[Info-vax] ZIP+4

[Dave Froble]

On 5/6/2019 8:38 AM, jcristof77 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 3:26:36 PM UTC-4, jcris... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Any have experienceany of the ZIP+4 tools? Looking for a replacement that runs on VSI's latest release.
>>
>> James Cristofero
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> Steve,
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> It's not an issues of tools not working post upgrade/conversion to VSI. Current vendor has priced the Itanium support for OpenVMS very high. So investigating alternatives. This would be for Zip geocoding
>

You haven't been very forthcoming about the details of what you're 
doing, so I'm making some guesses.

Are you doing the work in-house, or using a service via the internet to 
obtain the data?

We are using a service via internet for address validation which also 
returns geo location I believe.  Communications are via HTTPS, though 
why anyone demands the "S" for data that is freely available is a bit of 
a mystery to me.

To do so, we use a "relay" on WEENDOZE that accepts requests from a VMS 
task, and then does the HTTPS communication, returning the result to the 
VMS task.

If you wonder about the use of the relay, look no further than the 
rather poor TCP/IP and OpenSSL available from HP.

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