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Slow Progress...

Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 04:12 PM
Posted by Administrator

As many people know I had a difficult situation in late Summer 2017. My wife died. This placed a lot of new pressures on me besides all the emotional issues associated with a sudden and unexpected loss. As such things have been a bit quiet on the Open Source "front" for me. I actually shutdown my servers as I really had not extra cycles personally to apply to the various projects I had been working.

I am slowly getting things back in order. I some more work to do before I reboot the servers but I do believe that will happen in the next month or so. I have some other commitments I need to address first - I run the South Carolina FIRST Tech Challenge program and we just had the State Championship event about 10 days ago - so that is behind me. I am going to be judging at the South Super-Regional event in Athens, Georgia in late March and have a "FunFest" event in Greenville on 1 April... So, it is not like I am sitting on my hands...

I also have some medical issues to tend to. Nothing serious, although painful, just aggravating.

So check back... Or better yet join us on the monthly conference calls dealing with technical issues and progress in the Open Source on OpenVMS community.

Thanks.

Best,
Bill.

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OpenVMS Boot Camp Sessions...

Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 02:04 PM
Posted by Administrator

Here are the session titles and presenters for the OpenVMS Boot Camp scheduled for 25-28 September at the Radisson Nashua in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Session Title	Presenter Name
Keeping OpenVMS Environments Viable and Manageable for the Foreseeable Future	John Spitkovsky
WBEM and Insight Remote Support with OpenVMS	Michelle Popejoy
A New Secure Paradigm of Cloud Computing using OpenVMS	Tom Heim
A Ruby DCL-Emulator	Lorin Ricker
Agile Modern Development Tools for VMS	Dennis O'Brian
An introduction to the Ruby programming language and some cool things that you can do with it on OpenVMS	Brett Cameron and Lorin Ricker
Assessing Your OpenVMS Cluster Interconnect, Part 1: Health	Keith Parris
Assessing Your OpenVMS Cluster Interconnect, Part 2: Performance	Keith Parris
Auditing your OpenVMS system with PointAudit	Warren Kahle
Business Value of VMS	VSI and Partners
Code Generation on x86	John Reagan
Comparing Architectures: VAX, Alpha, Itanium and x86-64	Camiel Vanderhoeven
CRTL Improvements	John Reagan
Customer Case Study: Implementing a WebDAV Server using WASD on OpenVMS	John Dite
Customer Case Study: Using OpenSource/Freeware Software on OpenVMS to help manage your small software business	John Dite
Customer Case: Virtualize Alphas while moving them to a different location without shutting down	Arie de Groot
Interesting X86-64 Features	Camiel Vanderhoeven
Layered Products Update	Rob Brooks
Managing your Integrity, Console, boot and crash processes.	Jim Mehlhop
MQTT - A protocol for communicating with your things	Brett Cameron and Robert Nydahl
New Advanced File System for VMS	Andy Goldstein
New VSI TCP/IP	Dick Stockdale, Mike Zaharee and Eddie Orcutt
Open Source on OpenVMS Community Update	Bill Pedersen
Open Source Strategy & Updates	Brett Cameron and Camiel Vanderhoeven
OpenVMS Performance and Availability Updates	Keith Parris
Oracle Database and Oracle Rdb on OpenVMS Product Update	Kevin Duffy and Gary Huffman
Porting Samba 4.3.6 to OpenVMS	Bill Pedersen
Re-Architecting the Early Boot Path	Richard Bishop, Gary Newstead and Doug Gordon
Securing your OpenVMS system with System Detective	Warren Kahle
Software Engineering, the VMS Way	Camiel Vanderhoeven
Support and communications for EMEA customers - OpenVMS boot camp EMEA customer track	Multiple EMEA HPE and VSI Personnel
Talking with your ACMS applications in new and exciting ways	Brett Cameron
The Future of Alpha	VSI Team
The Future of VSI Multi-vendor Storage	Eddie Orcut and Partners
Troubleshooting OpenVMS With SDA Extensions and Availability Manager	Jim Mehlhop
Troubleshooting with Chaos	Robert Nydahl
Update on Thin Provisioning and OpenVMS	Keith Parris
Utilizing OpenVMS System Programming Techniques to Develop Tools for Management and Monitoring of OpenVMS Applications	Tom Heim
VSI ISV Partner Solutions	Eddie Orcutt
VSI Panel	VSI Team
VSI Roadmap	Eddie Orcutt
VSI Strategy and Directions	Johan Gedda, Duane Harris and others
What you always wanted to know about OpenVMS Service Control, but were afraid to ask!	John Dite
Why VMS is the correct choice for a Secure, Mission Critical enviroment in today's world	Eddie Orcutt and Wayne Beeson
x86 Update	Clair Grant
You can’t make this [stuff] up!	NIC CLEWS
Adding friends to T4	Duncan Morris
Advancing OpenVMS in an Open Source World	Jeremy Begg
Availability Manager Overview and Futures	Barry Kierstein
CHARON as a Marvel replacement? Explorations in CHARON performance.	Norman Lastovica
CHARON Virtualization Strategies and Techniques	Brad McCusker
Cleaning Out the Cruft: An Updated Look at OpenVMS Object Maintenance	Dan Fleury and Lorin Ricker
Connecting your OpenVMS Itanium systems to Storage Area Networks	Dave Sullivan
DCL Tips and Tricks	Andrea Arthur
Designing OpenVMS Software for Inevitable Failures	Robert Gezelter
Implementing Network Redundancy and Failover with OpenVMS	James Preciado
Integrating StoreOnce in an OpenVMS world	Eamonn Fitzmaurice
Introduction to AST Programming	Robert Gezelter
Lessons Learned on Migration to Emulation	Andrea Arthur
Linking OpenVMS, Jimmy Cliff, Queen and The Who: OpenVMS today-tomorrow-forever	Ken Surplice
Mistakes: That which makes you stronger	Stephen Hoffman
More Adventures of VMS Moves, Migrations and Rehosting...	Brad McCusker
My System Manager Retired – Now what?	Brad McCusker
Network troubleshooting for the VMS Engineer	Greg Guthman
OpenVMS and the Three Sins of Security: A Pragmatic Approach	Lorin Ricker & Dan Fleury
OpenVMS and VMWare	James Preciado
OpenVMS Logical Names in an Application Setting: A Case Study	Dan Fleury & Lorin Ricker
OpenVMS Security	Stephen Hoffman
Perl for VMS System Managers : An Introduction	Carl Friedberg
Securely Managing VMS from a Windows Environment	Mike Schofield
Setting up and using ACME/LDAP from OpenVMS	dan buckley
SharkDB - the database project	John Dite and Wolfgang Burger
The Fourth Porting: Preparing Sources for the x86	Robert Gezelter
Troubleshooting OpenVMS System Performance: From Beginner to Advanced	Dan Fleury & Lorin Ricker

