[Info-vax] Execute a batch script on a windows server

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-10-18 05:48:00 +0000, arunarun124 at gmail.com said:

> can we run OpenVMS commands from windows operating system


This is as much a a generic Microsoft Windows networking question as 
anything else; Windows doesn't play well with Unix or Linux (or 
OpenVMS) by default, and you'll generally end up installing some tools 
onto Windows to work in a heterogeneous environment.

As for common options for generic Unix networking on Windows...

Install an ssh package on Microsoft Windows (PuTTY is free, and there 
are other options), and configure the ssh server on your fairly recent 
OpenVMS system, and use that.

If you're working with an ancient version of OpenVMS (that lacks an ssh 
server) and cannot upgrade, or if you otherwise don't care about 
network and password security, then you can acquire rsh or rexec 
clients for Windows and install those, and use that with the OpenVMS IP 
stack.

There are probably some other commercial options around such as 
distributed job-scheduling packages that support Microsoft Windows, 
OpenVMS and other local platforms, and these might be worth 
investigating in certain environments; tossing around commands can turn 
into a project to create a distributed job scheduler with all that 
entails around failures and restarts and logging and the rest, and such 
packages may already have been written.

So Intel is still working with OpenVMS.  Interesting.


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