[Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming file

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> via Info-vax
> Sent: May 27, 2018 9:32 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] The best VMS features, was: Re: openvms renaming
> file
> 
> On 5/27/2018 9:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > On 5/27/2018 8:59 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Simon
> Clubley
> >>> via Info-vax
> >>> On 2018-05-27, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> >>> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >>>> Rdb (almost a part of VMS),
> >>>
> >>> It would have been nice to have a proper database instead of the RMS
> >>> implemention of indexed files (which have _not_ aged well) as a
> >>> guaranteed part of VMS and which _any_ application could use.
> >>>
> >>
> >> [snip..]
> >>
> >> One needs to remember that no other platform provides native
> relational
> >> DB's as part of the OS either.
> >
> > Really?
> >
> > I thought several OS'es shipped with SQLite.
> 

Are you sure about this?

As part of the OS install?

> And on several *nix then MySQL/MariaDB (and sometimes PostgreSQL)
> can be installed by the OS package manager.
> 
> Which is somewhat the equivalent of this millennium of being on
> the VMS LP CD.
> 
> Arne

Still a separate DB not integrated or maintained by the native platform provider as Simon was requesting. Not much different than downloading / installing.

Having stated this, I am not saying native OpenVMS installs and configs could not be done better in the future. As an example, one might image some creative installs using LD images with custom freeware/open source prod's integrated.


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com