[Info-vax] Oracle on VMS

[jalbertjeffrey at gmail.com]

On Friday, November 18, 2016 at 11:02:57 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Maybe I have been out of touch long enough to miss the
> change, but wasn't Oracle ordered by the courts to continue
> support for VMS?  I was looking at the pre-compilers for
> embedded SQL and the absence of any for VMS is kinda obvious.
> Was there never pre-compilers for VMS or have they dropped
> all support at this point in time?  Of course, a pre-compiller
> implies a linkable library for the supported languages. I assume
> these don't exist either.  Or did I miss something subtle?
> 
> bill



Huh?  I just checked our oracle installation of Oracle 11.2.  The compilers are called proxxx where xxx is the language name.  Here is the raw result of a directory for *pro*.  Everything is there.  

Directory DISK$SOFTWARE:[ORACLE11GR2_IPF.ORA112.bin]
 
extproc.dsf;1                          8.49MB/8.49MB     12-APR-2016 09:18:49.35
extproc.exe;1                        111.11MB/111.12MB   12-APR-2016 09:18:49.35
oidprovtool.;1                            3KB/5KB        12-APR-2016 09:04:51.38
oidprovtool.dsf;1                         5KB/7KB        12-APR-2016 09:11:26.40
oidprovtool.exe;1                        10KB/12KB       12-APR-2016 09:11:26.41
proc.dsf;1                             9.68MB/9.68MB     12-APR-2016 09:16:52.96
proc.exe;1                           125.66MB/125.66MB   12-APR-2016 09:16:52.96
procob.dsf;1                           9.65MB/9.65MB     12-APR-2016 09:17:14.31
procob.exe;1                         125.05MB/125.05MB   12-APR-2016 09:17:14.32
profor.dsf;1                           9.63MB/9.63MB     12-APR-2016 09:17:23.06
profor.exe;1                         124.20MB/124.21MB   12-APR-2016 09:17:23.85
tkprof.dsf;1                           8.20MB/8.20MB     12-APR-2016 09:18:13.72
tkprof.exe;1                         104.30MB/104.31MB   12-APR-2016 09:18:13.73