[Info-vax] Oracle on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/20/2016 10:11 PM, BillPedersen wrote:
> Well we do not yet have Postgres on VMS.  There are a couple
> stumbling points that have gotten in the way.  Shared Stream IO to
> files to allow multiple writers and byte-range locking in the same
> context as the SSIO.  There are two features  which several "data"
> sharing applications running on Linux/Unix quite often have in common
> and they are the biggest stumbling points of getting these sorts of
> software to run on VMS effectively.
>
> Both Postgres and Samba have issues related to the lack of these
> features.  This topic was discussed a bit during the October Open
> Source On OpenVMS Conference Call.  Not that we had an epiphany and
> solved the problems but as a discussion topic to at least high light
> the issue.
>
> So, if someone came up with some "magic" to facilitate these
> requirements in a VMS Cluster then we would really like to talk to
> you.
>
> Obviously there are some things that can be done, but it then gets
> into an issue of whether you can maintain the basic architecture of
> the applications  or if you are creating something that is entirely
> dependent on VMS.  The big issue for all of these sort of things if
> trying to minimize or eliminate ANY changes to the original source
> code of the application.
>
> Sometimes it just "works".  At other times then there are major
> issues that make it such that it just an not be done that way.

AFAIK then GNU Cobol is not available on VMS either.

Arne