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For questions that are specific to the OpenVMS (AKA VAX/VMS) operating system. If your question has nothing to do with OpenVMS APIs or OpenVMS-specific behavior then do not use this tag. This tag is appropriate for any software running on OpenVMS.

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Change prompt in OpenVMS

I am looking for some assistance with openVMS. The default prompt under VMS is $ I want to update this to reflect the current working directory that I am located in as I can in Unix/Linux when I change directories. I created a file named login.com…
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LIB$SIGNAL issue with -F- atals on OpenVMS

I'm maintaining an application that's been must run op Alpha OpenVMS (7.3-2) and Itanium OpenVMS (8.4). It's written in C++, compiler version is 6.5-046 on Alpha and 7.4-004 on IA64. The issue I have is with LIB$SIGNAL(). As soon as it signals a…
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OpenVMS - batch to check if running latest version of script

Is it possible to code a batch script to check that there has been no versions added since this one was queued up and if so run the updated script instead. I could do this by sub-scripting it but that would mean 2 scripts for each script i have in…
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Migrating RMS to RDB

We're approaching the migration of legacy OpenVMS RMS files into relational database (both MS SQL 2012 and Oracle 10g are available). I wonder if there are: Tools to retrieve schema of indexed files Tools to parse indexed files Tools to deal with…
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How to write a VMS daemon using python?

There are plenty entries on the internet on how to create a daemon using python in unix but I couldn't find anything mentioning how to do this in OpenVMS. Does anybody know how to create daemons (or VMS equivalent) in OpenVMS using python?
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Building Boost on OpenVMs

I’m hoping to port an application to open vms using HP C++7.3, but at the minute just trying out a few examples to establish if it's a potential way forward but a bit stuck. Being completely new to open vms it's being a lot of fun so far. For…
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Oracle client support for VAX OpenVMS 7.3

Does Oracle support any kind of client and C/C++ pre compiler for VAX OpenVMS 7.3 to connect to a Oracle server? On oracle.com they only have clients for Alpha and Itanium. I am using a simh VAX. And I have a Oracle 11g express database.
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fortran get system environment info in openvms

Is it possible to get system environment information on Fortran 90 (OpenVMS operating system)? I use compiler VSI Fortran V8.3-104957-50Q83. I won't realize the next C-code on Fortran char *bind_addr= getenv("MYSQL_TEST_BINDADDR");
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Does the Oracle Pro*C 10.0 pre-compiler require floating-point host variables to be in IEEE format?

We are migrating our forecasting database from Oracle 10.2 to Oracle 12.1. This means that we have to replace the Oracle ProC 9.2.0.3.0 pre-compiler with ProC 10.2.0.5.0. All of our application programs are built and run under OpenVMS Alpha 8.4. We…
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AWK - error in script with count variable OR error in AWK Implementation / version?

Awk version: GNU Awk 3.1.1 Platform: OpenVMS 8.4-L1 Awk knowledge: limited Script (Awk one liner). NOTE: OpenVMS parameter parsing requires quotes gawk "-F" ";" "BEGIN {x = 0} ; x++ {print $0,$1"";""x}" in.file >…
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Converting / Flattening RMS indexed files from OpenVMS

I was attempting to convert some Indexed files created on the OpenVMS to plain flat sequential files to be used in Windows or Linux. Each indexed files contains x quantity of of POD structures (2594 bytes) I have converted the files using a simple…
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Iterate with files in Openvms DCL

I have this file input.text with say 20 lines. (Although I would like to be able to use any number of lines) So I want to open the said file and use each string as though it was a parameter for another command. This other command would take each…
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How to enable case sensitive in HP openVMS DCL?

My DCL as below (TEST.EXE just print the input ) $ DEFINE DCL$PATH SYS$DISK:[],SYS$LOGIN:,SYS$SYSTEM: $ PIPE TEST.EXE abc | DEFINE/JOB RET_VALUE @SYS$PIPE $ x = f$logical("RET_VALUE") $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT x I want to let this DCL show the result is…
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sys$cli in VAX/VMS

I tried to look everywhere what the function/system call sys$cli does. I am using Vax 7000 machine, which has the openVMS v6.2 operating system, so I am not sure the newer versions of VMS/VAX has it, but even if they do - I couldn't find any source…
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trying to connect to an openVMS server

I am running a Unix based virtual machine and I am trying to write a script that will connect to a specific openVMS server. I don't know why ,but this became more difficult as I discovered that: 1) I don't have the 'expect' command. 2) When I use…
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