SPRs and vmssoftware.com

On 2025-07-09, hb0815 <mw40171@mucweb.de> wrote:

>
However, anyone can submit a System
Improvement Request (SIR).
>

Is that what used to be called a SPR ? :-)

Doing a:

site:vmssoftware.com "System improvement request"

in duckduckgo does not show anything however.

Doing a:

site:vmssoftware.com "software performance report"

in duckduckgo shows multiple SPR references, but it appears to only be
in the documentation, not within VSI-generated material. For example, in:

https://docs.vmssoftware.com/docs/OpenVMS-system-messages-and-recovery-procedures-reference-manual-m-z.pdf

in section 1.5.4, you are told to file a SPR with Digital. :-)

BTW, I looked up the Whois information for vmssoftware.com (I was curious)
and found it was registered on 2008-12-27. I wonder how long they had been
planning to setup VSI ?

Also, I am not convinced that saying "OpenVMS V9.2-3 is available and
running on over 200 servers worldwide and the Cloud." on their homepage
gives the message you expect it to. If that's true, then the VMS user base
appears to have finally undergone a massive reduction.

Simon.

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