[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2018-12-27 kl. 10:25, skrev Hans Bachner:
> Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb am 25.12.2018 um 10:38:
>> [...]
>>
>> 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.
> 

To fetch some pacthes or new OS kits a few times a year, I do not see
the big win here. And not the ROI from browser development/porting.

For manual kit/patch fetches, your normal Windows desktop works
perfectly OK.

Automated patch fetches will not be based on a web browser anyway.

No, save those efforts for things that actually matters.

Jan-Erik.

> 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.