The new king of VMS

[Antoniov.]

The VMS forum has new King :-)
Ian Miller from UK reached the top.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/publicProfile.do?userId=BR754460&forumId=1
We are proud he shares his knowledge with us.
Congratulation Ian for your good work!


Based on Procura stats
http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/ http://www.hpux.ws/merijn/
you can see VMS is Worlwidely-circulated; Gurus live in UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Nederland, Belgium, Australia, India and other contries.
Dear VMS user,
this forum give you always a solution: we are breeding many bunnies!

I remember you some VMS guru:
Ian Miller, from UK, VMS fanatic, the best system admin over the world.
Martin P.J. Zinser, from USA, (born in Germany?), expert of Linux too.
Antoniov, from Italy, knows something about windows too.
Uwe Zessin, from Germany, the big expert of storage.
Willem Grooters, from Nederland; he can build a secure vms web system.
Jan van den Ende, from Nederlad, has full vms certifications.
Wim Van den Wyngaert, from Belgium, keeps vms stable on hundreds of systems.
John Gillings, from Australia, accreditated system engineer.
Hein van den Heuvel, from USA (born in Nederland?), the big expert of RMS, he knows unix too.

The newbies:
Volker Halle, from Germany, another vms fan.
Bojan Nemec, from Slovenia, you can bet he'll reach the top of vms rank.
Kris Clippeleyr, from Belgium, he'll soon gain his 1.st hat.

Don't forget:
Guy Peleg from Israel.
Gerard Labadie, from France.
Brad McCusker, from USA, HP employer.
Martin Vorlaender, from Germany.

Dear reader,
when you post your congratulation, we are pleased if you add some information about yourself.

Thank You

[Antoniov.]

Congratulation Ian :-)

Antonio Vigliotti, from Turin (Italy), the city of XX olympics winter games in 2006!
I'm 45 year old, 1 wife, 1 daughter, 1 cat.
Playing with VMS from 1990.

[Bojan Nemec]

Congratulations Ian!

Bojan Nemec from Nova Gorica (Slovenia). I'm 45 years old, one wife and daughter. Working (and playing) with VMS from 1985.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Congrat Ian.

Wim, 1963, working with VMS since 1986, 1 wife, no kids. Also MPE from 84 till 99, Unixes from 90 till 95. Also DB's.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Btw : you passed over Martin in the VMS top 10. So congratulations again with your first place.

Wim

[Willem Grooters]

*A humble VMS developer and system manager)

Oh great Oracle
Share your wisdom witrh us, unworthy .
What can we do to keep our Systems up and running?

(The Oracle)
Ask Ian Miller.

Willem

(I hope this counts as a congratulatgion ;)

Hope to see uou in Nashua next year and have some beers again.

[Willem Grooters]

Oh yes.
Abou myself:

* edition 1952
* educated as a primary school teacher, switched to IT (COBOL), first job on PDP11-70 on RSTS/E
* Started VMS in 1984: COBOL, PASCAL, MACRO32 (a bit) and FORTRAN.
* Done all stuff: programming, operations, system managerment, system programming, analysis....
* 1995 forced into a role that did NOT involve VMS (system / software architecture) so I actuallty missed the Alpha era - for a major part
* Intp VMS again in 2000 and got another employer because of that. Since then running my own system doing al kinds of Internet related stuf.

* wife (who dosn't like me sitting too much behind my machine) , daugter of 18 and son of 16.

ThThThThats all folks.

Willem

[Kris Clippeleyr]

To Ian,

Congratulations reaching the 2000 points milestone. I learned a lot just be reading your answers. Keep on foruming.


To Antonio,
I'm truely sorry for spoiling the fun here, but Ian just crossed the 2000 points milestone, and still has a little less than 500 points to go. I have no doubt he will accomplish that very soon.

About me,
Born in Belgium, in 1957. Married with the love of my life; we have 2 great sons (19 & 17 years old).
Rolled into VMS by chance in 1986. Stayed there ever since. Programmer till 1995, system manager & VMS teacher from then on. Into open source stuff lately (porting to VMS).

Greetz,

Kris

[Antoniov.]

Kris,
I'm sure Ian'll soon reach king crown (2,500 pts) and I guess we'll be allbodies happies to reply our congratulation to him. In my mind, Ian is already a king even he has not the crown picture near his name (due he answers only to VMS questions).

However I proposed this thread to known ourself too. I'm convinced the VMS comunity here is a great family of VMS lovers.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Lokesh_2]

Hi Ian,

Congratulations from me too!! Thanks for all your help.

About me:
Born Feb-1978 in India
Working as VMS administrator since July 2000.
Enjoying my personal life with my wife and 1.5yr old son in Bangalore,India.

Best wishes,
Lokesh Jain

[labadie_1]

Congratulations Ian !

Gerard, 1959, Vms since 1986, RT11 and RSX before, only one wife :-), only one son, karting fanatic

[Ian Miller. · Accepted solution]

I only hope I can live up to all this praise :-) I think I only reached the top as Martin has been quiet for over a month - I expect he is busy with his real job.

As I've said before I find time spend here reading and writing answers very rewarding.

I'm a 43 year old VMS fanatic who has only been doing VMS since 1987 so am a bit of a newboy compared to some around here :-) I used to do VMS system programming as well as system management but my current job is does not offically include programming so I do it at home on my Digital PWS 433 (VMS V7.3-2). I'm married (only 21 years so far) with two children (12 & 10) and a budgie.

