Migration Specialties Europe is a sole proprietorship owned by Camiel Vanderhoeven, headquartered in Netterden, the Netherlands. We have agents in the UK.

Headquarters (The Netherlands)

Central European Timezone (CET = GMT+1; CEST = GMT+2)

UK Agents

British Timezone (BT = GMT; BST = GMT+1)

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking." - Henry Ford

Migration Specialties Europe is a privately held company founded in 2009. The company provides products and services targeting OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX users running on HP Alpha and Integrity hardware. These solutions also cover legacy Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation VAX and Alpha hardware. Migration Specialties is an active member of HP's AllianceONE, Intel's Software Partner, and Microsoft's Partner programs. The company is based out of Netterden, the Netherlands.

Migration Specialties Europe products and services are available worldwide. Our business focuses on preserving important software while upgrading the legacy hardware that supports it. We offer remote and onsite delivery options.

Migration Specialties Europe provides quality products and services on time at reasonable rates. We pride ourselves on excellence and honesty. We are experts in our field and do not sell products or services we cannot support.

Privacy Policy

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Privacy is important to us. Information provided to Migration Specialties Europe is treated as confidential and is only shared with our affiliates in-so-far as is necessary to provide the services requested. We do not provide contact information such as e-mail addresses, phone numbers, or surface addresses to marketing organizations or spammers. We actively work to suppress junk mail, Internet spam, ad-ware and spyware.

Mailing Lists

Migration Specialties Europe does not do blind mailings. If you receive written correspondence from us, it's because someone here physically perused a list of contacts and decided the information at hand would be of interest to you.

References

From time to time we receive requests for references from prospective clients. We may request that a client act as a reference if we have provided them with a similar service. We will only provide client contact information to a prospect with the client's permission.

Articles

We occasionally publish articles concerning our business, products, and services. Client organizations may be identified in general terms in these articles. We never provide specific client information or contacts without first obtaining permission.

Ethics

"The difficulty with trust and character is that it does not show up on a balance sheet." - Professor Richard Tedlow

Migration Specialties Europe operates in an honest, forthright manner. We build our relationships on trust and integrity. Our business and employees follow a strong code of ethics designed to protect the company, the employees, our clients, and our vendors.

Code of Ethics

• We always conduct business with honesty and integrity.
• We follow the letter and the spirit of the law.
• Employees and contractors should treat each other and our customers fairly.
• Employees and contractors should act in the best interest of the company and avoid conflicts of interest.
• Employees and contractors must protect company assets and reputation.

Migration Specialties is a leader in the development of VAX and Alpha hardware virtualization software and specialized migration tools.

Alpha Virtualization

Migration Specialties Avanti Virtual Alpha and FreeAXP products virtualize legacy Digital, Compaq, and HP Alpha hardware, hosting it under Microsoft Windows® with no changes to the Alpha software. Avanti improves the reliability of legacy OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX applications while reducing their operating footprint. The Windows host environment can be fully virtualized under products such as VMware®. Alpha source code is not necessary and recompilation is not required.

VAX Virtualization

Migration Specialties provides VAX Virtualization solutions for DEC VAX hardware using SimH VAX hosted on Microsoft Windows. Like our virtual Alpha solutions, SimH VAX allows VAX VMS applications to be fully virtualized under products such as VMware® with no changes to the legacy applications. Source code and recompiles are not required.

VMS_INFO.COM is a simple DCL command procedure that gathers OpenVMS system information on VAX, Alpha, and Integrity systems. The information is written to the file VMS.TXT, which can then be e-mailed to Migration Specialties Europe for review. The information provides us with the basic structure and configuration of your OpenVMS system. We need this information to provide an OpenVMS system replacement quote. We also need the information to properly configure an OpenVMS system replacement package. The procedure does not provide any proprietary information and it does not examine any application data. All customer data is treated as confidential.

Details concerning the purpose of each command in the VMS_INFO.COM procedure follow the procedure box on this page.

