[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[kemain.nospam at gmail.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> via Info-vax
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2022 9:32 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?
> 
> On 11/19/2022 3:20 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> > In article <tl9i99$13ti$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> > maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com (Richard Maher) wrote:
> >> On 19/11/2022 5:12 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> >>> They did not say VMS, but Cobol on Itanium is likely VMS.
> >> I thought they left VMS when they left SEATS?
> >
> > They're trying to hire a Senior Analyst Programmer to work on CHESS,
> > requiring a good knowledge of OpenVMS:
> > <https://www2.asx.com.au/content/dam/asx/about/job-
> opportunities/secur
> > itie s-and-payments/senior-analyst-programmer%20-chess.pdf>
> 
> Very much indeed.
> 
> <quote>
> * Expertise in design, build and maintenance of COBOL programmes
> * Experience of COBOL batch processing
> * Experience of using DECForms
> * Highly proficient in writing SQL queries/ Oracle RDB
> * Experience of building and maintenance of OpenVMS PASCAL programmes
> * Experience of OpenVMS operating system
> * Working knowledge of DCL (Digital Command Language), command line
> interpreter for OpenVMS systems, with ability to read/write command
> scripts </quote>
> 
> That is about as VMSish as it can be.
> 
> But I did not know that when I wrote the above. I was just considering VMS
> way more likely than HP-UX for a Cobol application.
> 
> Arne
> 

Not Cobol, but semi-related historical tidbit - when the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2005 (at the time, SSE was rumoured to eventually take over as WW #1 trading platform) did an industry wide RFP for their next generation Stock Exchange platform, the OS platform chosen to host this new mission critical, multi-site, highly secure solution was OpenVMS on Integrity HW.

The new system went live in early 2010 timeframe.

Key point - this new OpenVMS solution replaced the old environment that ran on ... HP-UX.

😊

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com





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