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The Operating Environments Extensions Documentation Set includes
manuals that support the products that are included in the OEs. See
Section 10.5 for a list of these documents.
9.1.4 Documentation for System Integrated Products
System Integrated Products (SIPs) are included in the OpenVMS software, but you must purchase separate licenses to enable them. Table 9-3 shows the documentation associated with System Integrated Products.
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| System Integrated Product | Related Documentation |
|---|---|
| HP Galaxy Software Architecture on OpenVMS Alpha | The documentation is included in the OpenVMS Full Documentation Set. |
| OpenVMS Clusters | The OpenVMS Cluster documentation is included in the OpenVMS Full Documentation Set. |
| RMS Journaling for OpenVMS | RMS Journaling for OpenVMS manual is provided in HTML format on the OpenVMS Documentation Web site: http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/ |
| Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS | The documentation is included in the OpenVMS Full Documentation Set. |
OpenVMS continuously updates, revises, and enhances the OpenVMS operating system documentation. From time to time, manuals are archived. You can access the archived manuals online from the HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Documentation CD or from the following Web site:
For a list of the archived OpenVMS manuals, see Section 10.6.
9.2 Authoring Tool for OpenVMS Documentation
OpenVMS Documentation team is continuing to introduce books that have been authored and published using a tool based on the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). SGML is an industry standard and will provide many benefits to both the customer and OpenVMS documentation.
Readers will notice a difference in appearance between books produced from SGML and others in the documentation set. This is true for HTML, PDF, and printed formats and is a natural result of the new authoring environment.
The following Version 8.3 books have been produced with this new tool:
Online documentation for the OpenVMS operating system and many
associated products is provided on one CD for both OpenVMS systems and
Windows platforms. This CD is an ISO 9660 Level 2 CD that is readable
on Windows® and OpenVMS systems.
9.3.1 Online Formats
The documentation CD contains documentation in the following formats:
| Documentation | Available Formats |
|---|---|
| Current OpenVMS manuals | HTML, PDF |
| HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Upgrade and Installation Manual | HTML, PDF |
| HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Release Notes | HTML, PDF |
| HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 New Features and Documentation Overview | HTML, PDF |
| Layered product documents | HTML, PDF |
Bookreader files are no longer available on the documentation CD.
For information about how to access documents on the documentation CD ,
see the HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Upgrade and Installation Manual.
9.4 Online Documentation on the OpenVMS Web Site
You can access OpenVMS manuals in various online formats from the following OpenVMS Web site:
This site contains links to current versions of manuals in the OpenVMS
Full Documentation Set as well as to manuals for selected layered
products.
9.5 Online Help
The OpenVMS operating system provides online help for the commands, utilities, and system routines documented in the Full Documentation set.
You can use the Help Message facility to quickly access online descriptions of system messages. In addition, you can add your own source files, such as messages documentation that you have written to the Help Message database.
The OpenVMS System Messages: Companion Guide for Help Message Users manual explains how to use the Help Message facility. You can also access DCL Help for Help Message by entering:
$ HELP HELP/MESSAGE |
Reference information for OpenVMS utility routines is also included in online help.
This chapter provides summary descriptions for the following OpenVMS documentation:
Guide to HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Media
Provides information about the OpenVMS Version 8.3 operating system and documentation CD. Lists the contents of the OpenVMS Alpha and the OpenVMS for Integrity servers Version 8.3 media kits, includes pointers to installation information, and gives instructions about how to access manuals on the documentation CD.
HP OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual
Describes the License Management Facility (LMF), the OpenVMS license management tool. LMF includes the License Management Utility (LICENSE) and VMSLICENSE.COM, the command procedure you use to register, manage, and track software licenses.
HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Upgrade and Installation Manual
Provides step-by-step instructions for installing the OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS for Integrity servers operating systems on their respective platforms. Includes information about booting, shutdown, backup, and licensing procedures.
HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 New Features and Documentation Overview
Describes new and improved components for the Integrity server and Alpha operating systems for the Version 8.3 release. Includes information about OpenVMS documentation changes for Version 8.3 as well as the printed and online OpenVMS documentation offerings.
HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Release Notes
Describes changes to the software; installation, upgrade, and
compatibility information; new and existing software problems and
restrictions; and software and documentation corrections.
10.2 Manuals in the OpenVMS Base Documentation Set
Describes the DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) and provides an alphabetical listing of detailed reference information and examples for all DCL commands and lexical functions. This manual is in two volumes.
HP OpenVMS Guide to System Security
Describes the security features available in the OpenVMS Alpha and VAX operating systems. Explains the purpose and proper application of each feature in the context of specific security needs.
HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual
Presents reference information about the utilities you can use to perform system management tasks on your system as well as the tools to control and monitor system access and resources. Includes a description of the AUTOGEN command procedure. This manual is in two volumes.
HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials
Provides instructions for setting up and maintaining routine operations such as starting up the system, installing software, and setting up print and batch queues. Also explains routine disk and magnetic tape operations.
HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 2: Tuning, Monitoring, and Complex Systems
Describes how to configure and control the network, how to monitor the system, and how to manage system parameters. Also includes information about OpenVMS Cluster systems, network environments, and DECdtm functionality.
Provides an overview of the operating system and presents basic concepts, task information, and reference information that allow you to perform daily computing tasks. Describes how to work with files and directories. Also includes these additional topics:
HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 New Features and Documentation Overview
Describes new and improved components for the OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS for Integrity servers operating systems for the Version 8.3 release. Includes information about OpenVMS documentation changes for Version 8.3 as well as the printed and online OpenVMS documentation offerings.
HP OpenVMS Version 8.3 Release Notes
Describes changes to the software; installation, upgrade, and
compatibility information; new and existing software problems and
restrictions; and software and documentation corrections.
10.3 Additional Manuals in the OpenVMS Full Documentation Set
HP OpenVMS Availability Manager User's Guide
Describes how to use the HO Availability Manager system management tool, from either an OpenVMS Alpha or a Windows node, to monitor one or more OpenVMS nodes on an extended local area network (LAN) or to target a specific node or process for detailed analysis.
COM, Registry, and Events for HP OpenVMS Developer's Guide
For programmers developing applications that move easily between the OpenVMS and Windows NT environments. Read this manual if you are encapsulating existing OpenVMS applications or data, or creating new COM applications for OpenVMS systems. It also provides information for those who want to use the OpenVMS Registry to store information about their OpenVMS systems alone, or who want to use the OpenVMS Registry as a shared repository for both OpenVMS and Windows NT registry information. This manual was formerly available online as the OpenVMS Connectivity Developer Guide.
HP C Run-Time Library Reference Manual for OpenVMS Systems
Provides reference information on the functions and macros found in the HP C RTL that perform I/O operations, character and string manipulation, mathematical operations, error detection, subprocess creation, system access, and screen management. Includes portability concerns between operating systems, and describes the HP C for OpenVMS socket routines used for writing Internet application programs for the TCP/IP protocol.
Compaq C Run-Time Library Utilities Reference Manual
Provides detailed usage and reference information about the Run-Time Library utilities for managing localization and time zone data in international software applications.
Compaq Portable Mathematics Library
Documents the mathematics routines in the Compaq Portable Mathematics Library (DPML), supplied only with OpenVMS Alpha systems. VAX programmers should refer to the OpenVMS VAX RTL Mathematics (MTH$) Manual.
Provides information for installing and using the DECamds software. DECamds is a system management tool that lets you monitor, diagnose, and track events in OpenVMS system and OpenVMS Cluster environments.
DEC Text Processing Utility Reference Manual
Describes the DEC Text Processing Utility (DECTPU) and provides reference information about the EDT Keypad Emulator interfaces to DECTPU.
Extensible Versatile Editor Reference Manual
Contains command reference information about the EVE text editor. Also provides a cross-reference between EDT and EVE commands.
Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations
This manual provides information to help you choose systems, interconnects, storage devices, and software. It can help you configure these components to achieve high availability, scalability, performance, and ease of system management. Detailed directions using SCSI and Fibre Channel in an OpenVMS Cluster system are also included in this manual.