Running VMS_INFO.COM

1. Cut and paste the VMS_INFO.COM procedure in the following box onto your PC. Pasting the text into Notepad works well. Save the file on your PC.
2. Transfer VMS_INFO.COM to each OpenVMS system you would like to have assessed.
3. Run the procedure using the following command. Note there is no space between the procedure name and the /OUTPUT qualifier:

   $ @VMS_INFO/OUTPUT=VMS.TXT

4. E-mail us the resulting VMS.TXT file(s). Please include a brief description of the primary function of each OpenVMS system.

   Example: Node AJAX supports an RDB database application that underlies a warehouse management system. Some application development also takes place on this system.

$! VMS_INFO.COM
$!      Migration Specialties OpenVMS System Assessment Procedure
$!
$!      This procedure gathers system information required for an
$!      OpenVMS system replacement assessment.  The procedure in
$!      no way modifies the OpenVMS environment.  All customer
$!      data is treated as confidential.
$!
$!      Instructions:
$!      - Log into the SYSTEM account or another privileged account.
$!      - Execute this procedure using the following command:
$!
$!        $ @VMS_INFO.COM/OUTPUT=VMS.TXT
$!
$!        NOTE: There are no spaces in the command line.
$!      - E-mail the resulting VMS.TXT file to Migration Specialties.
$!        Our e-mail address is available at
$!        http://www.migrationspecialties.com/ContactUs.html
$!
$!      Depending upon the version of VMS in use, some of these
$!      commands may generate errors.  SET NOON allows the procedure
$!      to continue despite the errors.
$ SET NOON                             !Ignore errors.
$ VFY = F$VERIFY(1)                    !Verification on
$ ANALYZE /SYSTEM                      !Hardware info
CLUE CONFIG
$ SHOW CPU /FULL                       !CPU Info
$ SHOW LOGICAL SYS$SYSROOT             !System boot info
$ SHOW SYSTEM                          !O/S & process info
$ SHOW MEMORY                          !Memory info
$ SHOW NETWORK                         !Network info
$ SHOW NETWORK /FULL
$ SHOW CLUSTER                         !Cluster info
$ SHOW LICENSE                         !License info
$ SHOW LICENSE /CHARGE
$ TYPE SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT        !Customized system configuration parameters
$ PRODUCT SHOW PRODUCT                 !Installed product info
$ SHOW QUEUE /FULL                     !Batch and print queue info
$ SHOW DEVICE                          !Physical and logical device info (brief)
$ SHOW DEVICE /FULL                    !Physical and logical device info (detailed)
$ VFY = F$VERIFY(VFY)                  !Verification restore
$ EXIT

VMS_INFO.COM Command Descriptions

• ANALYZE /SYSTEM
  Provides basic hardware information.
• SHOW CPU /FULL
  Displays the hardware CPU model and related information.
• SHOW LOGICAL SYS$SYSROOT
  This shows where the system booted from and can reveal Local Area VAX Cluster (LAVC) configurations.
• SHOW SYSTEM
  The header provides the operating system version number. The process list provides information about the services running on the system.
• SHOW MEMORY
  Shows the amount of system memory.
• SHOW NETWORK & SHOW NETWORK /FULL
  Provides information on the network infrastructure.
• SHOW CLUSTER
  Provides node and cluster information.
• SHOW LICENSE
  Lists the software licensed on the system.
• SHOW LICENSE /UNITS or SHOW LICENSE/CHARGE
  Shows the specific number of license units required per category for the system type. This helps determine which virtual VAX or Alpha models will support your applications using your existing license units.
• TYPE SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT
  Display the contents of the system MODPARAMS.DAT file. This helps us determine how the system is configured and whether it has any special performance requirements.
• PRODUCT SHOW PRODUCT
  List software products installed on system.
• SHOW QUEUE /FULL
  List all batch and print queues on system.
• SHOW DEVICE /FULL
  Lists all the physical and logical devices on the system along with their connection information.