OpenVMS

Course Description

In this two-day hands-on course students get an introduction to OpenVMS, learn Digital command language (DCL),and write command procedures.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Sucessfully log in and out of any OpenVMS system
• Use the HELP facility
• Interact with OpenVMS via the command line interface
• Easily navigate across the OpenVMS file system
• Create and edit files
• Customize their user environment
• Communicate with other users using MAIL and PHONE
• Protect files and directories from unauthorized access
• Find files by date, name, owner, type or other criteria
• Process data with filters, pipes and redirection
• Write batch and interactive command procedures to automate tasks

Course Benefits

Students will be able to interact with, and work on, a OpenVMS system.

Who Should Attend

This course is valuable for anyone who is new to OpenVMS, be it users, programmers, supervisors, systems engineers, or database analysts.

Prerequisite

To ensure success, we recommend students taking this course have a basic knowledge of computer use and terms, and keyboard skills.

Method Of Instruction

Lecture, numerous interactive demonstrations, questions and answers, three quizzes, and one comprehensive capstone exercise.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Multiuser Concepts

• Concurrent Access
• Processes, Jobs, and Threads
• Types of Processes
• Queues: Print, Batch, and Server

Chapter 2: User Accounts

• Disk Quotas
• Privileges
• Passwords
• User Identication Codes (UIC)

Chapter 3: Loggin In and Out

• Login Sequence
• Login Failure
• The Command Line Interface
• Terminal Control Characters
• Logging Out

Chapter 4: Digital Command Language

• Command Language Syntax
• Using HELP
• DCL Prompts
• Entering Commands
• Qualifyers
• Informational, Warning, and Error Messages
• Severity Levels
• Wildcards
• DCL Symbols
• Creating a Symbol
• Obtaining the Value of a Symbol
• Deleting a Symbol
• Using Symbols
• How Symbols Are Evaluated by DCL
• Lexical Functions
• Comparison Operations
• Specifying Dates and Times

Chapter 5: The User Environment

• Files
• Confirm and Log Qualifiers
• Create, Type, Append, Copy, Rename, Delete, Purge, Sort, and Merge Files
• Setting File Version Limits
• The RUN Command
• The LOGIN.COM File
• Using the Editor
• Predefined Logical Names
• Foreign Commands
• DCL Paths
• Working with Queues
• Printing Files
• Batch Jobs
• Modifying and Deleting Queue Entries

Chapter 6: Directories

• Home Directory
• Default Directory
• SHOW DEFAULT Command
• SET DEFAULT Command
• Navigating Across the Directory Structure
• Creating and Deleting Subdirectories

Chapter 7: File Protection

• File Protection Bits
• Access Control Lists
• Privileges That Override File Protections
• Changing File Protection

Chapter 8: Processes

• Broadcast Mesages
• SPAWN
• PIPE
• Altering Process Priority
• PHONE
• MAIL

Chapter 9: Command Procedures

• Creating a Command Procedure
• Entering Commands
• Documenting Command Procedures
• Making Command Procedures Interactive
• Reading and Writing Files From a Procedure
• Passing Data
• GOTO
• CALL
• IF
• ON
• Error Handling