1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 16 Apr 2006	Volume 2006 : Issue 210       Contents:. Re: Best way to scan processes on remote nodes Re: DSPP and OpenVMS media! Home based Internet research Jobs E Re: Is OpenVMS certified yet for 64-way Hard partitions (GS1280 M64). " Re: SFTP oddity when PUTting files  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------    Date: 15 Apr 2006 11:12:39 -0700< From: "Hein RMS van den Heuvel" <heinvandenheuvel@gmail.com>7 Subject: Re: Best way to scan processes on remote nodes C Message-ID: <1145124759.117317.187490@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>   1 Just cluster those boxes and use the lockmanager. % That's the VMS way of doing business! C A lock per user/process combo, and the node name + timestamp in the  lock value block.  Trivial!  - If only you could cluster them easily huh?...    Hein.    ------------------------------  # Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:11:25 GMT  From: dittman@dittman.net # Subject: Re: DSPP and OpenVMS media + Message-ID: <1kd0g.12761$b06.3887@trnddc08>   + Steven M. Schweda <sms@antinode.org> wrote: . > From: Hoff Hoffman <hoff-remove-this@hp.com>   > > Mark Schafer wrote:  > > N > > > If VMS Engineering provided o/s images, I would consider providing that J > > > download also. (Hoff: call me if I'm missing out on an opportunity.) > > I > >    There have been informal engineering discussions around providing  J > > block-based disk image copies of the distribution disks (eg: ISO, raw L > > disk, or binary copies, depending on your preferred terminology), but I L > > am presently aware of no particular demand for and accordingly no plans  > > to provide these images.  F >    There may be no demand from the _paying_ customers, but I suspectI > that a lot of us parasites would be pleased to be able to suck down VMS 6 > CD-ROM images.  You know, like the ones for Solaris:  L As a paying customer I would say there is a demand.  I and my coworkers haveK run into the situation where we needed the CD and it was locked up where we N couldn't get to it, misplaced, or HP shipped it to the office in another city. --   Eric Dittman dittman@dittman.net    ------------------------------    Date: 15 Apr 2006 14:26:59 -0700 From: jankiravatia@gmail.com* Subject: Home based Internet research JobsC Message-ID: <1145136419.838029.311520@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>   ! Home based Internet research Jobs   G We are now hiring home based workers to complete simple online research  assignments.  ) No selling - no recruiting - no adplacing    For details visit   P http://www.typeinternational.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=3668_33_3_69   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:45:57 +0800 3 From: "Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> N Subject: Re: Is OpenVMS certified yet for 64-way Hard partitions (GS1280 M64).1 Message-ID: <e1sek6$ksr$1@news-02.connect.com.au>   	 Hi David,   G > Not much to tell. Oracle has evolved from its VMS roots to a UN*Xland ? > item. It runs within its own "realm", oblivious to O.S.-level 
 > clustering.   J Yes, yes, yes and I'm also led to believe that it prefers total control of> virgin disks that have no OS formatting or file system at all.  6 > Oracle on another node is entirely another database.  L On my planet, a guy called Larry Ellison has been running around for *years*L telling everyone about near linear scalibility of Oracle in a Grid computingK environment. Just plug another box (whether 8086 or 390) into the grid with J access to the SAN and the workload is dynamically load-balanced to utilize this newfound grunt.  K In Cerner world, maybe Korg has yet to discover distributed computing to go L along with his wheel but please don't apply these artificial restrictions toE VMS or Oracle. (or AIX or LINUX or Solaris or, it appears, just about  *everyone* except Cerner)   	 > It even D > has its own lock-manager, based (I'm told) on lock manager code it > purchased from DEC,   K Yes, yes, yes and (I'm told) that because its lock value blocks can be many J thousands of bytes, Oracle can provide such truly amazing functionality asL "Cache Fusion" where ownership of the page is transfered along with the lockK from node to node to node with zero disk i/o! If you don't get your jollies L out of that then you're simply sick of life itself! It's Orrible Oracle thatJ uses VMS's Reserved Memory Registry and Orrible Oracle that has raised theB cluster-performance bar with Cache Fusion (Just where the hell Rdb& engineering has been, I have no idea).  K "Build it and they will come"??? - They have bloody built it! It's the most L reliable, disaster-tolerent high-performance powerhouse you've ever seen. ToH quote a recent disasterous Australian Tourism campaign "Where the bloody
