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170.0. "Announcing OpenVMS V6.1 Update Train The Trainer " by TANG::RHINE (Jack, OpenVMS Training Product Manager) Fri Jan 14 1994 17:11

                         TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT
                         ---------------------

Name:           OpenVMS V6.1 VAX/AXP Update - Train the Trainer
Code:           EY-N465E-S0
Dates:          April 4 - April 8, 1994
Duration:       5.0 days (preliminary plan)

Limit:          70
Tuition:        None
Format:         Seminar with possible demos
Start Time:     8:30 a.m.
Taping:         This seminar will not be videotaped

Audience:       SPS Engineers and Specialists
                Learning Services Instructors
                Sales Support Specialists and Consultants

Location:       Babbage Conference Room, ZKO1-3
                Digital Equipment Corporation
                110 Spit Brook Road
                Nashua, NH 03062-2698

Enrollments:    You must enroll through VTX LEARNING.  

		PLEASE NOTE: It is assumed when you enroll, your manager is 
		committing you to deliver OpenVMS V6.1 Update Training to all 
		audiences in your facility.  Although a written statement
		from your manager is not required, enrollments will be spot
		checked.

		Because this course is intended for those who have direct
		technical contact with customers (DLS Instructors, MCS
		Instructors, MCS Support Engineers, Sales Support Specialists,
		and DC Consultants) other internal enrollees, even after being
		confirmed, are subject to being replaced by services personnel
		and instructors who are wait listed up until one week before
		the seminar.

Prerequisites:	There are no specific prerequisites.  However, since this is
		a train the trainer, sufficient technical competence in OpenVMS
		at the internals level to teach others is expected.


Preliminary Agenda:

The following is a list of topics that are likely to be covered.  A firm agenda
will be available after the first week in March.  Most of the sessions will be
taught by engineers.

POTENTIAL ADDITIONAL TOPICS
---------------------------

  OpenVMS VAX and AXP V6.1 Overview
  Fullnames
  Debug/Heap analysis 
  DECwindows server
  New and Reintegrated Hardware Support 
  RSM Enhancements
  ISO Distributed Queue Enhancements
  Infoserver Tape Backup
  AXP Step 2 Drivers
  AXP Remaining Kernel Functionality
  AXP PCSI Installation (No Standalone Backup)
  AXP C as a Programming Language
  AXP Debugger/HL
  BASIC V1.0 (Native AXP)
  AXP DECevent
  AXP Performance Tuning  
  File Shelving
  Media Management Extensions (MME)
  XQP Enhancements (PATHWORKS)
  DCL Parity in AXP
  ERF
  Dual Architecture Clusters (Warranty Released Pairs)
  LMF
  Phase V DECnet
  DECdtm
  VAX/AXP Functional Equivalence 
  RMS Key Search Option ("<")
  DECadmds
  DCE
  Open/POSIX
  CLU 
  Documentation Updates


  Shadowing
  Future Releases: Argus, Dragon/Zeta, Eagle/Theta
  Licensing
  Future:  Worldview/Bookreader




                   





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                   DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
                   110 SPIT BROOK ROAD
                   NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE  03062

FROM LOGAN AIRPORT
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FROM LOGAN AIRPORT TAKE SUMNER TUNNEL (TOLL $1.00) 
END OF TUNNEL GO UP RAMP FOR ROUTE 3 AND 93 NORTH
MERGE LEFT AT TOP OF RAMP, FOLLOWING SIGNS FOR RTE 93 NORTH
REMAIN ON 93 NORTH TO ROUTE 495 SOUTH (APPROX 20 MI.)
TAKE 495 SOUTH TO ROUTE 3 NORTH
FOLLOW ROUTE 3 NORTH TO NEW HAMPSHIRE BORDER
TAKE EXIT 1 AT SPIT BROOK ROAD
AT BOTTOM OF EXIT RAMP, TAKE LEFT, GO PAST FIRST SET OF LIGHTS
   AND TURN RIGHT AT SHERATON TARA SIGNS AT LIGHTS
FOLLOW THAT ROAD TO ZKO BUILDINGS. 


