DEC MUMPS tutorial

[Praphul Menon_1]

Hi,
I wanted pointers to resources/URLs with tutorials on DSM (Digital Standard MUMPS). Also, i would be glad to hear about experiences in migrating DSM from VMS to Linux.

warm regards

[Keith Cayemberg]

Hi Praphul,

I have no personal experience with MUMPS but I have collected a number of useful links concerning MUMPS and OpenVMS. Please see the attached HTML File.

Cheers!

Keith Cayemberg
IBM Business Services - Hanover, Germany

[Dan Herron]

Go to WWW.GOOGLE.COM and search on the the kewords "Digital" and "MUMPS" and you will have over 19,000 references from which to choose!

Good luck!

[Tom O'Toole]

www.intersystems.com. Migrating to linux you would most likely be ending up on the CACHE database, which can be downloaded from this site for free (for personal use).

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

PM,

I wrote some notes when reading the manuals.
It's in the form of faq.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

PM,

Most important remark is that you need AIJ to have a fault tolerant DSM usage.

Wim
(we lost data of 30 seconds with BIJ only)

[Cass Witkowski]

DSM only runs on OpenVMS.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

It ran also on Ultrix and DEC OSF.
http://www.sysworks.com.au/disk$vaxdocsep951/decw$book/dy6baa12.p12.decw$book

The history
http://math-cs.cns.uni.edu/~okane/cgi-bin/newpres/mumps.history/history.html

and I think Caché runs on multiple platforms. But I can not confirm if it is 100% compatible.

W

[Jesse Chambless]

DSM will not run on Linux. It is specifically for the VAX/Alpha platform. Cache v 5.x.x runs on Linux. It is an object oriented Mumps product from Intersystems Corporation. It is available with a free download from www.intersys.com. This is a single user version.

[Ian Miller.]

I'm surprised noone said why downgrade to linux?

[Bob Blunt]

PM, as others have mentioned, DSM is VAX and Alpha "specific." However, there are several derivations of MUMPS that are multi-platform. One I've seen is simply called "M." I've seen it used in DSM environments and runs on WinTel at least, I believe.

Cache is Intersystem's replacement for DSM and it is multiplatform, multiple O/S. Most of the Digital-centric hooks, bells and whistles are gone. Based on conversations with my DSM customers, Cache isn't a direct, totally upward compatible replacement and requires customization and migration when moving from DSM to Cache.

There are also other derivitive Mumps offerings from other vendors that have been used to develop rather unique, non-medical solutions.