The 2015 OpenVMS Boot Camp is scheduled to begin on 28 September!

It is not too late to still sign up to attend! This is THE OpenVMS Community event of the year! Come join many of your VMS colleagues and network and plan your year together!

There are currently over 80 technical sessions, as well as the Vendor Round House on the evening of the 28th and the Banquet/VMS Reunion and Scholarship Auction on the evening of the 29th.

And for those that really want to get into the details about Security and OpenVMS there is the Pre-Conference Seminar on Sunday, 27 September. The presenters include:

Stephen Hoffman, HoffmanLabs LLC
Colin Butcher, XDelta Limited
James Preciado, James J. Preciado, LLC
Bill Highleyman, Availability Digest
Greg Guthman, Software Concepts International, Inc.
Bill Pedersen, CCSS, LLC
Eddie Orcutt, VMS Software, Inc.

The schedule for the Pre-Con is here:

Continental Breakfast/Registration
Morning
Introduction
Infrastructure
Securing hardware consoles, ILOs, MPs, Virtual Connect, Chassis and other things
Why worry about this?
Default usernames and passwords
TELNET and FTP
External authentication
Individual accountability and activity logs
Monitoring
Routers
LDAP
VLAN
Fibre
NAS/SAN
Break
VMS Security in review
Built in components
SYSUAF - Password Policy - History
ACL / ACE’s - / Identifiers / Groups etc.
Auditing / Accounting
Monitoring / OPCOM
Add-in components/Tools
Encryption
Commercial options
Open Source options
Rapid Recovery / State checking
Other
Networking:
DECnet / LAT
bjects / Proxies
TCPIP
ACME - LDAP
Proxies
IPSec
SSL
DMZ’s / VLAN’s
Lunch
Afternoon
Best practices
VMS Guide to Security
Overview of various Standards
Audits and Standard Compliance
Risk vs. Compensating Control
What makes an effective control?
The "nasty" privileges
Fine tuning and monitoring access and functions
Segregation of duties
Security policies and escalation procedures
Real world examples
Application / Open Source remediation / hardening
Smart Card Technology
Break
Infrastructure
Penetration test preparation
Futures (VSI)
Round table

Kevin Duffy of Oracle has announced that registration for the 2015 Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Technical Forums in North America and EMEA is now open. To register, go to:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/datab ... 01986.html

As was previously announced, the dates and locations for the 2015 Oracle Forums are:

• October 1-2, Burlington, MA, USA
• October 5-6, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
• October 12-13, Utrecht, Netherlands
• October 15-16, Kista, Sweden
• October 19-20, Vienna, Austria
• October 22-23, London, UK
• October 26-27, Paris, France
• December 1-2, North Ryde, Australia

Registration for the 2015 Asia Pacific Forum being held in Sydney, Australia is not yet open but will be opening soon.

Note that the Burlington Forum will be held just following this year’s Connect OpenVMS Boot Camp in Nashua, NH. The Forum will be held at our Burlington, MA campus instead of Nashua, NH because we have larger conference facilities in Burlington. The Boot Camp begins on Sunday, September 27th and ends on Wednesday, September 30th and the Oracle Forum begins on Thursday, October 1st. The drive from Nashua to Burlington is about 30-45 minutes depending on traffic, so Boot Camp attendees may want to consider relocating to a Burlington hotel starting Wednesday evening.

We will be presenting an Oracle session at the Boot Camp. However, to get an in-depth understanding of the latest Oracle related developments on OpenVMS, we highly recommend that you attend the Forum as well.

A sampling of the Forum session topics includes:

• Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Product Status and Direction
• OpenVMS Update from HP and VMS Software Inc.
• An update from Intel on Itanium and x86
• Connect OpenVMS Community Update
• What's Next with Oracle 11g
• 11g Install on OpenVMS
• Replaying Your 10g Workload on 11g with RAT
• What's New in Oracle Rdb
• Upgrading to Rdb 7.3
• Oracle Rdb Remote Database Access
• Oracle Rdb Connectivity Update
• Using PHP Data Objects (PDO) with Oracle Rdb Databases
• OpenVMS and Oracle Rdb at one of the Largest Customers in Japan
• History of SQL Features Including Newer Ones You May Have Missed

The full Forum agenda is being finalized and will be posted soon on the registration web page.

Attendance will be opened to those who cannot join us in person. Remote attendees will be sent the information needed to join us in a live online Forum web conference. To receive this information, remote attendees must send an email to InfoRdb_US@oracle.com, after they have registered, indicating that they will be attending remotely. Remote attendees are welcome to attend any or all sessions.

Kevin and his team are very excited to be bringing the 2015 Technical Forums to you. They hope you will be able to join them.

New versions of several packages have been uploaded to the SourceForge VMS-Ports Project as well as the GNV Project. These include:

New versions of some GNV tools on GNV/FILES…

Bash V4.3.39
Grep V2.21
Gawk V4.1.3
Sed V4.22
Coreutils V8.23
LD_utils (26 June, newer version soon)

New versions of other open source now on VMS-Ports/FILES...

cURL version 7.43
SQLite version 3

Also the next conference call is this Thursday – 20 August, 23:00 EDT.

The notes and recording of the 17 July conference call are available at:

https://sourceforge.net/p/vms-ports/discussion/call_topics/

Thanks!

See you Thursday (or Friday depending on your locale).

Best,
Bill.

Save the dates!

Kevin Duffy and his crew at Oracle are happy to announce that the dates and locations for this year’s Oracle Rdb and Oracle Database on OpenVMS Technical Forums have been set. This year the Forums are being held in cooperation with HP, VSI, Intel, Connect, the local HP User Group organizations and our Oracle partners. The Forum agendas will include presentations from all of these companies and groups.

The dates and locations are:

    October 1-2, Burlington, MA, USA
    October 5-6, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
    October 12-13, Utrecht, Netherlands
    October 15-16, Kista, Sweden
    October 19-20, Vienna, Austria
    October 22-23, London, UK
    October 26-27, Paris, France
    December 1-2, North Ryde, Australia

All of the Forums will be held at the Oracle offices at the above locations with the exception of Vienna which will be held at the HP office. Registration is not yet open and the agendas are not yet finalized, but we are sending this announcement now so that you can save the dates and begin making plans for your travel.

Once registration is open and the agendas are finalized, we will be sending follow-up mails and the agendas will be posted online on the Oracle registration page

The Burlington Forum will be held just following this year’s Connect OpenVMS Boot Camp in Nashua, NH. The Forum will be held in Burlington, MA instead of Nashua, NH because we have larger conference facilities there. The drive from Nashua to Burlington is about 30-45 minutes depending on traffic.

See you in Burlington, MA!

Curl 7.43, ZLIB 1.2.8e1 PCSI kits should now install on VSI VMS releases.

Curl 7.43 is now available for VMS including the VSI VMS releases. It requires ZLIB 1.2.8e1 PCSI kit to also be installed.

This is the current release of Curl for all platforms.

This build of Curl will use the SSL, Kerberos and LDAP that are installed on current versions of VMS by default.

Curl provides a 32 bit libcurl shared image and while Curl installs in the same directory tree as GNV, it does not require GNV to be installed.

Curl detects when running under GNV or DCL and automatically adjusts itself to the desired mode.

Download location is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vms-ports/files/i640840/