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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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send email from openVMS

I am not familiar with OpenVMS but I would like to understand how to write a script that will send an email whenever I call it. My understanding is that the body of the email is put in a temp file before it is converted to text and sent. How do I…
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Openvms mime content/encoding for an .xlsx file

We have created a utily that - using MIME - allows us to send emails using the VMS MAIL utility that include various types of file as an attachment. So far it works for PDF, text xls, doc and zip files. However we are unable to get it to work for…
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Is there an OpenVMS EDT keypad plugin for geany?

Is there a OpenVMS EDT keypad (layout) plugin for geany?
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How to manipulate how getline sees lines

I have some code on openVMS where getline doesn't split the lines the same way as VMS editors for example. Is there some way to manipulate how getline return lines? It worked well with files ftped over, put it doesnt work with some other files - i…
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Is there an Oracle C Client for OpenVMS on Integrity

I have a legacy system, which I'd like to migrate to a more modern architecture. As a start I'd like to migrate the database layer, but I can't seem to find a C Client for OpenVMS. On the Oracle Page this architecture isn't listed, but I found forum…
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dcl executing program using foreign command

How would you go about doing this? I have a file which contains roughly 40 lines, each line are variables for an .exe file. I've setup a foreign command $ CC := "$something$something:file.exe" I then try to loop through the file line by…
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waiting on background subprocesses in DCL on VMS

I am looking for a way to launch several background processes to run in parallel with DCL. I would want to wait for them all to complete and know whether they all succeeded or at least one failed. This would be like using & and wait in bash. I read…
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Generate a random array in C

I'm developing in C using OpenVMS, I've done a code that put in a 1001 (0-1000) elements array, 1000 (0-999) random numbers between 0 and 50. Here is the code: #include #include #include main(){ int vet[1000],…
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How to migrate from Oracle RDB for OpenVMS to MySQL in Windows?

I have a legacy Alpha server with a RDB database. This db is replicated in a MySQL db with many bad php scripts that drops all the tables and takes everything from the Alpha. This works very slow and is becoming unmaintainable. Is there a better way…
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How to list history commands on VMS ?

How to list history commands on VMS ? On linx, we can use "history". I cannot find corresponding commands on VMS . Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
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Java performance on OpenVMS

I have tried to test Java performance on OpenVMS (Itanium, OS 8.3). I created some sample classes to test performance as below HEZ[AUN]$type Test.java import java.util.Date; public class Test { public static void main(String args[]) { …
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Changing f$mode() in an 'OTHER' session in openvms

I want to loggin in an openvms system using SSH progamatically then issue remote commands on the server. Putty will let me do that because f$mode() is 'BATCH' but with any SSH library I have used, the f$mode is 'OTHER' and that creates errors in my…
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Hard time with scripting in OpenVMS

I am having a very hard time with scripting in OpenVMS I have a certain output in a file called test.txt .For example : [WWEWE@http-lx-as code]$ cat test.txt ** Configuration for file "MULTINET:NETWORK_DEVICES.CONFIGURATION" ** Device …
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I lose the high-value bit when sending characters (Putty SSH to OPENVMS)

I'm connecting to an OpenVMS system, using Putty, through a SSH connection. I can successfully interact with the host system (supposed to be in DEC-MCS encoding), but when I send special characters (any character code in the 128-255 range, really),…
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OpenVMS Record Management Services to Linux Replacement Recommendations

I am currently trying to find recommendations on how to migrate from OpenVMS RMS to Linux. Legacy code makes use of Indexed and Relative files. I currently have some ideas on how to move away from RMS and these include: Unix GDBM, Relational…
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