[Info-vax] OpenVMS Development Annoyances

[Dave Froble]

On 5/6/2019 8:31 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Monday, May 6, 2019 at 5:05:58 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>>
>> I've got maybe 40 years of one environment, why should I give that up
>> for another?
>>
>
> A more direct issue is that many of the custom business applications running on OpenVMS have been running 30+ years. Any significant change to itemlist or the other things being complained about will trash the installed base.

I don't see it that way.  If alternative methods are implemented, why 
should the item list API be removed?  It should be possible to have 
both.  It's not like there are all that many system services.

> Personally I don't have an issue with configuration information being stored in logicals, especially when they exist in isolated name tables. Multiple instances of the same application can run in completely different configurations without ever interfering with each other. Just change the name table they look at in the startup command file.
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