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

[Paul Sture]

In article <l3rh5u$b5j$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> 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.

One package which comes to mind is Cronacle, formerly known as 
Redwood/JCS (JCS stands for Job Control System).  This certainly did 
support OpenVMS, Windows and various flavours of Unix.  Oracle was a 
requirement for the server(s), and the name Cronacle implies it still is.

Redwood's claim back in 1998 was they would be willing to support any 
platform on which Oracle was supported (and there were a lot of 
platforms involved back then).

> So Intel is still working with OpenVMS.  Interesting.

Good catch.  I might would not have suggested Cronacle unless I knew a 
large corporation might be involved, due to the Oracle prerequisite.

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.