topic Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies in Operating System - OpenVMS

RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Charles Ooi Chia Lun — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:23:03 GMT

Hi all, I'm a new to OpenVMS . I'm very keen to explore and learn more on OpenVms. Anyone got Web based training or Video training that talks about OpenVms Fundamental, Essential for established Systems and Installation, Configuration and Customizations that can provide me hands-on training? Your help shall be appreciated. Thank you so much. Kindly advise.

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:56:14 GMT

Check this one
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=833430

Wim

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

David B Sneddon — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:58:06 GMT

Charles,

Welcome to OpenVMS...

Is this work or home related?
Do you already have a system or access to a system?

Some starting points:

http://www.openvmshobbyist.org/
http://deathrow.vistech.net/
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/

If you can provide some more details we can provide
more pointers.

Regards
Dave

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Antoniov. — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:36:07 GMT

Charles,
Warm welcom to vms world.
Look at Wim's link and ask us for every kind of question.

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Charles Ooi Chia Lun — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:09:58 GMT

Hi Wim, David and Antonioz, Thank you very much for your kind suggestions. actually right now i've a project which require me to install on HP alphaserver ES80, so i'll need to install VmS7.3-2 on it. , however i've 0% knowledge about this..., i'm Microsoft user all the while..

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Antoniov. — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 05:22:45 GMT

Hi Charles,
installation of vms is almost simple: insert vms cd-rom, boot from it and follows instructions.
However ES80 is a very important system so I guess you have to install and/or configure some other software, e.g. tcp/ip. This is a bit more complicated.
The first difference between vms and windows you meet is the interface. Vms is like old msdos (same command are the same e.g. dir, copy o ren).
For a windows guy in my mind the first step is using decwindows interface.
Don't forget help command is your firend.

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Ian Miller. — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:16:22 GMT

Read the excellent documentation supplied with VMS. The Installation and Upgrade Manual is a step by step guide.

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Anton van Ruitenbeek — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:35:26 GMT

Charles,

Your company has to watch out.
If you are infected with the VMS virus, normaly you never go back to where you came from.
And yes, all I've learned is from HELP. I never got a course for VMS. I started with VMS and later on there came the other OSes. I did get courses for M$ Windows (and a lot of new flavors) difference Unix variants, but never for VMS. Now I'm using it for over 20 years and manage difference systems which never go down. You know, real 99.999999% uptime. And as you can read in the thread 'Uptime', we manage well.

AvR

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Mobeen_1 — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:58:20 GMT

Charles,
A Warm welcome to the VMS world from all of us here !

The following website provides some training on VMS, this is slightly different from others as, they will also provide you with a login to their VMS system and you can telnet into their VMS system and practise :)

http://www.ccsscorp.com/

regards
Mobeen

Re: RE : OpenVMS Newbies

Ian Miller. — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:31:21 GMT

See also the VMS FAQ for lots of useful info.
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/faq