[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 4/21/2019 10:37 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:

> The problem with ACMS was the DEC sales resistance force and a marketing
> department which only understood IBM CICS. While it is true you can use ACMS
> in a CICS like batch screen mode, that is only an extremely tiny portion of
> its functionality. It is cluster aware. It will restart task servers which
> fall over and it will dynamically adjust the number of task servers based on
> work load. 

> It's a phenomenal piece of software engineering.

As the current ACMS maintainer at VSI, I heartily agree with the above.

On the other hand, it has way more carnal knowledge of VMS internals than
a layered product should have.  It may be that when it was developed in 1980,
there were no other choices (LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL did not exist then), but the 
way it maps DCL by hand into a newly-created process is baroque.

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                  -- Rob