Masters Education Program
PARSEC’s Masters Education Program (MEP) isn't your typical online technical seminar.
What if each month you could be a part of a seminar that is geared towards creating best practices for legacy and state-of-art systems with topics such as OpenVMS Crash-Dump Analysis or IP Filtering on UNIX? Would it impress your boss if you learned new methods to ensure current relevance and utility for your company? Would it elevate your job performance, or help you solve a vexing problem? If so, save your seat now in PARSEC's next MEP!
Every month you will learn information inspired by actual case studies that you can apply on-the-spot. We pack technical and practical material into a comfortable 2 hour online session that tops off with ample time for Q&A and valued feedback. Bonus! You get exclusive access to download our extensive documentation at the time of each seminar. Here's a sample list of some of our past seminars:
- Road Trip! VMS Bootcamp 2016 Conference Report
- Bare-Metal System Recovery
- Cleaning Out the Cruft on OpenVMS
- Systemd and Other Major Changes in Redhat Linux 7
- Monitoring OpenVMS with Open-Source SNMP Tools
- OpenVMS Performance Tools
- IP Filtering on Unix
As a perk of being a much appreciated PARSEC support customer, each session is free. If your company is not yet benefiting from PARSEC’s support, you can join any MEP for a modest cost per person. Furthermore, if you sign up for a telephone support contract with us, within 30 days of attending the MEP, we will credit the seminar cost to your support invoice. For as long as you’re a support customer, you will not only enjoy the peace of mind in knowing you’re support needs are covered, but future seminars will be free as well.
Interesting Free Software for OpenVMS, part 2
Compared to Windows, it may seem like there are no free software packages on OpenVMS. You may be confused on why this is labeled part 2 when there was no part 1. Part 1 was the MEP on "Useful OpenVMS Tools in SYS$EXAMPLES or SYS$ETC", which was presented about 18 months earlier. Part 3 will be presented in the 'near future' regarding various open source tools. This MEP will be on freeware applications.
As astute reader will ask "what's the difference between 'freeware' and 'open source'?" For the sake of this discussion, the "freeware" ones are the ones available on the HP provided CDs.
This will not be an exhaustive list, but rather some highlighted ones available for your benefit. After the seminar you'll have a better sense of what is available to you, what is considered "safe" and where to find these software products.
Freeware
Location of the CDs
V7 CDs
Ask the Wizard
Bliss Kit
CDRECORD to Write CDs
EMACS Text Editor
FTSV for DECnet Transfers on bad Networks
FTSO for TCPIP Transfers on bad Networks
INFO-ZIP, the original ZIP on OpenVMS
LD - Logical Disk
LGILDAP - pre-HP LDAP
MINESEEK - Old Mine Seeker game from DOS 3.50 days
MMK - MadGoat Make Utility
MYSQL
NOTES - OpenVMS Bulletin Board
Python
Ruby
Spider Solatire
UNRAR for OpenVMS and VMSTAR
USB Freeware for Alpha
VMSFAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Xvmsutils - Port UNIX program to OpenVMS
V8 CDs
A2PS - Convert Ascii to PostScript
ADV_PIPE - PIPE command on VAX or Alpha
ANTIWORD - Read MS Word on OpenVMS
AUTO - Command completion
CD-ROM - Allow VAX to read CDs
CD_Player - Allow music to play on Alpha
CLUE$SDA_VAX - Brings the CLUE command from Alpha back to VAX
CMPDIR - Compare directories, similar to Differences command
CRON - VMS port of CRON utility
Curl - transfer files with URL syntax
CVTLIS - Convert compiler listings back to source code
DECNET - DECnet programming examples
DELTREE - Delete directory tree on VAX or Alpha
EMACS - EMACS for OpenVMS
FDEL - Fast Delete in Large Directories
FLORIAN - File Undelete on VAX and Alpha
FTP_MIRROR - Ensure this directory matches another and do FTP
HOFFMAN - Steve Hoffman's example C Programs
INVISIBLE - Hide Interactive process from SHOW USERS
LAST - Generate last login reports from UAF
LD - Logical Disk
MWAIT - Help diagnose why a process is in MWAIT state
NOTICE - Display notices upon login to VAX or Alpha
ODS2 - Read VMS ODS-2 disks on VMS, Windows, and UNIX9
PAKGEN - Create your own licenses for your products
PERL - PERL on Alpha OpenVMS
REMOTE - Execute DECnet commands on remote nodes
SPELL - Spell checker on OpenVMS VAX or Alpha
SYSLOGD - OpenVMS port of syslogd and logger on VAX and Alpha
VMSFAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
WATCHER - Idle process monitor and timeout tool
ZZZzzz - Have you fallen asleep yet?
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Leveraging AI for Unix, and OpenVMS Users
Artificial Intelligence is all the rage. As technologists we have experimented with the most state of the art AI bots such as ChatGPT 4 and Anthropic's Claude. Join us for some interactive demonstrations with the AI interfaces we use and ways to use it in order to make life easier with your classic UNIX or OpenVMS system. We'll also show you where the limits are and how it can fall apart.
1.0 Introduction
2.0 How to Use AI with Classic Systems
3.0 Large Language Models
3.1 OpenAI ChatGPT
3.2 Anthropic's Claude
3.3 Google's Deepmind and Gemini
3.4 Microsoft Bing Chat
4.0 Scripting with AI
4.1 UNIX Shell Script Demo
4.2 OpenVMS DCL Demo
4.3 Lua and Ruby Scripting with AI
4.4 PHP Scripting with AI
5.0 C Programming with AI
5.1 Coding Demo and the State of the Art
5.2 GITHub CoPilot and Microsoft Visual Studio
5.3 NeoVIM and Unixy Tools
5.4 The OpenAI CODEX
6.0 Other uses for AI
6.1 Generating Documentation
6.2 Chart, Graph, and Image Generation
This training session is scheduled - 1:00pm MDT. We link to www.worldtimeserver.com to convert to your local time. Note that this is planned as a 2 hour presentation to provide sufficient time to cover all of the topics. To register or to ask any questions, please contact us via e-mail to experts@parsec.com or fill out the inquiry page.
Worry-Free Delivery
PARSEC Group uses Zoom to deliver our e-Learning to our customers. Zoom provides several options for connecting to the class.
View system requirements here.
Audio is provided via Voice over IP (VoIP) and requires speakers, or a USB headset.