I would certainly like to go to the bootcamp in Nashua in March 2005 and will be at the TUD event in London in October.

[Jan van den Ende]

Congratulatons Ian!

It looks like I am the oldest so far: 27 januari 1951.
Living in the city where the original Dutch liberation (from the Spaniards) began april 1, 1572. Celebrated quite fervently each year.
With more enthousiasm than talent I enjoy playing bridge, dancing (the 'classical' 10 dances) playing snooker and skiing (in that order).
Darling wife, one son 25 years nearly graduated Accountant, on daughter 21 years studying English.
Technical University degree in chemical engeneering, teaching degree chemistry-physics-mathematics.
Turned to IT in 1981, programmer on ICL mainframe. VMS since 1982, full time since 1983. Since 1987 working for a software company, since then a "software nomad". Last assignment: 6 months "to maintain the VMS systems while the apps are migrated to Unix"
Well, that was 1995, and ... "in about one year all apps will be migrayed to Tru84 or (... M$ ...)". Bets are that this year will also last more than 12 months.

Seeing what we do so 'easily', and others struggling with problems we do not even notice as problematic, and being rather outspoken, I have become known as a "VMS Prophet", and I am rather proud of that!.

Well, this will have to do for now.

Jan

[labadie_1]

Ian

What is that TUD event in October ?

Can you give some details ?

Thanks

Gerard

[labadie_1]

Jan

I notice that you work on an OS I have discovered this morning: TRU84

:-)

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Antonio,

You forgot Lockesh in your Guru part. He should have the pointy hat within weeks (or hours). He's the youngster among the top-10.

Wim

[Anton van Ruitenbeek]

Concratulations Ian,

I'm working at a 24 hr site and it looks like this costumer doesn't want to keep this. They are migrating to MS and Ux and upgrade software online ?
Well, the user is starting to know that sometimes connections aren't working, so why give him 100%, 95% should be fair enough.
(This is not my opinion :-(( )

AvR

[Jan van den Ende]

Gerard,

--- Tru84:
it IS monday morning, that means my fingers are not completely up to their task, and my eyes were not yet fully awake during the quick scan for obvious errors.

--- I do not know about the London TUD, but there _ARE_ Technical Update Days in Nederland:
11-12-13 october.
I guess the contents will be very similar.
This year's TUD are integrated in HPDuchworld, so maybe they are a little bit less obvious.
www.hpdutchworld.nl for more info.
If you would be interested, I will ask our VMS ambassador to provide you with an "Invitation", which gives free entrance.
(of course you will have to provide your hotel costs yourself!).
Let me know.

Jan

[labadie_1]

Jan

there was no offence intended, and a smiley at the end. I apologize if it hurted you.

Thanks for the offer, but I think it is simpler for me to go to London (even if a dutchman from Breda is in my family :-).

I looked at
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/events/EXTERNALCALENDARBYDATE.HTML

but have not found a detailed program of any of these events :-(

[Jan van den Ende]

Gerard,

well, I didn't even realise that I might have sounded offended. Of course not! If I get the chance to make some harmless fun, I cannot resist eighther!

Hey man, after 20 years in IT, mostly in system (and user!) management, would you still think I could be that easily hurt??
I don't think anyone so sensitve will last long in such kind of job!!!
:-) :-)

Cheers,

have one on me!


jpe

[Ian Miller.]

See
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=705846

[Michelle Popejoy]

Congrats, Ian!

Unless I missed something, I'm the first to post in this topic who does not have a Y chromosome.

Born 1966 in Texas. Since lived in North Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona, and New York.

VMS since 1989. 2nd love (technical wise) StorageWorks. Independent Consultant for last 6 years.

0 husband. 1 daughter (17). 3 cats. 1 dog.

[Keith Parris]

Congratulations, Ian!

I've worked with VMS since 1983. 45 years old. I work as an engineer for HP Services, doing fly-and-fix work and consulting. I specialize in VMS, VMS Clusters, and Disaster Tolerance.

[Uwe Zessin]

Congratulations, Ian - good job.

---

My first login to a VAX/VMS V2.something system was in 1982 as a simple user. By that time I was working on PCB designs.

In 1986 I became system manager, because my precursor (with an Y-chromosome, so you're not the only female system manager, Michelle) changed jobs.

Over the next years I worked in several companies, but somehow I always managed to find those who later decided to phase out VMS. So I decided in 1996 that VMS would no longer be my "Plan A". Looking back at the actions of DEC and Compa I see that my decision was right.

I still do VMS - I am just back from a 4-day trip to a customer - but today it is one out of several topics I (can) handle.

[Mobeen_1]

My heartiest congrats to you Ian !! Its indeed a great achievement and i am sure you have many more milestones back of your mind...

About me :-
- I am Mobeen from Bangalore (India)
- I am BE in Comp Sci and also did some PG
Diplomas
- I am married and have twin sons who are
now 17 months old
- I started working on VMS from 1992 at
various levels in Development, Support,
systems admin and systems management
- I have worked at companies like Satutary
boards in Singapore, Reuters Asia (S'pore),
Micron Technologies (Singapore)
- I am now based in Bangalore after a lapse
of 9 yrs
- My other skills are TSM, AIX, Sybase & BMC