[Info-vax] Desirable features for VMS

[Marc Van Dyck]

Simon Clubley formulated the question :
> On 2024-01-24, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 1/24/2024 8:13 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2024-01-23, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> What is really rude is talking about Linux on c.o.v ...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Unless you consider VMS to be perfect and not in need of any improvement,
>>> other operating systems offer some good ideas that it would be nice to
>>> see in VMS, especially around security and internal isolation in general.
>>> 
>> 
>> Then discuss the ideas and concepts ...
>> 
>
> OK.
>
> A random sample of things from Linux/Unix I would like to see in VMS:
>
> Mandatory Access Controls (my preference) or jails (Stephen's preference).
>
> A shell with decent modern functionality such as:
>
> 	Proper command history retention and merging from multiple sessions
> 	Easy searching of command history
> 	Tab completion
> 	Editing long command lines
> 	Globbing
>
> Proper package management and management of updates.
>
> Loadable and unloadable kernel modules, with device driver/filesystem/etc
> functionality available from within these modules.
>
> ASLR and KASLR support.
>
> Proper timezone management. (Everything is always UTC based, and your
> timezone is merely a local session property with no effect on the
> on-disk timestamps).
>
> The last one is policy-based, not technical:
>
> A vendor that has proper security reporting mechanisms.
>
> Does anyone have any others to add to the list ?
>
> Simon.

Yes. Some kind of automatic disaster recovery. That is, if a process,
or a set of processes, run on a system that crashes, those processes 
are
automatically restarted on another cluster member, transparently, with
no manual intervention, and continue from the point they were at when
the system crashed. No transaction lost of any kind, and without having
to add anything in the code that those processes are running. The
operating system (or layered product) does all the work transparently.
Should work with code written 30 years ago, with ACMS applications,
anything.

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Marc Van Dyck