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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 10/16/22 6:03 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of abrsvc via Info-
>> vax
>> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:17 PM
>> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
>> Cc: abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?
>>
>> On Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 5:26:10 PM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm
>> wrote:
>>> Den 2022-10-13 kl. 19:09, skrev John Dallman:
>>>> In its glory days of the 1980s, VMS got used for all sorts of
>>>> technical computing and business IT.
>>>>
>>>> My employers used it as a software development system, producing
>>>> mathematical modelling code for VMS, plus a wide range of other
>> platforms.
>>>> Demand for the code on VMS shrank in the 1990s, and it became
>>>> expensive compared to doing development on Windows. We had
>> dropped
>>>> it by the year 2000. We'd resume support if there was significant
>>>> demand for it on x86-64, which is why I joined this newsgroup.
>>>>
>>>> What do you use VMS for in the 2020s?
>>> Production support and control. What is called "MES" today.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_execution_system
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> John
>> I have direct clients in banking, manufacturing, medical lab information
>> systems and other industries.
>>
>> Through my job supporting emulation environments, I reach many other
>> industries.
>>
>> All working with systems powered by OpenVMS of various versions from V4
>> up to current VSI versions.
>>
>> Dan
> 
> Not specific to OpenVMS only, but like most companies today, where a mixed OS environment exists and in cases below, includes OpenVMS:
> <https://www.indeed.com/q-Openvms-jobs.html?vjk=aca6c8029c23b35e>
> 
> No idea of how current these positions are.
> 
> As example:
> <https://www.indeed.com/q-Openvms-jobs.html?vjk=aca6c8029c23b35e>
> "The Client calculates and processes approximately $8 billion of school funding annually. The data processing systems used are a mix of COBOL and SAS programs; running on an OpenVMS mainframe; reading from Oracle databases, SAS datasets, and flat files; and writing to SAS datasets and flat files."
> 
> 

You also neglected to mention that the job is "replacing COBOL and SAS
on OpenVMS with Python on Windows and SQL server databases."  So it's
not a VMS job and soon won't be a VMS shop.