INFO-VAX Wed, 09 Jul 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 380 Contents: Another BIND vulnerability (cache poisoning) Re: Another new VMS system. Re: Another new VMS system. Re: Another new VMS system. Re: Another new VMS system. Re: Another new VMS system. inserting row to RDB with key returned Re: inserting row to RDB with key returned Re: inserting row to RDB with key returned Re: Python for VMS RDB insert with returned key Re: Show of support for Distributed NetBeans Re: Show of support for Distributed NetBeans Re: VMS SAN Primer Why did process quota go down? Re: Why did process quota go down? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:36:16 -0400 From: JF Mezei Subject: Another BIND vulnerability (cache poisoning) Message-ID: <4874323d$0$2045$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Slashdot article: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/08/195225 Offfical CERT article: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113 The CERT announcement only goes by company name, and there is no status from HP. At least Microsoft has quickly acklnowledged that its virus collection software known as Windows is vulnerable. Alpha VMS hjas Bind 9. VAX-VMS is Bond 8, but then HP has never acknowledged/provided any "vulnerable/not-vulnerable status for the many BIND-8 issues over the years. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:36:08 -0500 From: Michael Austin Subject: Re: Another new VMS system. Message-ID: Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: > See http://www.sgx.com/ > Click "SGX moves to new securities trading engine". > > Or see : http://tinyurl.com/5zpm8k for a > less-capable-browser-version... I find no information (in google...) that describes the actual platform this runs on... I cannot even find anything on Quest-ST - do you have a source that describes the platform? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:25:56 GMT From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= Subject: Re: Another new VMS system. Message-ID: Michael Austin wrote: > Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: >> See http://www.sgx.com/ >> Click "SGX moves to new securities trading engine". >> >> Or see : http://tinyurl.com/5zpm8k for a >> less-capable-browser-version... > > > I find no information (in google...) that describes the actual platform > this runs on... I cannot even find anything on Quest-ST - do you have a > source that describes the platform? No, there isn't any. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 06:55:57 +0800 From: "Richard Maher" Subject: Re: Another new VMS system. Message-ID: Hi, "Jan-Erik Söderholm" wrote in message news:5CHck.777$U5.393@newsb.telia.net... > See http://www.sgx.com/ > Click "SGX moves to new securities trading engine". > > Or see : http://tinyurl.com/5zpm8k for a > less-capable-browser-version... Great news! Especially as this is after the Nasdaq OMX acquisition. Cheers Richard Maher PS. If anyone knows (or bothers to work out) what the Java Applet is for on that page then please let me know. (Live ticker "push" technology?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:02:41 -0600 From: Keith Parris Subject: Re: Another new VMS system. Message-ID: Michael Austin wrote: > I find no information (in google...) that describes the actual platform > this runs on... I cannot even find anything on Quest-ST - do you have a > source that describes the platform? The key phrase is "a Nasdaq OMX trading engine." OMX-based exchanges have an OpenVMS disaster-tolerant cluster at their core. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:08:34 -0700 From: "Jeffrey H. Coffield" Subject: Re: Another new VMS system. Message-ID: Richard Maher wrote: > Hi, > > "Jan-Erik Söderholm" wrote in message > news:5CHck.777$U5.393@newsb.telia.net... >> See http://www.sgx.com/ >> Click "SGX moves to new securities trading engine". >> >> Or see : http://tinyurl.com/5zpm8k for a >> less-capable-browser-version... > > Great news! Especially as this is after the Nasdaq OMX acquisition. > > Cheers Richard Maher > > PS. If anyone knows (or bothers to work out) what the Java Applet is for on > that page then please let me know. (Live ticker "push" technology?) > > I can't easily tell if this is the same concept, but look at www.monex.com. That ticker simply reads a file every few minutes that is updated by the trading system which is an OpenVMS cluster. Jeff Coffield www.digitalsynergyinc.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 13:35:50 -0700 (PDT) From: CodeAmazon Subject: inserting row to RDB with key returned Message-ID: <152e0736-aece-4917-b293-4ab87b6ac254@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> I'd like to insert a new record into a table in my database and get back the automatically generated key to use in an insertion in another table subsequently. My first thought would be to use java.sql.Statement's execute(stmt,Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS) method, and then retrieve the value. I've tried that and several other variants, with "unsupported feature" errors as the result. What is the best way to insert a row and grab the automatically generated key value from within a Java program. We're running Oracle Rdb V7.2-120, and Java 1.5.0 Thanks, Shasta ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:30:52 GMT From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= Subject: Re: inserting row to RDB with key returned Message-ID: CodeAmazon wrote: > I'd like to insert a new record into a table in my database and get > back the automatically generated key to use in an insertion in another > table subsequently. > > My first thought would be to use java.sql.Statement's > execute(stmt,Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS) method, and then > retrieve the value. I've tried that and several other variants, with > "unsupported feature" errors as the result. > > What is the best way to insert a row and grab the automatically > generated key value from within a Java program. We're running Oracle > Rdb V7.2-120, and Java 1.5.0 > > Thanks, > Shasta I had a very similar "problem" with Python just the other day. Rdb Dynamic SQL (which all/most non-compiled Rdb interfaces are built on) do not support the RETURNING clause of the INSERT statement). One workaround is to "return" the value into a variable and later SELECT that variable in a separate statement. Here is what works in Python : http://www.pi-net.dyndns.org/piforum/viewtopic.php?t=129 Regards, Jan-Erik Soderholm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:42:30 GMT From: winston@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) Subject: Re: inserting row to RDB with key returned Message-ID: <00A7C491.5062E0DB@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> In