Guide to Creating OpenVMS Modular Procedures
Describes how to perform a complex programming task by dividing it into modules and coding each module as a separate procedure.
Guide to OpenVMS File Applications
Contains guidelines for designing, creating, and maintaining efficient data files by using Record Management Services (RMS). This manual is intended for application programmers and designers responsible for programs that use RMS files, especially if performance is an important consideration.
Guide to the POSIX Threads Library
Describes the POSIX Threads Library (formerly named DECthreads) package, HP's multithreading run-time libraries. Use the routines in this package to create and control multiple threads of execution within the address space provided by a single process. Offering both usage tips and reference synopses, this document describes three interfaces: routines that conform to the IEEE POSIX 1003.1c standard (called pthread), routines that provide thread-related services in nonthreaded applications (called thread-independent services or tis), and a set of HP proprietary routines (called cma) that provide a stable, upwardly compatible interface.
Guide to the DEC Text Processing Utility
Provides an introduction to developing DECTPU programs.
HP Open Source Security for OpenVMS, Volume 1: Common Data Security Architecture
For application developers who want to use the Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) to add security to their programs. Describes CDSA, gives information about installation and initialization, and provides example programs. Contains the CDSA application programming interface modules.
HP Open Source Security for OpenVMS, Volume 2: HP SSL for OpenVMS
For application developers who want to protect communication links to OpenVMS applications with HP Secure Sockets Layer (HP SSL) for OpenVMS. Contains installation instructions, release notes, and provides example programs. Includes programming information and a reference section for the OpenSSL application programming interface modules.
HP Open Source Security for OpenVMS, Volume 3: Kerberos
For application programmers who want to implement the Kerberos protocol that uses string cryptography, so that a client can proves identity to a server (and a server can provide its identity to a client) across an insecure network connection.
HP OpenVMS Alpha Partitioning and Galaxy Guide
Provides complete details about how to use all of the OpenVMS Galaxy features and capabilities available in OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3--2. Includes procedures for creating, managing, and using OpenVMS Galaxy computing environments on AlphaServer 8400, 8200, and 4100 systems.
HP OpenVMS Guide to Upgrading Privileged-Code Applications
Explains the OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.0 changes that might impact Alpha privileged-code applications and device drivers as a result of the OpenVMS Alpha 64-bit virtual addressing and kernel threads support provided in OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.0.
Privileged-code applications from versions prior to OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.0 might require the source-code changes described in this guide.
HP OpenVMS System Analysis Tools Manual
Describes the following system analysis tools in detail, while also providing a summary of the dump off system disk (DOSD) capability and the DELTA/XDELTA debugger:
Intended primarily for the system programmer who must investigate the causes of system failures and debug kernel mode code, such as a device driver.
Documents the calling standard for the OpenVMS I64, Alpha, and VAX operating systems.
Describes procedures and guidelines for configuring and managing OpenVMS Cluster systems. Also describes how to provide high availability, building-block growth, and unified system management across clustered systems.
HP OpenVMS Command Definition, Librarian, and Message Utilities Manual
Contains descriptive and reference information about the following utilities:
Explains the features of the OpenVMS Debugger for programmers.
HP OpenVMS Delta/XDelta Debugger Manual
Describes the Delta/XDelta utility used to debug programs that run in privileged processor mode or at an elevated interrupt priority level.
HP OpenVMS I/O User's Reference Manual
Contains the information that system programmers need to program I/O operations using the device drivers that are supplied with the operating system.
HP OpenVMS Linker Utility Manual
Describes how to use the Linker utility to create images that run on OpenVMS systems. Also explains how to control a link operation with link qualifiers and link options.
HP OpenVMS MACRO Compiler Porting and User's Guide
Describes how to port existing VAX MACRO assembly language code to an OpenVMS Alpha system by using the features of the MACRO-32 compiler. It also describes how to port existing OpenVMS Alpha code to OpenVMS I64 systems. Also documents how to use the compiler's 64-bit addressing support.
