Updated VMS information

[Sue Skonetski]

Dear Folks

It is my pleasure to send out this weeks updated VMS information or as one of the engineers calls is Sue's News. So here is what we have this week.

Have a great weekend.

Warm Regards,
Sue


1.0 Announcements from VMS Engineering:
1.1 Announcing HP OpenView Performance Agent Evaluation Downloads for OpenVMS
1.2 OpenVMS Freeware Submission
1.3 NEW WHITEPAPER - HBVS AND ORACLE 9iRAC
1.4 Technical Journal update

2.0 Events:
2.1 HP AND INTEL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
2.2 OpenVMS Technical Update - Dublin
2.3 MONTREAL/Quebec Technical Update
2.4 OpenVMS Boot Camp

3.0 In The Press

4.0 Sue's Favorites
4.1 Web sites connecting to the movie TRON and our impact (PDP-10)
4.2 Archives for VAX to Alpha Porting manuals
4.3 Web site for Data Conversion company that looked cool

5.0 Speaking of Digital
5.1 Event honoring Ken Olson in June
5.2 Digital Reunion in PA

6.0 From our Partners
6.1 Attunity Announces Support for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers

7.0 Jobs
7.1 Job in Florida


1. Announcements from VMS Engineering:

1.1 Announcing HP OpenView Performance Agent Evaluation Downloads for OpenVMS

Beta Test Version 1.0 Kits for HP OpenView Performance Agent (OVPA) are now available for OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers and AlphaServer systems. OVPA is the collection, logging, and alarming component of the OpenView Performance family. It provides low overhead, continuous collection and logging of more than 300 global, process, application and system metrics, sophisticated, user definable alarming capabilities and Integration with OpenView Operations and Network Node Manager and the OpenView Performance Manager (OVPM.)
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ovpa/

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1.2
The OpenVMS Freeware submission deadline is: 1 May 2006 - The Freeware submission information and guidelines are
available at:
http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/freeware/

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1.3
NEW WHITEPAPER - HBVS AND ORACLE 9iRAC
Disaster Tolerance Proof of Concept: OpenVMS Host-Based Volume Shadowing and Oracle 9i RAC over Extended distances,' demonstrates how OpenVMS Host-Base Volume Shadowing (HBVS), along with Oracle9i RAC, as well as the connectivity technology from LightSand and Digital Networks, ensures high availability and data integrity, over a variety of significant distances, including those formally supported by OpenVMS Clusters. http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/c00602733.pdf

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1.4
Technical Journal Update http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/index.html
Current Status - Views to day 15,580
Next Issue out in June 2006
Please submit your call for participation prior to March 25th via the web at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/cfp.html
All articles are due May 15

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2.0 Events:

2.1 HP AND INTEL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Dates and Locations:
Dallas, Texas April 4-6, 2006
Seattle, WA June 13-15, 2006
Peabody (Boston), MA August 22-24, 2006
Atlanta, GA October, 2006 - TBD
The total value of the many benefits of the HP and Intel
Developer Workshop is valued at over $20,000!
Register now for the HP-UX 11i, Red Hat Linux (64-bit), OpenVMS or Windows Server 2003 tracks. http://www.hp.com/go/itaniumdeveloperworkshops

2.2 OpenVMS Technical Update - Dublin
6th April 2006
Dublin, Ireland
HP-Interex Seminar - OpenVMS Technical Update - 6th April 2006
Venue: Intel, IR5 Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip. Programme can be found at http://www.hp-interex.ie/apr06/pgm.pdf

2.3 MONTREAL/Quebec (sorry I can not translate into French at least not well, pardon moi svp) AREA TECHNICAL SEMINAR PLANNED FOR END OF APRIL Planning is under way for a spring technical seminar to be held in the Montreal area towards the end of April 2006. The one-day event will incorporate a new format containing topics on OpenVMS and UNIX. As with our previous seminars, the event will be hosted by Encompass Canada in collaboration with HP Canada. Please visit the Association’s Web site for up to date information as they become available: http://www.encompasscanada.com/

2.4 OpenVMS Advanced Technical Boot Camp - Week of May 21, limited to 200 Attendees under non-disclosure
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/symposium/index.html

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3.0 In The Press

http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug030906-story03.html - Transitive Gets Backing from Intel for Porting Product -
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=152195&src=0 -
Oracle Unveils Oracle(r) Rdb 7.2 for HP OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers and AlphaServer Systems
Delivers Enhanced Performance and Eases Transition to Low-cost HP Integrity Servers

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4.0 Sue's Favorites

4.1 Thanks to Kevin - This is an article about the making of the movie TRON, from way back in the early '80s. If you haven't seen it, you really should (keeping in mind when it was made).