article <152e0736-aece-4917-b293-4ab87b6ac254@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, CodeAmazon writes: >I'd like to insert a new record into a table in my database and get >back the automatically generated key to use in an insertion in another >table subsequently. > >My first thought would be to use java.sql.Statement's >execute(stmt,Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS) method, and then >retrieve the value. I've tried that and several other variants, with >"unsupported feature" errors as the result. > >What is the best way to insert a row and grab the automatically >generated key value from within a Java program. We're running Oracle >Rdb V7.2-120, and Java 1.5.0 I couldn't make this work with Ibatis under Java on Java 1.5.0 and Rdb 7.2; couldn't make the "returning dbkey" accept a result value, and I've currently got a bad workaround in place (write it out with a known unique value and then do a separate select to recover the dbkey). If you get a good answer to this, please post it here. You might also want to try on the oraclerdb mailing list a jcc.com -- Alan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:25:04 GMT From: winston@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) Subject: Re: Python for VMS Message-ID: <00A7C48E.E0987E87@SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> In article <4873856b$0$1277$426a34cc@news.free.fr>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Pi=E9ronne?= writes: >As requested by someone Python can, now, be used with Apache (CSWS). >One of my friend has successfully ported mod_python and mod_wsgi on >OpenVMS IA64. Some simple scripts and a more large application like >django run without any problem. >If someone want to try it, let me know. It'll take me a while to get to where I can use it, but I'm very much interested in the Apache mods, especially if they're packaged as nicely as your distributions. Thanks for all the great tech you bring in to the VMS world and make available. -- Alan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:10:28 -0700 (PDT) From: CodeAmazon Subject: RDB insert with returned key Message-ID: I'm trying to insert a row in an Oracle Rdb V7.2-120 database, using Java 1.5. I need to capture the automatically generated key for use in the next step of my program. My default assumption would be to use java.sql.Statement's execute(stmt, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS) and then check the results. Unfortunately that (and all similar execute options I've tried) return an unsupported feature error. Can someone point me to a solution for getting back the key value, or to the API for supported features in the native driver? - Shasta ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:39:36 -0500 From: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: Show of support for Distributed NetBeans Message-ID: Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: > > When I tested Dist NB last fall, a major showstopper was that > it was impossible to get it running remotely over a pair > of DSL modems/routers with my Windows laptop on a NAT'ed > home network ("kitchen table") and the Alpha behind another > NAT router in my office down-town. The way RMI (the remote > Java call) works, it gets uppset by the NAT'ed > networks. I do not know of any current workaround for that. There is a workaround for a NAT-related problem described in the Known Problems and Restrictions section of the installation guide at: I'm not 100% sure that's exactly your problem, but it might be worth a look. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:42:57 -0500 From: David J Dachtera Subject: Re: Show of support for Distributed NetBeans Message-ID: <487417A1.CC9B6A8B@spam.comcast.net> "Craig A. Berry" wrote: > > Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote: > > > > > When I tested Dist NB last fall, a major showstopper was that > > it was impossible to get it running remotely over a pair > > of DSL modems/routers with my Windows laptop on a NAT'ed > > home network ("kitchen table") and the Alpha behind another > > NAT router in my office down-town. The way RMI (the remote > > Java call) works, it gets uppset by the NAT'ed > > networks. I do not know of any current workaround for that. > > There is a workaround for a NAT-related problem described in the Known > Problems and Restrictions section of the installation guide at: > > > > I'm not 100% sure that's exactly your problem, but it might be worth a look. Unless Java is doing something it either shouldn't be doing or doesn't need to do, I don't see why it should care. I can FTP from the desk at work (W/XP-Pro, 10.x.x.x) to the Jensen at home (VMS V7.2-2, Multinet V4.4, 192.168.1.17) just fine using the Reflection/FTP client. Oddly enough, both Multinet and UCX choke. Haven't figured that one out yet... D.J.D. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:44:24 +0200 From: Johnny Billquist Subject: Re: VMS SAN Primer Message-ID: Ed Wilts skrev: > On Jul 5, 4:00 am, JF Mezei wrote: >> David J Dachtera wrote: >>> ...however, it is just storage. A LUN. It's still up to the host >>> operating environment to manage that storage. Such management is NOT the >>> array's job in a FCSF/SAN anymore than it would be in an HSJ on a >>> CI-based storage array. >> A CI would only support VMS (or I guess Ultrix/DEC Unix). > > CI is only for VMS. Ultrix never supported CI. Yes it did/do. I occasionally still boot Ultrix on our 8650, connected to a HSC90. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:17:55 -0700 (PDT) From: tadamsmar Subject: Why did process quota go down? Message-ID: I had a detached process that exceeded a quota: "-SYSTEM-F-EXBYTLM, exceeded byte count" quota and started to not work right. show proc/quota showed that it's Buffered I/O byte count quota had gone from ~98000 to ~980. Why would that happen? Any way to prevent that? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:29:40 -0400 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" Subject: Re: Why did process quota go down? Message-ID: tadamsmar wrote: > I had a detached process that exceeded a quota: > > "-SYSTEM-F-EXBYTLM, exceeded byte count" quota > > and started to not work right. > > show proc/quota showed that it's Buffered I/O byte count quota had > gone from ~98000 to ~980. Why would that happen? Any way to prevent > that? I'd make a wild ass guess that your process has a resource leak. What is your process supposed to be doing? What application are you running in that process. Etc, etc. It's probably not relevant in this case but in general it's a good idea to mention your hardware platform (VAX, Alpha, Itanic) and the version of VMS you are running. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.380 ************************