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Title:ACMS comments and questions
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Moderator:CLUSTA::HALLAN
Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4179
Total number of notes:15091

4108.0. "ACMS migration?" by HGOVC::PATRICKNG () Tue Feb 25 1997 09:21

    Hi,
    
    A customer wants to get information the future direction/development of
    ACMS. They have written a number of ACMS applications and to review
    whether they should continue more applications on ACMS.
    
    Is there a migration path to ACMSxp? What are benefits to migrate ACMS
    to ACMSxp? 
    
    They have about 5 high-end VAX on two clusters. The first step is to
    migrate the system to Alpha. They are looking for whitepaper to tell
    them migration afford and issues. Besides Writing and Migrating
    Applications for OpenVMS/AXP, is there any other source of good
    information for migration ACMS applications 
    
    
    Many thanks,
    Patrick
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4108.1OHMARY::HALLBill Hall - ACMS Engineering - ZKO2-2Tue Feb 25 1997 10:1810
    
    	As far as documentation, there is a ACMS Migration guide that is
    part of the ACMS documentation set.
    
    	ACMS is still being actively developed, in fact a new release is
    scheduled for April 1997. As far as futures go, we'd be interested
    in hearing what your customer plans on doing with ACMS and what
    features they'd like to see in the product.
    
    Bill
4108.2Web enabled?HGOVC::PATRICKNGTue Feb 25 1997 19:439
    Bill,
    
    A large customer asked whether ACMS has planned to go for Web front
    end.
    
    I like to hear the position of ACMS and ACMSxp. Should ACMS customer
    migrate to ACMSxp or stay in ACMS?
    
    Patrick
4108.3OHMARY::HALLBill Hall - ACMS Engineering - ZKO2-2Tue Feb 25 1997 20:5816
    
    	I can't comment too much in this public forum about what's
    	coming in future versions of ACMS but there are definite plans
    	to assist customers in adding Web front ends to existing
    	ACMS applications.  This technology already exists, we have
    	several customers that have already added this feature.
    	Our goal is to make it as easy as possible.
    
    	I'd suggest you contact the ACMS product manager, John Fergusen.
    	Some things are still in the very early planning stages but
    	we'd be interested in understanding what your customer wants,
    	the timeframe for implementation, and any other details they
    	might want to share.
    
    	Bill
4108.4OHMARY::HALLBill Hall - ACMS Engineering - ZKO2-2Tue Feb 25 1997 21:0415
    
    	I forgot to address your second concern, that is, ACMS vs
    	ACMSxp.  ACMS is still a very viable product and will continue
    	to be supported and enhanced well into the next century.
    	ACMSxp is targeted more towards new applications that must
    	exist in a more open environment or on other platforms
    	besides OpenVMS.  There are features in the next release
    	of ACMSxp that will allow ACMSxp tasks to call ACMS tasks
    	and still maintain the distributed transactions.
    
    	Again, contact John Ferguson or Jerry Hershey (ACMSxp Product
    	manager) for more details.
    
    	Bill