Re: Seeking Testing Volunteers W2K MTS/DTC to VMS DECdtm Distributed 2PC Transactions

Hi Erland,

(Firstly, thanks for replying to my earlier questions in the SQL Server groups some time ago.)

> Indeed. Back in my younger days, I was a lot into VMS.

Well it's high-time you got back into it! With the Itanium port coming in December and mini-merge doing what it should, all of Sweeden is asking you to look at a Windows2000 SQL Server front end backed up by the bullet-proof reliability of a disaster-tolerant VMS-cluster at the back-end. Add to this the ACID properties of a hotTIP Two-Phase Commit, and your customers are gonna start beating down your door.

All flattery aside, you're one of the most prolific and altruistic of posters to these newsgroups so hopefully I've sparked your interest enough to make you want to have a look at my software and put it through it's paces. OK, You don't do VMS anymore, but I'll write whatever you want on the server side if you'll just tee-up a VAX/VMS server (or emulator) to test it on. Even if your interest extends no further than pushing Microsoft to push TIP more, so that in a few months you're talking LU6.2 MVS DB2 connectivity, then surely it's worth the investment?

Sadly, I'm starting to believe that good software is never honoured in its own country, so give us a plug!

> But this was a new experience. Call SYS$QIOW and others from Cobol, egads!

Maybe someone can explain what exactly it was that COM invented again :-) VMS has *always* had the Common Language Environment and the Procedure Calling Standard. Whatever programming language you'd like to use, makes no difference! (Admittedly alot of people in DEC/Compaq/HP (including senior VMS engineers) would like to change this to get some sort of street-cred but I'm sure that, in time, they'll grow out of it.)

Cheers Richard.

"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel_at_sommarskog.se> wrote in message news:Xns95ADEE7C89478Yazorman_at_127.0.0.1...
> Warren Simmons (wsimmons5_at_optonline.net) writes:
> > I'm a very slow learner. Also, I am retired for over 20 years.
> > As a result, I am interested in a definition of VMS code. It looked
> > a lot like Cobol to me. Oh, plus some jcl.
>
> Indeed. Back in my younger days, I was a lot into VMS. But this was a
> new experience. Call SYS$QIOW and others from Cobol, egads!
>
>
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> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel_at_sommarskog.se
>
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Received on Tue Nov 30 2004 - 14:05:43 CST