OpenVMS

Rolling Roadmap
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is provided solely for your convenience. While the information
herein is based on our current best estimates, such information is
subject to change without notice.

June 7, 2017
 OpenVMS Rolling Roadmap
2017 2018 2019

Q1 Q1
JAVA 1.8 for Itanium (available now) OpenVMS V8.5 OpenVMS V9.x
Itanium Updates • Fully integrated VSI TCP/IP Itanium and x86-64
• Digital Signing for ISVs (available now) • Enhanced Password Management • Security
• OpenSSL 1.0.2k (available now) • Updated ACPI (Advanced Configuration & - Secure Boot
Power Interface) - Encrypted Crash Dumps
Q2 • OpenVMS components/LPs, SSL1 updates - Volume (Data-at-Rest) Encryption
Alpha Layered Products (available now) • CRTL: C99 features, header updates • Enhanced Application Isolation and
Itanium Updates Management
Q3 • HPE Integrity i6-based servers • Supports 64+ Cores
VSI TCP/IP 10.5 Q4 x86-64 General Release
Itanium Updates OpenVMS V9.0 • Native Build
• 64b Availability Manager Itanium General Release • More virtual machine guest options
• 16 Gb Fibre Channel support • 32 Gb Fibre Channel • OpenJDK
• VCI 2.0: better network performance • Dynamic Binary Translator for Alpha and
Q4 • Stronger Password Encryption Itanium Images
Update to Java 1.8 • VMS Advanced File System • Same Itanium compilers plus updates for:
- Support for Disks > 2TB - C
- Performance improvement - C++
• PTP (Precision Time Protocol) - Fortran

x86-64 Early Adopter Release

• Cross-built on Itanium
• OpenVMS as a virtual machine guest
• Selected HPE Servers (Intel & AMD)
• Graphical Boot Manager

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in this roadmap is based on
our current, best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
 Research Areas
• Virtual Machine Guest • Security
− kvm − Encrypted Communications
− xen
− VirtualBox • Additional Scripting Language
− VMware • Open Source Databases
• Containers / Docker − Ingres
− MariaDB
• Hadoop − PostgreSQL
• Cloud • Infiniband
− OpenStack
• Blockchain Technology
− Rackspace
− Apache jclouds • iSCSI
• RoCEv2

• UTF-8

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current, best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
 OpenVMS Operating Environment
May 2015
Released Planned
September 2015

BOE Components: BOE Components:

• V8.4-2L1 operating system • NOTARY 1.0 • CSWS additional modules
• ACMELDAP • OpenSSL 1.02K • GNV Updates
• ANT 1.7.1B • PERL 5.20-2A • CIFS Update
• AXIS2 B1.0-1 • TCP/IP 5.7-13ECO5F
• CDSA 2.4-322A • The Data Collector 2.3-20A
• CIFS 1.2-ECO1A • UDDI 1.0-B
• CSWS 2.4-3G • VSI Binary Checker 1.2
• CSWS_JAVA 8.5-4 • WBEM/CIM 3.0-B151019
• CSWS_PHP 5.2-17A • WBEM providers 2.2-5C
• DCPS 3.2A • WSIT 3.4-1
• DECnet Phase IV • XML C++ 3.0-1-1
• DECnet Phase V • XML_JAVA 4.0-1
• DECram
• DECwindows Motif 1.7E HAOE components:
• DCE (runtime) 3.2A
• Availability Manager 3.2
• ENCRYPT
• RMS Journaling
• Enterprise Directory 5.8
• Volume Shadowing
• Kerberos 3.2-260
• OpenVMS Cluster Client
• LDAP
• OpenVMS Cluster Software
• RTR 5.3
These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
 OpenVMS Layered Products
Released
May 2015 September 2015
Planned
•
•
ABS / MDMS 4.6
ACMS dev, remote, runtime 5.2 • 2016
OMNI / OSAP
• JVMS Phase 2
• BASIC 1.8-4
• C 7.4-1
• C++ 7.4-6
• COBOL 3.1-7-1
• Datatrieve 7.4-1
• DECforms dev, runtime 4.2
• DECset 4.8
(CMS, DTM, MMS, SCA, LSE, PCA)
• DFO 3.3
• DFS 2.5
• DQS 1.4
• FMS dev, runtime 2.6
• FORTRAN 8.3-3-1
• MRU 1.9
• PASCAL 6.2
• SSM 1.9-1
• TDMS dev, runtime 2.1-1
• JVMS Phase 1 V4.2
These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
Open Source Products Tested on OpenVMS
Available
May 2015 Investigating
September 2015

• ActiveMQ 5.10.0 • Erlang

2016
• cURL and libcURL 7.49.0 (includes OpenSSL 1.0.2h • Python
support) • R
• Lua 5.2.3 • Scala 2.11.8
• Mosquitto 1.3.5 (MQTT broker) • Maven 3.3.9
• Paho-C 1.0.3 (MQTT client)
• PHP 5.6.10
• Ruby 2.2.2
• Subversion 1.8.13
• SWIG 3.0.5
• vgit
• ZeroMQ 4.1.2
• gSOAP 2.8.32

