[Info-vax] OpenVMS Reference / Graduate Materials (Commercial and Free)

[Ian Miller]

On Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 8:45:04 PM UTC, Kerry Main wrote:
> Starting a new thread to provide a better focus for available technical 
> reference materials for those new to OpenVMS:
> 
> University, Graduate, Post Grad, System Programmers: (Purchase)
> 
> 1. VMS Internals and Data Structures - Ruth Goldenberg and
> Lawrence Kenah, ISBN 1-55558-059-9 . Based on OpenVMS V5.2
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555580599  (Amazon order)
> 
> Extract from back cover:
> "Teachers and students of graduate and advanced graduate courses
> in operating systems will also find this book a valuable study in how
> theory and practice are resolved in a complex commercial operating
> system"
> 
> 2. OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures - Memory Mgmt
> ISBN 1-55558-159-5
> http://tinyurl.com/Alpha-OpenVMS-Internals  
> 
> " OpenVMS Alpha Internals and Data Structures: Memory Mgmt 
> is an update to selected parts of the book OpenVMS AXP Internals 
> and Data Structures (Digital Press, 1994). This book covers  the 
> extensions to the memory management subsystem of OpenVMS 
> Alpha to allow the operating system and applications to access 64 bits 
> of address space. It emphasizes system data structures and their 
> manipulation by paging and swapping routines and related system 
> services.... It also describes management of dynamic memory, such 
> as non-paged pool, and support for non-uniform memory access 
> (NUMA) platforms." [km note - new X86-64 servers are NUMA]
> 
> >From back cover:
> "Aside from the source code itself, this book is THE definitive reference
> describing how the OpenVMS kernel works, particularly  its virtual
> memory subsystem. Its wealth of detail is indispensable to developers 
> and consumers alike. Anyone who is serious about understanding of the
> inner workings of a general purpose operating system would do well to 
> have this book handy - Michael Harvey, Consulting Member of Technical 
> Staff - Oracle Corporation"
> 
> 3. VMS File Server Internals - Kirby McCoy ISBN 1-55558-056-4
> www.amazon.com/VMS-File-System-Internals-VAX/dp/1555580564
> 
> Extract from back cover:
> "VMS File System Internals is an in depth study of the OpenVMS file 
> system. It covers on-disk structures, volume structure processing, 
> system wide caching algorithms, cluster wide coordination techniques
> and the IO subsystem, including the extended $QIO processor (the
> Files-11 XQP) .. It may also be used as a case study of the VMS file 
> system for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in 
> operating systems..... This book is a companion to VMS Internals and 
> Data Structures by Ruth Goldenberg and Lawrence Kenah (see note 
> above)"
> 
> 4. Writing Real Programs in DCL, Second Edition - Steve Hoffman and
> Paul Anagnostopoulos. ISBN 1-55558-191-9
> http://tinyurl.com/Real-DCL-Programs 
> 
> "Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition will help OpenVMS 
> programmers make an intelligent choice between DCL and more 
> conventional programming languages. In addition, it offers a 
> programming language to computer users who are not conversant with 
> conventional languages. Among the new material is information on 
> DCL commands, security, DCL procedures, aliases, searchlists, UIC-
> based protection, objects, pipes, detached processes, network 
> processes, HTML, CGI scripting and environments, and reading and 
> writing logical names. New chapters on using DCL for the web and 
> DCL and compiled code are particularly relevant to today's 
> programming needs.... Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, also 
> covers updated OpenVMS concepts, files and directories, aliases, 
> searchlists, UIC-based protection, and pipes. The only book devoted 
> to programming in DCL, Writing Real Programs in DCL, 2nd Edition, is 
> an essential guide for OpenVMS developers, administrators, and 
> advanced users"
> 
> Free:
> 
> The DEC/Compaq/HP provided manuals and guides on OpenVMS are 
> available for free online:
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/index.html  
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os84_index.html 
> 
> Training and Courses:
> http://h10076.www1.hp.com/education/openvms.htm  
> http://h10076.www1.hp.com/education/hg769aae_demo/default.htm 
> 
> Whitepapers:
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/whitepapers/index.html 
> 
> Other links: (FAQ, Ambassadors, SPD's, Tech Journals etc)
> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/resources.html  
> 
> [Others - feel free to add to this thread...]
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerry Main
> Back to the Future IT Inc.
>  .. Learning from the past to plan the future
> 
> Kerry dot main at backtothefutureit dot com

The Digital Technical Journal has some good things
http://www.vmsresource.org.uk/dtj_archive.html