[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Hans Bachner]

Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb am 25.12.2018 um 10:38:
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> As have been said many times, a web *browser* is wasted money on VMS.
> No sane person uses VMS as their "office desktop" today. [...]

I'm certainly not asking for a full desktop environment on OpenVMS, but 
a reasonable/usable browser should be rather high on the list. Given the 
fact that most support stuff (patches, kits, ...) is accessible through 
a browser (only, in many cases), there should be a way to directly 
download this stuff to a VMS box and not go through intermediate systems 
with different OSs.

Well, VSI offers their kits/ECOs on an SFTP server which changes 
requirements a bit. But the old HP(E) interface into the patch website 
was quite good, where you could look at details of individual ECO kits 
and add them to your download list. I don't know how it looks today as 
partners (DSPP/AllianceONE) have been locked out for quite a while now.

> And regarding a "GUI for VMS" in general, it is today a web server (on
> VMS) and browsers (on some common office desktop platform).

This is correct, and, while much management is still done on the command 
line and through scripting, more browser based tools at least for parts 
which are used only occasionally would be very helpful.

Hans.