following line from systartup_v5.com $ define decw$ignore_decwindows true. Rebooted the system but no decwindows login. When I do a show log decw* I get the following "DECW$SERVER_MAIN_KB_UPDOWN" = "TRUE" "DECW$SESSIONCOM" = "sys$manager:decw$startsm.com" "DECW$SESSIONINIT" = "run sys$system:decw$wsinit" "DECW$SESSIONMAIN" = "run s

Multinet SSH2 on VAX/VMS 7.3

I've googled for the error I'm getting but not much luck. I get a fatal error when attempting to create host keys. Any ideas? $ multinet sshkeygen /ssh2 /host FATAL: Error reading config file ssh2_dir:ssh2_config SERVER-CONFIG>show /full ssh Service "SSH": INIT() = Merge_Image Program = "MULTINET:LOADABLE_SSH_CONTROL" Priority = 5 Parameters = "enable-ssh2" "enable-ssh1" Directory MULTINET_SPECIFIC_ROOT:[MULTINET.SSH2] HOSTKEYS.DIR;1 KNOWNHOSTS.DIR;1 SSH2_CONFIG.;1 SSHD2_CONFIG.;1

Connect OpenVMS Bootcamp - Call For Papers - closing 1 June 2010

Check out the topics for which we are looking for sessions. Review the sessions some of your friends have already submitted. http://bit.ly/9KKXIi Looking for a discount to Bootcamp? Speakers get a $700 discount! We look forward to seeing you there in front of everyone else. Thanks, Bill. Bill Pedersen CCSS - Computer Consulting System Services 211 Ruth Drive Gaffney, SC 29341 Telephone: 864-490-8863 Mobile: 408-892-5204 Facsimile: 866-394-9148 www: www.ccsscorp.com Skype Name: william.a.pedersen LinkedIn Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/billpedersen

Messages disappearing from terminal queue

OpenVMS V7.3-2 I have a detached process writing all messages to terminal queue and files. But some messages found in the files are not appearing in the log of the terminal queue. The logger is a Panasonic KX-P1624 tractor feed. There is no evidence of mechanical failure. This can happen at low message volume with seconds between short messages, so I can't blame queue overflow. The terminal queue is defined as: Terminal queue EESLOG1, idle, on EESL::LTA209:, mounted form ERROR /AUTOSTART_ON=(EESL::LTA209:) /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FORM=ERROR) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM]

OT: Intel and HP

Some tidbits from Intel's web site and financial reports: IA64 is lumped with 8086 server processors such as Nehalem. ("Data Center Group") so its financial performance can't be obtained. 21% of net revenue at Intel comes from HP. 17% from Dell. No other customer generates more than 10% of net revenues. Intel has no problem mentioning Nehalem going to 32nm process (as well as other processors), but no mention of Itanium having just launched Tukwila. In the "roadmap" of processors. IA64 is called "Mission Critical". Nehalem is "Expandable". The 32nm version of Nehalem (We

ABS Tape Library errors

Long time since I posted here last... I have an OpenVMS/Alpha Cluster v7.3-2 with a node having a TL892 library. I use an old version of ABS (v3.?) (I know, much newer but this has worked for years so why change it if it was not broken?). In past couple weeks I have noticed these errors that break the backup process. It should be noted that it ***DOES*** work OK (from logs anyway) for 8 entire disks before getting this error in my monthly archive job: Operation #9 starting at 9-APR-2010 19:36:10 Data Movement Type: UNKNOWN MOVEMENT TYPE Incremental Level: Full Op

help shed some IA64 light...

Threaded application is using LIB$GET_VM/LIB$FREE_VM to allocate and deallocate memory between threads. The allocation is populated with data and then INSQTI'd into a queue. Another thread then REMQHI's a packet, processes it, and deallocates the memory. I built a jacket about the LIB$GET_VM/LIB$FREE_VM to insure that the allocation is NOT in the thread stack region of any of the threads. I keep getting %SYSTEM-F-ROPRAND, reserved operand fault at PC=FFFFFFFF841F46C2, PS=0000001B SDA says 841F46C2 is in LIBRTL and the code for it is: { .mib LIBRTL+001C6

AlphaServer 1200 and Galaxy

Yes I know that the Alpha Server 5/400 with two cpu's and 1.5 GB memory is officially not supported to run two partitions. However it supports the galaxy srm command and the secondary console (P01>>>) shows up on the second COM port. Question : is it possible to run two partitions on the AS 1200 (for hobbyist reasons and curiosity ;-)? Hans

Linker Question: Collect option

I have a program which has about 100 separate modules. Each module puts a small amount of data (16 bytes) into psect FOO. I want to find the start and end of the data. I create an entry point FOO_START when psect FOO is first defined. To find the ending address, I create a second psect FOO_END_PSECT, with an entry point FOO_END in it. Nothing else goes into FOO_END_PSECT, it has length 0. In a linker options file I put the following: psect=foo,con,octa,nowrt,noexe psect=foo_end_psect,con,octa,nowrt,noexe collect = fooCluster,foo,foo_end_psect It works...sort of. The linker

Txn Isolation levels Rdb to 11g

Hi, Having for many years been spoilt with the beauty and simplicity of Rdb's default SERIALIZABLE isolation level I have to say that I was quite surprised to find the default, and most common, 11g option to be READ COMMITTED. So I looked around the web at sites such as: - http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-nov/o65asktom.html and was scratching my head at what strategy Rdb people who've moved to Orrible Oracle were deploying. My personal preference would be that all queries (get data for display/report) should be READ ONLY transactions (can't snap errors notwit

SLRN?

Hello, the newsreader SLRN was once available for VMS. The newer releases are not. Thus, has anyone tried to adapt it to OpenVMS? Although the author has no longer access to a OpenVMS system he is willing to incoroprate any patches to make it work again. SLANG compiles and builds all right. But not SLRN :-( Regards, Christoph Gartmann -- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Phone : +49-761-5108-464 Fax: -80464 Immunbiologie Postfach 1169 Internet: gartmann@immunbio dot mpg dot de D-79011 Freiburg, Germany http://www.immunbio.mpg.de/home/m

ODBC driver on VMS ?

Hi. On the "Python for VMS" site, on the "History, what's new" page ("http://www.vmspython.org/History") it says : "Update UnixODBC, for Python support, start a Rdb driver." I have asked on the specific forum on that site about this, but didn't get any good (as far as I can tell) answer so far. Is there anything like "ODBC drivers" that runs on VMS ?? The page also points to this page : "http://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/" but I can not find anything VMS related there. I can't see how this module in the specific VMS port of Python is ment to be used (on VMS)...