 hell are ya?"    Regards Richard Maher   K "David J. Dachtera" <djesys.nospam@NeOaSrPtAhMlNiOnWk.net> wrote in message 0 news:44406917.21AB3957@NeOaSrPtAhMlNiOnWk.net... > Richard Maher wrote: > > 
 > > Hi David,  > > & > > >  Oracle can't run "across nodes" > > A > > Now I'm definitely interested! Do tell - more details please.  > G > Not much to tell. Oracle has evolved from its VMS roots to a UN*Xland ? > item. It runs within its own "realm", oblivious to O.S.-level J > clustering. Oracle on another node is entirely another database. It evenD > has its own lock-manager, based (I'm told) on lock manager code itI > purchased from DEC, and has revised over the years to be o.s.-agnostic.  > G > > Does Cerner have some sort of strangle-hold on the health industry? 
 > > [snip] >  > Of course not. > G > ...but then, neither has VMS a "strangle-hold" on Cerner-land. Hence, ) > this sub-thread and the others like it.  >  > --   > David J Dachtera > dba DJE Systems  > http://www.djesys.com/ > ( > Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page# > http://www.djesys.com/vms/market/  > * > Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page:! > http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/  > $ > Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page:! > http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/  > + > Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: $ > http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 21:59:12 -0400 ' From: Rich Whalen <whalenr@process.com> + Subject: Re: SFTP oddity when PUTting files 8 Message-ID: <8483425h9tlrs7lmn8ue1snonsufefbg4i@4ax.com>  @ The SFTP client program that is distributed with TCP/IP servicesF accesses files on the local system by using a SFTP server that is part
 of the image.   3 On 14 Apr 2006 18:17:34 -0500, "Gareth V. Williams" # <graff@cfa0.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:   B >We have a problem with out VMS 8.2 TCPIP V5.5 ECO 1 systems usingB >SFTP within command files to copy HTML files generated on our VMSA >cluster over to the Unix-based webservers in use our Computation ? >Facility.  These command files are fairly simple, just "cd" to A >a specific remote directory and then one or more "put"s to place > >files.  Some of these command files have more than 1000 "put"C >statements.  The files being copied are typically small, a few 10s > >of KB.  The problem is that after copying just a small numberC >of files (92 in one case, but this number varies for other command ' >files) error messages start appearing:  > H >open: J99CD1X.html (src): unspecified failure (server msg: 'syserr: i/o >error, file: J99CD1X.html')  C The "(src)" means that this message is from the source file server. F Since the error is "unspecified", there isn't much that can be guessed	 about it.  > K >If I rerun the command procedure, it will fail at the same "put" statment. E >If I try running the command procedure on another cluster member, it , >will also fail at the same "put" statement. > G >If I allow it to run after the errors start to appear, then eventually  >the error message changes to: > K >open: /data/wdocs/iau/www-docs/Ephemerides/Distant/./J99O04C_1.html (dst): E >unspecified failure (server msg: 'syserr: Too many open files, file: @ >/data/wdocs/iau/www-docs/Ephemerides/Distant/./J99O04C_1.html')  @ This message contains "(dst)", and hence means that the error is3 coming from the destination server, as you guessed.    > H >Am I reading the error message correctly?  Is the "too many open files"! >error coming from the Unix side?  > K >Is there any way around this problem other than splitting the copying over  >multiple SFTP sessions?  E If the problem is due to an error in the code on the server, then you F may resolve the problem by upgrading to a newer version, but you won'tF know until you try.  Breaking the copying up into multiple sessions is6 probably the most sure fire way to resolve the errors.   > 	 >  Gareth    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2006.210 ************************