Existing OpenVMS applications can be encapsulated as a COM object and a Windows NT COM client can then interact with the OpenVMS application. COM server applications can be created on OpenVMS that can be accessed by Windows NT systems or other COM-enabled operating systems. COM V1.1 for OpenVMS will authenticate COM method calls with full NTLM security. The new ODS-5 file structure extends OpenVMS Alpha file names to be consistent with those of Windows NT and Windows 95. Deep directories are of benefit to application developers who are porting applications from other environments that have support for deep directories.
Users can also benefit from the ability to have deeper hierarchical file storage.
Supported on OpenVMS Alpha. Provides a high performance communications path within a system and within a cluster. Allows application programmers to create connections between different processes on the same or different systems within a single OpenVMS Cluster system, resulting in improved application performance. No applications changes are needed to use clusterwide logicals. Next generation shared storage interconnect.