[Info-vax] VSI presentations today.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-04-10 kl. 19:13, skrev Mark DeArman:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:25:11 +0200, Jan-Erik Söderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>>
>> Was earlier today at the Swedish HP-Connect VMS-SIG annual
>> meeting, and there was some presentations from the Swedish
>> VSI office. It was said that the presentation material would
>> be made available in some way, but here are a few notes...
>>
>> Jan-Erik.
>>
>> On the way:
>> - CSWS based on V2.4-38
>> - Samba based on 4.6.5
>> - OpenSSL 1.1.1 "a couple of weeks away"
>> - New IDE based on "MS VS Code". Free of charge.
>> - WebUI. Web interface to common VMS mgr tasks.
>>
>> "Over the nest months":
>> - "Low-cost cluster", wasn't commented further, as I remember.
>> - VSI TCPIP 10.6
>>
>> "First boot is hours away". Number of hours not specified...
>> I think that estimate was a couple of weeks to a month.
>>
>> Screen shots of VMS booting up to SYS$LOGINOUT in STARTUP was
>> shown, and the DCL prompt is just around the corner.
>>
>> New IDE:
>> - Get MS VS Code from MS.
>> - Get VMS extentions from "MS MarketPlace".
>> - No additional softare on VMS, all done through SSH.
>> - See https://www.vmssoftwaretraining.com/wiki/VMS_IDE for info.
>>
>> Info from HPE:
>> - HPE stops selling "HPE VMS".
>> - Talkes to get HPE to become a "VSI Reseller" to support current cust.
>> - HPE has an interest in VSI and VMS to succedd, due to royalties from VSI.
>>
>> VSI quickly commented on "Hobbyist licenses".
>> - It is "in the works".
>> - Maybe a self-service portal with free downloads.
>>
>>
> 
> This is very exciting news on the IDE front.
> I've been looking at what it would take to get ptvsd working on VMS
> recently also.
> 
> Mark
> 

MS VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/

Extension for DCL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/
(Enter "OpenVMS" in the search box)

GitHub repository for the DCL extensions:
https://github.com/tomesparon/OpenVMS-DCL-VSCODE-Lang-Support