[Info-vax] ODS5 on Linux

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 17:50:12 -0700, johnson.eric wrote:

> On Monday, May 14, 2012 7:55:59 PM UTC-4, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> 
>> > I suspect that what people would really want (at least those drawn to
>> > this driver) would be a way to get real time access to all files
>> > through all native APIs.  But I think the only effective way to do
>> > that is to broker the access through a VMS node such that the off box
>> > access points look and feel like equal players in the clustered
>> > relationship with the file system.
>> 
>> It would be nice to have that sort of thing, agreed.
> 
> If there's interest, I can outline a set of ideas that can achieve real
> time access brokered through a VMS node.  At the moment, it's not much
> more than an idea so there would be some non-trivial code to write. 
> It's a solution that would require some serious programming skill, but
> the hardest (and most fun problems!) always do.
> 
> The solution may not appeal to everyone or fit everyone's needs.  So I
> don't want to mislead anyone into thinking it's a silver bullet.  I
> think that legacy systems whose run time is mostly cpu bound, rather
> than IO bound, are the main benefactors.  But as with any system, the
> devil lies in the details!

That sounds like Attunity's offerings, which are pretty comprehensive.

http://www.attunity.com/products/attunity-cdc/rms-change-data-capture

I see the OP's requirement as more akin to the ODS-2 Freeware package 
which was useful for reading things like VMS documentation CDs on non-VMS 
systems.

-- 
Paul Sture