[Info-vax] VMS - what is the current thinking amongst the user community

[Richard Maher]

"Simon Clubley" <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote in
message news:49cac4ae$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk...
> On 2009-03-25, Richard Maher <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
>
> Hello Richard,
>
> >
> > Just curious as to how you are currently exposing your VMS-based data,
> > business rules, and perhaps code/logic, to your web-facing architecture?
> > Also, did you end up going LAMP, Windows/IIS, or a.n.other?
> >
>
> I can't go into too much details as I'm not generally allowed to talk
> too much about work systems, but basically the interface itself is
> generally home grown.
>
> I have data gathering services listening on ports on the VMS system
> which accept requests over a private LAN from the local webservers and
> returns the requested data over the LAN. The LAN is physically isolated
> from the Internet by a firewall. There are also certain other security
> protections (which I can't discuss).
>
> The business rules and the code/logic to gather the data are encoded in
> the VMS based data gathering services. I've had the general architecture
> in place for several years now and, so far, it's worked very reliably.
>
> BTW, I don't use Windows/IIS at all; the webservers are all Linux based.
>
> Simon.
>
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980's technology to a 21st century world

Simon, Thanks for sharing what you could. Sounds much better than FTP or
some form of ETL Cheers Richard Maher.

PS.  Hard to argue with the price of a LAMP server, not to mention patch and
upgrade availability eh?

PPS. With web-based RIA clients getting fatter and more demanding, do you
forsee a requirement/desirability to get at your VMS herritage through the
prism of the client's Username without the need to be proxied through your
LAMP servers?