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
 Prior VSI OpenVMS Releases
May 2015 March 2016 September 2016

OpenVMS V8.4-1H1 OpenVMS V8.4-2 OpenVMS V8.4-2L1

Itanium® Processor 9500 series HPE Integrity System Support Limited Software Release
• New CPU architecture • Full BL890c Support • Updated SSL to 1.0.2h
• Vastly improved performance - 64 Cores (hyperthreads off) • Updated key exchanges
- 1.5 TB Memory • 0.9.8/1.0.2 coexistence mechanism
HP Integrity System Support • AUTOGEN (large memory) • VSI and HPE libraries and shareable
• rx2800 • UEFI 2.3 images are compatible
• HP Integrity Server Blades • Network Boot for i4 Blades • 0.9.8 no longer supported
- BL860c • WBEM for i4
- BL870c • rx7640 / rx8640 SSL-Related Capabilities
- BL890c • Updated for compatibility with 1.0.2:
• Blades FlexFabric LAN support Performance TCP/IP, ENCRYPT, NOTARY, LDAP,
• 9300 series blades and rx2800 • More alignment faults eliminated ACMELDAP, Enterprise Directory,
• Tunable BACKUP Compression WBEM services, WBEM providers,
Software CSWS
• Quality Enhancements Software Component Updates
- Operating System • Enterprise Directory 5.7 Patch Kits
- Layered Products • CSWS (based on Apache 2.4.12) • Includes contents of patch kits issued
• Product Rebranding • LDDRIVER 9.7 through June 15, 2016
• Latest Time Zone Definitions
• I18N (for localized language support)
• Digital Signing 2.0
• Rebranding 2.0

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
 Prior VSI OpenVMS Releases
October 2016 January 2017

OpenVMS Japan OpenVMS Alpha V8.4-2L1

Localization Kit Available for Same functionality as Integrity version
• OpenVMS V8.4-2
• OpenVMS V8.4-2L1
Included Localized Products
• DECforms (Development kit)
• V4.2DECforms (Runtime kit)
• V4.2DECprint Supervisor
• (DCPS) V2.8DECwindows Motif
• V1.7EFMS (Development kit)
• V2.6FMS (Runtime kit) V2.6

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in
this roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
VSI OpenVMS
Support Roadmap

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is provided solely for your convenience. While the information
herein is based on our current best estimates, such information is
subject to change without notice.

June 7, 2017
VSI OpenVMS Service Roadmap
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

Standard Support PVS †

8.4-1H1

8.4-2 Standard Support PVS †

Integrity 8.4-2L1 Standard Support PVS †

8.x Standard Support

9.0 Standard Support

X86 9.0 Standard Support

5 Year Standard Support + 2 Year PVS minimum

PVS – Prior Version Support without Sustaining Engineering
† 24-month notice provided before support end. Also, Extended Engineering Support (EES)
contracts are available.

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in this
roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
VSI OpenVMS Service Roadmap
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

8.4-2L1 Standard Support PVS †

Alpha
8.4-2L2 Standard Support PVS †

5 Year Standard Support + 2 Year PVS minimum

PVS – Prior Version Support without Sustaining Engineering
† 24-month notice provided before support end. Also, Extended Engineering Support (EES)
contracts are available.

These roadmaps contain forward looking statements and are provided solely for your convenience. While the information in this
roadmap is based on our current best estimates, such information is subject to change without notice.
VSI Support Services Portfolio
Bronze 9X5 Silver 24X7 Gold 24X7 Platinum 24x7
Support Support Support Support

• Dedicated phone number provided

• Standard support phone number • Standard support phone number • Standard support phone number on sign-up
provided provided provided
• Right to new major releases of a
• Right to new major releases of a • Right to new major releases of a • Right to new major releases of a VSI product
VSI product VSI product VSI product
• Access to all software
• Access to all software • Access to all software • Access to all software updates/patches provided
updates/patches provided updates/patches provided updates/patches provided between numbered releases
between numbered releases between numbered releases between numbered releases
• Technical Support 24 hours a day,
• Technical Support 9 hours a day, • Technical Support 24 hours a • Technical Support 24 hours a 7 days a week
during 5 business days a week day, 7 days a week day, 7 days a week
• Assigned a remote Technical
• Provides periodic VSI updates • Provides periodic VSI updates • Assigned a remote Technical Account Manager (TAM)
• 4 hour response from initial Account Manager (TAM)
• 2 hour response from initial • Quarterly VSI software patch
customer contact. This assumes customer contact. This assumes • VSI software patch analysis analysis
that the customer uses the that the customer uses the
standard support phone line • VSI software system health • Quarterly VSI software system
standard support phone line
provided to the customer by VSI. checks health checks
provided to the customer by VSI.
• Provides periodic VSI updates • Provides periodic VSI updates
• 1 hour response from initial • Immediate response from initial
customer contact. This assumes customer contact. This assumes
that the customer uses the that the customer uses the
standard support phone line dedicated phone line provided to
provided to the customer by VSI. the customer by VSI.
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