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Port of Samba 4.3.6 continues...

Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 08:45 PM
Posted by Administrator

We have been able to get SMBD to work under the TCPIP Aux Server environment - multiple server processes - automatically - and access from multiple clients simultaneously. So now the next challenge is to reduce the number of shared images so we can then have SMBD and NMBD run with minimal impact on a server - reduce or minimize sysgen parameter changes.

Then the testing and debugging will continue more evenly as we move forward.

Need to find, isolate and fix a bug a day for a while. Not too much issue finding. The isolation is a bit more of a challenge as well as getting a fix in a day.

Also need to start developing the new VMS specific ACL code.

Also utilities need to checked out and tested.

No attempt will be made to get the Python extension working - at least not on first blush.

And I need to start working on a paper about this port for the OpenVMS Boot Camp being held in late September in Nashua, New Hampshire.

See you there!

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Samba port continues...

Thursday, May 26, 2016, 09:50 PM
Posted by Administrator

We can CREATE files! Yes, that's right. Create files! View files! Create new folders! Navigate a share.

Now this has all been in "single" process mode. But it is definite progress!

Currently we are working on getting this version of Samba (4.3.6) to running under the HPE TCPIP Auxilury Server (this is similar to the inetd environment of Linux/Unix). Various issues have to be addressed, the invocation under the AUX server does not use stdin as its base socket, but relies upon the server to create a socket with a special "protocol family" type - TCPIP$C_AUXS. There are also issues with the code as it has come to us in that it does not like doing the DEBUG logging in this mode until after a certain point - which we still have to isolate, document and resolve.

Many things still to be done.

Onward.

Bill.

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OpenVMS Samba V4.3.6 I64 progress...

Saturday, May 21, 2016, 03:31 PM
Posted by Administrator

We have some nice progress...

Have been able to get the code to a point where I can navigate the folders in a share and also open and display a file. Yes, progress.

And then I tried to create a file... Oops! Well, not really surprising that code path has not been excised yet and many issued need to be checked. Looks like an issue with some of the talloc code possibly - that was the comment in the log file. So will dive into that soon.

Nice to see the progress and get the reward of seeing the navigation and the display.

Bill.

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