OpenVMS Technical Journal V7, January 2006

This document is the OpenVMS Technical Journal V7, published in January 2006, featuring a collection of technical articles relevant to the OpenVMS operating system. The journal covers a range of topics, including:

• SLS to ABS/MDMS Migration: Guidance for migrating from the Storage Library System (SLS) backup application to the newer ABS/MDMS, outlining differences, advantages, challenges, and migration tasks.
• Using VMS_CHECK to Collect OpenVMS Configuration Data: An introduction to VMS_Check, a DCL-based utility for gathering OpenVMS configuration and performance data across various hardware architectures.
• Oracle RDB Monitoring and Alerting on OpenVMS: A review of utilities and an HP-developed solution (MSE Rdb_Mon) for monitoring, alarming, and ensuring the availability of Oracle Rdb databases on OpenVMS.
• Faking It with OpenVMS Shareable Images: Techniques for analyzing and manipulating OpenVMS shareable images, enabling call interception for diagnosis, debugging, and function modification on Alpha and I64 systems.
• WASD in SOAP/XML Transaction-Oriented Environments: An exploration of how the WASD VMS Hypertext Services Package facilitates SOAP remote procedure calls in transaction-oriented network services, emphasizing its persistent scripting (CGIplus) for efficiency, supported by case studies.
• Reusing OpenVMS Applications from Java: An overview of the Web Services Integration Toolkit (WSIT) for OpenVMS, which allows Java applications to easily call existing non-Java (legacy) applications by generating Java wrappers, enhancing integration for web services.
• Preliminary OLTP Performance Comparisons of Oracle Rdb V7.2 on OpenVMS I64 and Alpha: Early performance test results and observations comparing Oracle Rdb V7.2 on OpenVMS I64 (Integrity Servers) against Alpha systems for OLTP workloads, discussing factors like code generation, I/O, and alignment faults.
• The Development of a High-Performance VAX 6000 Emulator: Details on Software Resources International's development of a high-performance VAX 6000 emulator (CHARON-VAX) to run unmodified VAX software on modern host systems, focusing on multi-CPU emulation challenges.
• Bringing Seismic Data to the Web with OpenVMS: A description of a system running on a VAX-7820 under OpenVMS that gathers, filters, processes, and publishes online seismic data from geophysical instruments to the web.