Seamless Migration: VMS/OpenVMS RTRV2 to Linux RTRV3 with VX/RTR
Sector7's VX/RTR solution facilitates the smooth transition of legacy VMS / OpenVMS Reliable Transaction Router (RTR) Version 2 (RTRV2) applications to modern Linux environments utilizing RTR Version 3 (RTRV3). This migration is critically enabled by the powerful VX/RT Asynchronous Backplane, which forms the foundation for this advanced compatibility.
A key challenge in such migrations is the handling of VMS Asynchronous System Traps (ASTs). VX/RTR, in conjunction with Sector7's proprietary AST implementation (S7 ASTs), ensures that the asynchronous event handling crucial to RTRV2 applications is faithfully replicated on Linux. The VX/RT Asynchronous Backplane provides the necessary infrastructure for this, allowing RTRV2 Application Programming Interface (API) calls from the original VMS / OpenVMS applications to be seamlessly mapped onto their corresponding RTRV3 calls on the Linux platform. This comprehensive approach ensures that the intricate dependencies on system-level services, often managed through SYS$ routines, are correctly addressed.
The result is a transparent compatibility layer provided by VX/RTR, ensuring that your existing OpenVMS applications reliant on RTRV2 can operate on modern Linux systems with RTRV3, preserving their original functionality and behavior without requiring extensive code rewrites or manual intervention. This significantly reduces project risk, timelines, and costs associated with modernizing mission-critical transaction processing systems, leveraging the full capabilities of the VX/RT APIs for a robust and future-proof solution.
