I have a MicroVAX 3100 on its way now, and as I understand the info I have found, VMS 4.x isn't supported on that machine?
- Peter On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM Wayne S <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you need vms 5.4 for a specific reason? > Can you use V4 instead? > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 1, 2025, at 19:50, Wayne S <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is pakgen.c on the internet > 🤔 > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 1, 2025, at 17:26, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Well, it works when I run VMS 4.4 and DECnet 4.0 so I must have something > wrong with the licenses under 5.4. > I do have the VAX-VMS and DVNETRTG licenses installed under 5.4 so I was > expecting it to work. Back to the drawing board I guess. > > Thank y'all for responding with suggestions. > - Peter > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM Antonio Carlini via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/12/2025 00:38, Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > > Decnet needed a license. > > I think that probably the license manager is called as part of running > > any licensed product before you can do anything. > > If you want to verify that it’s a licensing issue run a version of VMS > > before V5 and install Decnet. Licensing enforcement came out with version > > five so anything before that is not enforced. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Dec 1, 2025, at 16:18, Peter Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It doesn't specify the symbols, just states some or missing. > > > But I ran netconfig.com<http://netconfig.com> and specified the name > > and decnet address and specified end-node. > > When I run startnet I get the following (I ran this manually but got it > > from the startnet.com<http://startnet.com> script): > > > NCP>set known circuit all > > %NCP-W-OPEFAI, Operation failure > > Circuit = SVA-0 > > %SYSTEM-F-NOLICENSE, operation requires software license > > > What license is needed for circuits? > > > - Peter > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM Wayne S <[email protected]<mailto: > > [email protected]>> wrote: > > What symbols? Can you show some here? > > Maybe you have the wrong install script? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > Firstly V5 checked the kernel considerably so anything tied deeply to it > > (like DECnet) would need a new version, the V4.x stuff wouldn't work at > > all. Although with DECnet, as has been pointed out that shipped with VMS. > > > From V5.0 onwards you would need a PAK (licence PAK). You need one for > > VMS too, but it at least lets you log in once or maybe twice, so that > > you can enter the required licence PAK(s). > > For DECnet you get (IIRC) nothing without a licence PAK. Same for > > clustering and volume shadowing. > > > So you are probably missing just a licence PAK for DECnet. > > > Before V5 most things just ran, but both VMS and DECnet had licence > > tapes that increased the number of users allowed (in the case of VMS) or > > allowed DECnet functionality (in the case of DECnet). > > > So even with V4 you had to do something extra to get DECnet running. > > > > Antonio > > > > > -- > > Antonio Carlini > > [email protected] > > > >
