Specifications

Introduction to the OpenVMS Programming Environment
1.5 Database and Transaction Processing Support
Besides DEC Rdb and DEC DBMS, Digital also offers DEC ACCESSWORKS.
DEC ACCESSWORKS enables application programs, running on various desktop
computers, to access information in many database systems over PATHWORKS
network connections. The database systems from which DEC ACCESSWORKS
can retrieve information include the following:
• DEC Rdb
• RMS
• DEC DBMS
• ORACLE
• IBM DB2
• VSAM
• IMS
For more information about these products, see the OpenVMS Software Overview.
1.5.2 Transaction Processing Support
OpenVMS supports several Digital transaction processing products. DECtp is
a transaction processing system that provides control and management of TP
applications. DEC RTS (Reliable Transaction Monitor) is a distributed software
message routing system that supports TP applications. ACMS is an application
control and management system for developing, controlling, and maintaining
transaction processing applications.
For more information about these products, see the OpenVMS Software Overview.
1.6 Specialized Development Environments
Digital offers several products that provide specialized development
environments, such as DECADMIRE and DEC Forté. DECADMIRE enables
developers to generate ACMS, DECforms, or DEC Rdb applications. DEC Forté
is designed to address and manage the complexities of client/server computing. It
provides tools for screen design, an object fourth-generation language, an object
repository, an interpretive mode for testing, and graphical debugging.
For more information about these products, see the OpenVMS Software Overview.
1.7 Migration Tools and Documentation
Programs that run on OpenVMS VAX can be converted to run on OpenVMS
AXP systems by recompiling and relinking them, by translating them, or by a
combination of the two methods. A VAX MACRO compiler is provided with the
OpenVMS AXP operating system for compiling VAX MACRO programs into AXP
executable programs. The DEC compilers, such as DEC C and DEC Fortran,
provide special options for recompiling VAX C and VAX FORTRAN applications
to run on OpenVMS AXP.
DECmigrate for OpenVMS AXP, an optional product, is primarily used to
translate OpenVMS VAX images to run on OpenVMS AXP. The major component
of this product, the translator, is named the VAX Environment Software
Translator (VEST). DECmigrate for OpenVMS AXP can also be used to analyze
code to determine how easy or difficult it would be to migrate it.
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