Because the smallest numeric variable that can be represented on the OpenVMS systems are different from each other (VAX, 2 bytes; Alpha, 3 bytes) numeric variables in OpenVMS VAX SAS files must be ...

Like anyone who has been in IT for a reasonable length of time I've worked with technologies that have lapsed, been superseded, died off or just simply gone out of vogue. Yet there are some my heart ...

Nonnative data must be converted before it can be accessed. There are two ways to convert nonnative data: convert the data "transparently" between the OpenVMS VAX format and the OpenVMS Alpha format ...

OpenVMS was supposed to have died a slow and unheralded death sometime during the 1990s. Labeled passe by analysts and “legacy” by Windows and Unix enthusiasts in the wake of the distributed computing ...