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/16/tron_uk/

The part of the article that mentions DEC's PDP-10 is on the 4th page, close to the bottom. Here is the link ...

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/16/tron_uk/page4.html

Just thought it was interesting and thought you might enjoy it.
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4.2 Archives for VAX to Alpha Porting manuals http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/archived.html (thanks Hoff)

4.3 http://www.discinterchange.com/index.html Media & Data Conversion Specialists (they looked cool to me)

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5.0 - Speaking of Digital

5.1 On Saturday, June 17, 2006, a major event to honor Ken Olsen will take place in Boston to dedicate the "Ken Olsen Science Center" at Gordon College. This has been in the planning stages since last summer so hopefully I will be getting more details.
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5.2

Digital Reunion:

We are set for the first Digital Cherry Hill Area Reunion and I am so excited to see all the folks. Couples, Singles, spouses….Whatever !
Date: May 20th, 2006
Time: 4:00 to 7:00 PM (for those who need a drink to talk be there at 3:30) … I will be there !!!
Place: Coastline Restaurant www.coastlinerestaurantbar.com
Agenda: Be there at 4:00 mix and mingle and enjoy our time.
There will be no charge, just cost of your beverages and snacks. This will be very informal. The Coastline has great dinners if folks want to dine together later. I want to make it like it was when we had our little after work discussions. If you have pictures, please bring a few. Please pass this along to others as I am sure there are many folks who would like to attend. Only one Request: Please let me know who is coming as I want to give the Coastline a head-count. Sincerely, Wayne Gaskill 813-951-2752

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6.0 From our Partners:

6.1

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060227005207&newsLang=en

Attunity Announces Support for OpenVMS on HP Integrity Servers; Attunity's Innovative Integration Platform is Now Available On HP Integrity Servers Running OpenVMS

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2006--Attunity, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ATTU), the strategic Enterprise Integration Platform of choice for large organizations, has announced today the release of its Attunity Integration Suite (AIS) version 4.8.2, with support for the HP OpenVMS operating system running on HP Integrity servers.


Due to increased market demand, Attunity has ported its Integration Suite (AIS) of products (CONNECT, FEDERATE and STREAM) to OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers with support for version 8.2-1 of the operating system.

"Attunity's support for OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers provides yet another option for OpenVMS customers," said Itamar Ankorion, director of product management, Attunity. "These customers can now extend their OpenVMS investment and capitalize on the performance and cost benefits of HP Integrity servers. With the Attunity Integration Suite, they now have the tools that simplify data access and information integration for such initiatives as migration and business intelligence."

The availability of the Attunity Integration Suite on the 64-bit HP Integrity platform, running OpenVMS and powered by the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 microprocessor, provides access to RMS data sources, enables the use of new J2EE and .NET applications, provides Web Services and supports a variety of reporting tools. Many customers with mission critical applications running on VAX and/or AlphaServer platforms now have the choice to migrate to HP Integrity servers.

"HP has long supported Attunity's effort to provide connectivity for our OpenVMS platform," said Ann McQuaid, general manager of the OpenVMS group at HP. "The support for OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers will provide a comprehensive, strategic integration platform choice for customers who are looking to migrate."


7.0 Jobs


7.1 Baptist Health located in Jacksonville, FL with additional facilities in St. John (see this link for details
http://www.cerner.com/public/NewsReleases_1a.asp?id=257&cid=4416) and Nassau counties seeks a senior level OpenVMS professional to enhance its existing Technical Support Team. Our aggressive growth plans anticipate the approval of a soon to be added 6th medical facility in neighboring Clay county. Our current environment consists of ES45 clusters with EMA and EVA SAN attached storage supporting CERNER's Millennium and Classic clinical applications. We are currently in the process of replacing the ES45s with GS1280s and EVA storage. The project completion is anticipated to be by the end of April.

The candidate will be detailed oriented, able to multi-task, have advanced systems management level skills and able to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, to all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience with Microsoft desktop applications, project planning, problem solving, operating system upgrades, patch installs, documentation generation, and advanced DCL skills. In addition, experience with both EMA and EVA SAN storage management, utilizing both hardware mirror/stripe sets and HBVS with large storage farms running ORACLE is required. Experience in the CERNER environment with both HP TCP/IP and MultiNet is a plus. Any AS/400 experience would be an additional plus but not required. An attractive salary, benefits package and relocation assistance (if necessary) is available.

If interested, please respond to technicalsupport@bmcjax.com and include salary requirements in your cover letter. Resumes without a cover letter and salary requirements will not be considered. Deadline for application is March 31, 2006.