[Info-vax] VSI presentations today.

[Mark Daniel]

On 11/4/19 3:01 am, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 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".

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>>> - No additional softare on VMS, all done through SSH.
>>> - See https://www.vmssoftwaretraining.com/wiki/VMS_IDE for info.

"Click the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the left side of the 
Visual Studio Code (Ctrl+Shift+X).
Search for VMS IDE, select it from the list and click Install."

Not with Visual Studio for Mac 8.0.2

>>> 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)

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and unsurprisingly, "VSI", 87 results

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