OpenVMS commands provided by layered products

Actually these commands are documented with the layered product they belong to. They are defined also in the DCL table of a system without the layered product, so they look like "undocumented" commands in a way.

Commands which are part of Security enhanced VMS

Actually these might be documented in the SE VMS manuals (which I don't have around ;-). Nevertheless the commands are defined also on a normal installation, but will produces errors like this:

$show audit/integrity
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SEVMS$SETSHOWAUDIT
-CLI-E-IMAGEFNF, image file not found $1$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]SEVMS$SETSHOWAUDIT.EXE;

Currently I only have a list of commands, but no description yet. If you can fill in more details please drop me a note.

• SET|SHOW AUDIT/INTEGRITY
• SET|SHOW AUDIT/SECRECY
• SET|SHOW CLASSIFICATION
• SET DEVICE/CLASSIFICATION
• SET DIRECTORY/CLASSIFICATION
• SET FILE/CLASSIFICATION
• SET|SHOW TEMPLATE

Commands that refer to layered products

ACCOUNTING/CSI

???

BTS related

• DEFINE/KEY/[NO]BTS
• DELETE/KEY/[NO]BTS
• SET HOST/[NO]BTS
• SHOW KEY/[NO]BTS

??? Whatever BTS is

CONVERT/SPREADSHEET

Related to XWAY? Most probably converts different spreadsheet formats into each other.

DEBUG/REMOTE

???

DHCF related

• DEFINE/KEY/[NO]DHCF
• DELETE/KEY/[NO]DHCF
• SHOW KEY/[NO]DHCF

??? Whatever DHCF is

DSM

Digital Standard M(umps)

EDIT/DPE

???

EDIT/XTPU

This invokes the DEC eXtended Text Processing Utility, which can be used to edit files with japanese characters. Further information can be found at:

• digital.compaq.co.jp (Attention: Browser must be able to handle japanese characters)
• OpenVMS help for XTPU

FTAM/DECnet OSI related

• APPEND/APPLICATION_PROTOCOL=FTAM
• COPY/APPLICATION_PROTOCOL=FTAM
• DELETE/APPLICATION_PROTOCOL=FTAM
• DIRECTORY/APPLICATION_PROTOCOL=FTAM
• RENAME/APPLICATION_PROTOCOL=FTAM

FTAM seems to be kind of an FTP over DECnet OSI

LICENSE GENERATE

Most probably does exactly the thing one would expect ;-)

MAIL/DECMAIL

???

RSX emulation related

• EDIT/SLP
  On RSX existed a utility named SLIP (the "I" not being a typo), which created a difference listing of two files in the form of a line editor file. This file could be used with EDIT/SLP to insert/delete the lines to convert between the two input files.
  Example: A.TXT consisting of BASE.TXT with modifications 1, 2, and 3. B.TXT consisting of BASE.TXT with modifications 1, 4, and 5. The goal is to create file C.TXT consisting of BASE.TXT with modifications 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. The idea is to extract changes 4 and 5 from file B.TXT and apply them to A.TXT. To achieve this one would run SLIP against A.TXT and B.TXT, edit the resulting line editor file to remove the changes 2 and 3 and finally apply the changes using EDIT/SLP.
• LIBRARY/RSX11
• MACRO/RSX11
• SORT/RSX11

These commands are part of the RSX on OpenVMS emulation.

P.S.I. related

• ACCOUNTING/PSI
• ACCOUNTING/X25
• SET HOST/X29
• SET TERMINAL/X29
• SHOW TERMINAL/X29

Wide area network related commands

SNA related

• SET HOST/SNA
• SUBMIT/SNA

SNA (IBM mainframe network) related commands

BACKUP/ENCRYPT

You get the encryption capability with the VAX Encrytion product, which is only available for US customers.

Comments to: Martin P.J. Zinser
Last modified: 20020628