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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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Curl usage on OpenVMS

We use curl on our openvms system to successfully download many files - no problems. We have a particularly big ZIP file that I wanted to try and multi-part download in parallel using the --range flag of curl to get different parts of the file that…
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ms Using fixed ports with RPC on Linux

I am currently migrating the server part of a Client/Server application from OpenVMS to Linux (RHEL). the communication is done via RPC. I now saw that the portmapper 'spreads' the assigned ports over the whole range instead of assigning one after…
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What is inotify for OpenVMS?

What is inotify: inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem that acts to extend filesystems to notice changes to the filesystem, and report those changes to applications. for OpenVMS?
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Handling DCL ON ERROR actions after first error?

The OpenVMS DCL command HELP ON EXAMPLE displays: ON Examples 1.$ ON SEVERE_ERROR THEN CONTINUE A command procedure that contains this statement continues to execute normally when a warning or error occurs during execution. When…
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Unable to link the SSL libraries in OpenVMS by using ProC

I trying to develop simple client/server programming by using TCP/IP sockets with SSL in the OpenVMS. We are accessing the Proc APIs in our code. So, I used the lnproc option to link my programs with SSL libraries. It throws the following error when…
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How to Split an ANSI string with unknown characters returned from OpenVMS in C#

I have a method that I've written in C# that connects to OpenVMS, runs a command and then returns the output. One of the DCL procedures it runs returns a "form" in the form of a string which has all sorts of ANSI encoding in it. What I wish to do is…
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Automating Data Entry into VMS with E-Term32

I've been asked to figure out a way to do this, so please fill me in on whether this is even possible or if it shouldn't be done. The goal is to automate data entry into VMS (we use E-Term32 for connecting to VMS). Things that have been discussed…
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How to store a command output in OpenVMS

Im having an issue writing a DCL in OpenVMS in that I need the DCL to call a command and capture its output (but not output the output to the screen) Later on in the DCL I then need to print that output I stored. Heres an example: ICE SET FASTER…
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OpenVMS ODS-5 freeblocks

Our OpenVMS 8.3 ODS-5 machines, disks mounted as shadow set members sometimes lose freeblocks suddenly with no obvious cause. Adding up the FREEBLOCKS and the total size of all files on the disk gives a much lower total than the actual total…
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Problems with DCL Symbols

I have been using VMS/OpenVMS for over 30 years now. I found something interesting yesterday. I always have symbols PU*RGE :== PURGE/CONF, and DE*LETE :== DELETE/CONF in my setups. This is to avoid accidental deletions and purges. However, one…
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How do I export OpenVMS CMS history and import it to GIT

We are getting rid of our DEC Alpha Workstations and have a lot of historical software under OpenVMS Code Management System (CMS) that we would like to import to GIT running on Linux. Currently we have to do this by hand and it will take a long time…
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HP Basic anomaly in Print Using

As I understand it, the following statement: print using "<0>#,##", 1234 outputs: 1,234 which makes sense; leading zeros (of which there are none) and five characters available for the five characters we want to output. Another statement which I…
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How to edit telnet form programmatically?

I'm not even sure whether I've framed this question correctly. Let me explain my situation. I have an Application hosted in a OpenVMS environment which is being accessed via Telnet. I'm in need to programmatically accomplish certain tasks. So far I…
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VAX Fortran Keyed indexed file - sequential access

Okay, I know I'm going back a few years, but maybe I'll run across some graybeards (like mine) :). I have an indexed data file with a key field. It's opened like so in the application: OPEN (FILE='DATA.MAS',STATUS='OLD', 1 …
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OpenVMS - Add STRING to Filename via DCL

I have a number of files created by a program on our selling system that are produced in a format like the following: CRY_SKI_14_EDI.LIS CRY_SUM_14_EDI.LIS THO_SKI_14_EDI.LIS THO_LAK_14_EDI.LIS CRY_SKI_IE_14_EDI.LIS These files differ in numbers…
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