RE : OpenVMS Newbies

[Charles Ooi Chia Lun]

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.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

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

Wim

[David B Sneddon]

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

[Antoniov.]

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

Antonio Vigliotti

[Charles Ooi Chia Lun]

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..

[Antoniov.]

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

[Ian Miller.]

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

[Anton van Ruitenbeek]

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

[Mobeen_1]

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

[Ian Miller.]

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