I recently acquired a VAXStation 3100/30 with VMS 5.5 installed. The licenses are expired. So I got new Hobbyist Licenses and registered VAX-VMS by hand on the console.
Logon at the console works, but when I try to logon using a serial connection (using PuTTY), It always looks like this:
Welcome to VAX/VMS V5.5-2H4
Username: SYSTEM
No license is active for this software product
Do I have to activate some more license in order to be able to use serial login?
Thank you very much Stephen! I finally found a solution. On startup, the system had been unable to load my VAX-VMS license: "%LICENSE-W-AMBIG, information provided was ambiguous; multiple licenses were found". Before installing the Hobbyist PAK for VAX-VMS, I should have done a "LICENSE DELETE /STATUS=EXTINCT *" or something.
Still I could not paste my other licenses into a serial connection window (PuTTY). After a few lines, input was blocked. "SET TERM/NOTTSYNC" didn't help. Do you have any idea which settings I should use in order to be able to paste larger amounts of text to a serial terminal emulation?
BertKlauninger wrote:
Still I could not paste my other licenses into a serial connection window (PuTTY). After a few lines, input was blocked. "SET TERM/NOTTSYNC" didn't help. Do you have any idea which settings I should use in order to be able to paste larger amounts of text to a serial terminal emulation?
What you need to do is boost the TTY_TYPAHDSZ parameter, which is the size of the buffer you're essentially pasting into. It's probably better to get enough of network up so you can FTP the rest of the data across. Cut-and-paste is sometimes a little dicey.
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses. Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc. Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG? I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
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MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
