Blogging and On-line Demos

ADMINS Office of Technical Support is working to expand the access its customers have to information about our ADMINS Toolkit products.

Our community of developers, maintainers and administrators is relatively small, but it stretches completely around the globe. The economic environment has made travel for face-to-face contact, especially in a group setting such as a Technical Seminar, harder and harder to justify. On the other hand technology has created greater opportunities to “get together” in extremely efficient and productive ways via the internet.

ADMINS OTS has made a commitment to explore the available technologies to see what methods work the best for you, our customers.

Today, we are announcing the ADMINS OTS Blog which debuts with four posts regarding Flash demos and presentations we have developed that describe new and under-development capabilities in ADMINS.

We hope this blog and presentation initiative provide more convenient, expanded access to information and conversation about ADMINS Toolkit products and services.

We are very interested in your feedback, both the on-line conversation we hope to start on the topics of the presentations, and also in a more general way, your ideas and comments on the blog and presentation initiative, and what other methods we should consider. This message is posted on the blog to initiate that general conversation.

Samba and ADMINS

Here is a flash presentation which gives you a look at HP OpenVMS CIFS (which is SAMBA for VMS) as used on OpenVMS Alpha and Itanium systems running ADMINS. You can use this presentation as a planning aid in making ADMINS datafiles on OpenVMS disks available to windows networks and windows users.

Also, here are useful links to:

• HP OpenVMS Systems Common Internet File System based on Samba    (html)
  
• HP OpenVMS CIFS Release Notes    (pdf)
  
• HP OpenVMS CIFS Administrator's Guide   (pdf)
  

RPX Work Shop

See the new RPX workshop Flash Demo. It's an introduction into coding the reporting environments for the powerful and flexible ADMINS Report Generator.

New Report Wizard

See the new flash demo that describes and demos the new enhanced front-end for the ADMINS Report Generator.

Browsing OpenVMS Reports

There's a new flash demo explaining how you can view ADMINS report output (EXCEL output, for example) automatically when you run the report on OpenVMS.