FROM MANCHESTER AIRPORT - SERVICED BY UNITED, US AIR, AND COMMUTER AIRLINES
-----------------------

FROM THE TERMINAL FOLLOW EXIT SIGNS TO THE EXIT ROAD
FOLLOW THE EXIT ROAD (PERIMETER RD) TO THE STOP SIGN
AT THE STOP SIGN, TURN RIGHT ONTO BROWN AVE/ROUTE 3A NORTH
PROCEED 2 MILES AND MOVE INTO THE LEFT LANE FOR LEFT TURN AFTER THE
   ROUTE 293/101 OVERPASS
TURN LEFT ONTO ROUTE 293/101 (BEDFORD DIRECTION)
AFTER ONE HALF MILE, TAKE THE EXIT TO NASHUA/BOSTON ONTO THE EVERETT
   TURNPIKE SOUTH
FOLLOW ROUTE 3 SOUTH THROUGH THE BEDFORD TOLL PLAZA TO EXIT 1, NASHUA, NH
AT BOTTOM RAMP TAKE RIGHT ONTO SPIT BROOK ROAD
TAKE FIRST RIGHT AT LIGHTS ONTO TARA BOULEVARD
ZKO SITES (NUMBERED) ARE LOCATED ON TARA BOULEVARD


HOTELS IN THE AREA  (Please refer to VTX travel for housing guidelines)
------------------

SHERATON TARA
TARA BOULEVARD (EXIT 1)
NASHUA, NH               (603) 888-9970

RED ROOF INN
77 SPIT BROOK ROAD
NASHUA, NH (EXIT 1)      (603) 888-1893

HOLIDAY INN
NORTHEASTERN BOULEVARD
NASHUA, NH (EXIT 5E)     (603) 888-1551

HOWARD JOHNSONS
EVERETT TURNPIKE
NASHUA, NH (EXIT 5E)     (603) 889-0173

CLARION SOMERSET HOTEL
ROUTE 101A
NASHUA, NH (EXIT 7W)	 (603) 886-1200
    

The condition attached to attending the TTT (see .0) was to undertake 
the training of employees and customers in OpenVMS V6.1.  

Notwithstanding the excellent documentation provided at this year's event,
there is no way that MCS/DC/LS specialists can take a whole 5 days away from
the front line.  So, we in the UK (and I'm sure this is true in most other
countries) have had to select the main topics to present to these specialists
in seminars of just one or two days and give them pointers to further
information.  We also think that a main function of these seminars is to pull
together relevant information from various sources (TTT Documentation, TTT
Handouts, New Features Manual, Release Notes, etc.) to save the specialists
time (which they can't spare) in learning the major changes in V6.1.

Here's where we are now ....
                                                         
A colleague and I have just about finished preparing a two-day seminar for
OpenVMS specialists (CSC).  We delivered the first one last week and are making
a few adjustments before the 2nd delivery on Wed/Thur this week.  A further
three deliveries after this week are currently scheduled.  By Monday 16th May,
I shall have finished a customer one-day version (I know this because I am
scheduled to teach it on Monday 16th May!).  By the end of May, I shall have
finished a one-day version of the two-day seminar for other employees
(MCS/DC/LS).

We have produced these seminars using Microsoft PowerPoint and a Learning
Services slide master (template).

I realise that different countries probably place emphasis on different topics,
and what we've selected may not suit every one, but the materials will be
available (in .PPT and .PS form) to anyone who wants them.

Rather than post the file locations here, please request them by sending
me mail, so we can keep a log of interested parties.


I want to place on record my appreciation of the prompt responses to the
questions I have mailed to various TTT presenters.  These have enabled me to
add details to, or dispel any confusion I had about, a number of topics.


Geoff