From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 10/8/2025 2:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   > VSI has published final agenda:   
   >      https://events.vmssoftware.com/bootcamp-2025/agenda   
      
   Besides all the "standard VSI updates" and   
   "DECUS style presentations", then a few items caught my   
   attention:   
      
      
   Oracle Rdb Update, Kevin Duffy   
      
   This presentation covers support dates for the Oracle Rdb product   
   family; a release history over the past year; details on the content of   
   the new releases; an update on the progress of the x86 port; Oracle Rdb   
   in the Oracle Cloud; current project priorities and product roadmaps.   
   This talk also includes a Call to Action for those interested the Oracle   
   Rdb product family on x86-64.   
      
      
   sounds like this where the audience should show up with huge   
   banners "We want Rdb on VMS x86-64 and we want it now!!!!".   
      
      
   Driver Modernization for OpenVMS x86, Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos   
      
   One key aspect of OpenVMS evolution is the modernization of some legacy   
   device drivers by transitioning them from VAX MACRO to C implementations   
   in alignment with the OpenVMS x86 features and supported hypervisors. In   
   parallel, new drivers need to be designed for better integration with   
   current hardware and virtualization environments. This session will   
   explore both the modernization of existing drivers and the design   
   challenges of new ones that are optimized for the x86 platform. It will   
   also address the distinction between hypervisor-independent drivers and   
   those tailored to specific hosts. Attendees will gain insight into the   
   principles and technical challenges involved in porting drivers to   
   OpenVMS x86, ensuring compatibility, performance, and long-term   
   maintainability.   
      
      
   sounds like a very nice update on the not so well documented   
   area of VMS device drivers.   
      
      
   Running a VMSCluster on a Kubernetes Cluster, Kyle Brown   
      
   In this presentation I would like to go over the initial   
   setup/configuration of an OpenVMS cluster inside of Kubevirt which   
   enables running virtual machines inside of Kubernetes like any other   
   container workload. The underlying technology is QEMU, which is a   
   hypervisor supported by VSI. For customers who are currently running   
   OpenShift by Red Hat this will provide insights to anyone who would want   
   to migrate to x86 VMS in this sort of environment. At a high level, a   
   discussion of Kubernetes requirements will be gone over, how to upload   
   your installation medium, and a demonstration of a VMSCluster that is   
   running inside of this environment. I would then go over some reasons as   
   to why you would build your environment like this (Show internal cluster   
   communication, taking advantage of cloud/Kubernetes backups, container   
   lifecycle, and a running application having traffic stay internal to   
   Kubernetes)   
      
      
   sounds like a great way to make VMS fit into a corporate   
   infrastructure strategy based on k8s, whether it is on-prem   
   (OpenShift) or cloud (AKS, EKS etc.).   
      
      
   RMS Change Data Capture (Introduction to RMS CDC), Brian Schenkenberger   
      
   This is an overview of what RMS Change Data Capture is on OpenVMS and   
   what it can do for event driven architectures.   
      
      
   sounds like a good intro to something very useful - a way to do CDC   
   for legacy VMS application using RMS index-sequential files for   
   critical business data. Most enterprises want to use CDC to   
   propagate datra over to data warehouses, data lakes, audit systems,   
   SIEM systems etc.. CDC is a standard feature of most RDBMS, but data   
   in RMS index-sequential files are obviously just as relevant!   
      
   Arne   
      
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