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Welcome to V13 of the OpenVMS Technical Journal. It is indeed a great pleasure in bringing this
edition of the Technical Journal to all the VMS enthusiasts around the world.
We trust that you will find all the articles informative and useful.
In this version you will find many articles that will interest you, for example,
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
- 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
- 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.
We 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 please click here.
Thank you for your continued support,
and a big thanks to all the authors who contributed for this edition.
Editor
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Article Title: OpenVMS I64 TIE Internals: Emulating Alpha Control
Instructions -
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Article Abstract:
This article is intended as the first in a series of articles detailing as
finely as possible the internals of the Translated Image Environment for OpenVMS
I64.
This particular article covers the emulation of Alpha control instructions. It
describes both local and non-local jumps as well as emulated and translated
branches.
Author Bio:
Tim Sneddon is currently employed at Kednos Enterprises, producers of the PL/I
compilers for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha and Tru64 UNIX. He has been involved
intimately in the development of the AEST and TIE support for PL/I software. He
is also the developer/maintainer of Kednos' Language Integration Toolkit.
Prior to Kednos Tim worked for Reynolds & Reynolds Pty. Ltd. as a Systems
Programmer.
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Article Title: Trouble-shooting iCAP (Instant Capacity) on OpenVMS -
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Article Abstract:
This white paper outlines how HP OpenVMS is embracing the utility pricing
solutions like iCAP/TiCAP/GiCAP and provides information on how to address
issues in configuring iCAP and dependent products.
The following topics are covered:
- An introduction to the utility pricing solutions offered from HP
- Configuration of iCAP and Dependent software on HP Integrity servers
- Troubleshooting
- Quick Check
- ICAP_SERVER does not start on reboot of a partition in a complex
- iCAP command does not work in a mixed environment due to HP-UX OS
upgrade
- HTTP Error (500 Internal Server Error)
Author Bio:
Abu Sarkar- after completion of B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering, Abu
joined HP as a fresher in July, 2005. Worked on various OpenVMS System
Management Products like SNMP based web-agents (specially Storage Agent),
performance monitoring and analyzing tool ECP (Enterprise Capacity Planner &
Analyzer), SMH (System Management Homepage), WBEM based Indication Providers and
VM Provider. Currently working as an engineer in gWLM (Global Work Load
Manager), iCAP (Instant Capacity) and pursuing his MS in Software Engineering.
A fitness addict, practices SHOTOKAN, likes swimming, plays squash, chess
and sudoku, apart from his regular workouts; spends most of his time in office
and lives in Bangalore alone, just next to the office campus.
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Article Title: A Starlet is Born: New Options for VAX and Alpha
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Article Abstract: Migration Specialties International, has teamed up with
a number of partners to deliver its own suite of software-based VAX and Alpha
hardware emulators. For this suite of emulators, we’ve defined an underlying
architecture that will allow us to add different emulated systems and options to
the suite with an unprecedented degree of flexibility. This article, written by
the lead architect, will focus on the internal architecture designed to support
these new emulators.
Author Bio: Based in the Netherlands, Camiel
Vanderhoeven is a relative newcomer to OpenVMS. Introduced to the operating
system as old as he is in 2003, it has rapidly become the favorite on his list.
So much so, that he set out to write the only open-source AlphaServer emulator
capable of running OpenVMS on a laptop, the ES40 Emulator. Camiel delivered
presentations about the ES40 Emulator at the 2008 VMS bootcamp, and at Community
Connect Europe. In January 2009, Camiel started his own consulting business
around VMS, Camicom SSC, in which capacity he is now developing a series of new
VAX and AlphaServer emulators for Migration Specialties International.
Camiel is married to Martha, and
they are expecting their first child. Rumors that they are planning to name
their child Victoria Madeleine Samantha or Victor Mark Samuel are neither denied
nor confirmed.
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Article Title: The MultiNet Intrusion Prevention System-
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Article Abstract:
MultiNet is a TCP/IP network stack for OpenVMS which runs on all OpenVMS
hardware platforms. It was initially created by TGV Inc as a VAX/VMS port of the
BSD Unix TCP/IP stack, and has for the past 12 years been owned and enhanced by
Process Software LLC.
Author Bio: Jeremy Begg is the owner of VSM Software Services Pty Ltd,
which he started in 1989. He has been using and maintaining OpenVMS computer
systems since 1980 in Education, Government and Commercial/Industrial
installations and his experience covers the range of occupations from Operator
to Systems Manager and Systems Programmer. At the time of writing, VSM Software
Services Pty Ltd provides OpenVMS support to a number of large corporate
businesses; operates an OpenVMS-based web hosting and email hosting/filtering
service; and supports the Process Software range of products on behalf of their
regional distributor.
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Article Title: OpenVMS and Perl- a Powerful Match -
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Article Abstract:
The article gives a wealth of examples concerning the use of Perl in an OpenVMS
environment. Its purpose is not to give complete recipes to solve specific
problems but to show the benefits which can result from using Perl in a VMS
shop.
Author Bio:
The author started working with VMS in 1991 and since then
uses VMS almost exclusively for everything he does. He collects PDP-11-,
VAX- and PDP-11-systems and runs a vintage computer center with a 16
node CI-cluster consisting of many VAX-7000, -6000, -8xx0 etc.
Occasionally he still does VMS consulting, but VMS systems are getting
rare in Germany.
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Article Title: Performance Management for OpenVMS Systems -
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Article Abstract:
HP’s OpenVMS platform is typically used to host mission critical applications
with stringent service level agreements – down time is definitely not an option.
SightLine Systems has been supporting VAX and OpenVMS systems for 20 years, and
has developed leading edge systems, purpose built for OpenVMS, for performance
and capacity planning, to ensure that OpenVMS systems are always running at peak
performance.
Author Bio:
Jeff Maffe is currently Vice President of Sales for SightLine Systems. He has
spent 20 years in technical sales with companies like Sprint, Telcordia, Adtran
and Lucent.
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Article Title: Adding Physical CD support to the SIMH VAX - » HTML,
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Article Abstract:
Many sites could benefit from moving to emulated hardware but cannot justify the
expense of established commercial emulators. But open-source solutions often
lack some features needed to get the most out of the emulated environment. The
author was asked to extend the capabilities of the SIMH open source VAX
simulator by allowing direct access of host CD drives.
Author Bio:
Michael Duffy is the author of "Getting Started with OpenVMS" (Digital Press)
and has been an OpenVMS proponent for more than 20 years. Duffy is experienced
in Software Engineering, System and Network Management, and Support
Management for a variety of platforms. He is currently employed as a support
engineer for the Apple iPhone.
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