Course Description:

This course teaches techniques for creating DCL command files for automating operating system procedures on a OpenVMS system. The course length is five days and incorporates our Lab+Lecture format.

Target Audience:

This course should be attended by advanced users of VMS, application programmers, system programmers, and system managers.

Course Topics:

This course introduces and comprehensively treats the following:

• DCL commands and command procedures
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• Syntax of DCL command procedures
• Design and implementation of DCL command procedures
• Parameters for command procedures
• Batch processing
• Use of local and global symbols
• Locality of reference
• Modularity of command procedures
• Use of all VMS lexical functions
• Use of ANSI escape sequences
• Error handling
• Saving and restoring session context
• Looping
• Recursion
• Processing lists of files
• Running applications programs (such as the EDT or EVE text editors) from a command procedure

Prerequisites:

Attendees must have taken OpenVMS Utilities & Commands, or equivalent training, or have equivalent professional experience before attending this course.

No prior programming experience is assumed; however, knowledge of some programming language (BASIC, Pascal, PL/1, FORTRAN, etc.) and programming language concepts is helpful.