HP OpenVMS Management Station Overview and Release Notes
Provides an overview and release notes for OpenVMS Management Station and describes how to get started using the software. OpenVMS Management Station is a powerful, Microsoft Windows based management tool for system managers and others who perform user account and printer management tasks on OpenVMS systems.
OpenVMS Performance Management
Introduces and explains the techniques used to optimize performance on an OpenVMS system.
Porting Applications from HP OpenVMS Alpha to HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers
Provides a framework for application developers who are migrating from HP OpenVMS Alpha to HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers.
HP OpenVMS Programming Concepts Manual
Describes concepts such as process creation, kernel threads and the kernel threads process structure, interprocess communication, process control, data sharing, condition handling, and ASTs. This two-volume manual uses system services, utility routines, and run-time library (RTL) routines to illustrate mechanisms for utilizing OpenVMS features.
OpenVMS Record Management Services Reference Manual
Provides reference and usage information for all programmers who use RMS data files.
OpenVMS Record Management Utilities Reference Manual
Contains descriptive and reference information about the following RMS utilities:
HP OpenVMS RTL General Purpose (OTS$) Manual
Documents the general-purpose routines contained in the OTS$ facility of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library. Indicates which routines are specific to I64, Alpha or VAX, as well as how routines function differently on each system.
HP OpenVMS RTL Library (LIB$) Manual
Documents the general-purpose routines contained in the LIB$ facility of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library. Indicates which routines are specific to I64, Alpha or VAX, as well as how routines function differently on each system.
OpenVMS RTL Screen Management (SMG$) Manual
Documents the screen management routines contained in the SMG$ facility of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library. Indicates which routines are specific to Alpha or VAX, as well as how routines function differently on each system.
OpenVMS RTL String Manipulation (STR$) Manual
Documents the string manipulation routines contained in the STR$ facility of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library. Indicates which routines are specific to Alpha or VAX, as well as how routines function differently on each system.
OpenVMS System Messages: Companion Guide for Help Message Users
Describes features of the Help Message facility, a tool that you can use to display message descriptions. Describes the HELP/MESSAGE command and qualifiers and also includes detailed information about customizing the Help Message database. Also provides descriptions of messages that can occur when the system and Help Message are not fully operable.
HP OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual
Presents the set of routines that the operating system uses to control resources, allow process communication, control I/O, and perform other such operating system functions. This manual is in two volumes.
HP OpenVMS Utility Routines Manual
Describes the routines that allow a program to use the callable interface of selected OpenVMS utilities.
OpenVMS VAX RTL Mathematics (MTH$) Manual
Documents the mathematics routines contained in the MTH$ facility of the OpenVMS Run-Time Library, which is relevant only to programmers using OpenVMS VAX. (Alpha programmers should refer to Compaq Portable Mathematics Library.)
OpenVMS VAX System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual
Explains how to use the System Dump Analyzer utility to investigate system failures and examine a running OpenVMS VAX system. VAX programmers should refer to this manual; Alpha and I64 programmers should refer to the OpenVMS Alpha System Dump Analyzer Utility Manual.
POLYCENTER Software Installation Utility Developer's Guide
Describes the procedure and provides guidelines for developing software products that will be installed using the POLYCENTER Software Installation utility. Intended for developers who are designing installation procedures for software products layered on the OpenVMS operating system.
VAX MACRO and Instruction Set Reference Manual
Documents both the assembler directives of VAX MACRO and the VAX instruction set.
HP Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS
Describes how to provide high data availability with phase II volume
shadowing.
10.4 RMS Journaling Manual
RMS Journaling for OpenVMS Manual
Describes the three types of RMS Journaling as well as other OpenVMS
components that support RMS Journaling. This manual also describes the
RMS Recovery utility (which is used to recover data saved using
journaling), the transaction processing system services, and system
management tasks required when using RMS Journaling.
10.5 Manuals in the OpenVMS for Integrity Servers OE Extensions Kit
The following list contains manuals relevant to the OpenVMS I64 Operating Environments.
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