OpenVMS Utility Routines Manual

This "HP OpenVMS Utility Routines Manual," published in July 2006, is a technical guide for programmers. Its primary purpose is to describe a set of utility routines (APIs) that provide a programming interface to various OpenVMS utilities. This allows applications to programmatically invoke and utilize functions typically performed via Digital Command Language (DCL) commands. For certain "facilities" like Data Compression/Expansion (DCX), Print Symbiont Modification (PSM), Symbiont/Job Controller Interface (SMB), and Traceback Facility (TBK), these routines represent the only user interface.

The manual covers 20 different utility routine sets, including:

• Access Control List (ACL) Editor
• Backup API
• Command Language Interface (CLI)
• Common File Qualifiers
• Convert (CONVERT)
• Data Compression/Expansion (DCX)
• DEC Text Processing Utility (DECTPU)
• Digital Distributed Time Service (DECdts) Portable Applications Programming Interface
• EDT Routines
• Encryption (ENCRYPT)
• File Definition Language (FDL)
• Librarian (LBR)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• LOGINOUT (LGI)
• Mail Utility (MAIL)
• National Character Set (NCS)
• Print Symbiont Modification (PSM)
• Symbiont/Job Controller Interface (SMB)
• Sort/Merge (SOR)
• Traceback Facility (TBK)

Each chapter provides an introduction to a specific set of routines, illustrates their use with programming examples, and offers detailed descriptions of each individual routine. The routines adhere to the HP OpenVMS Calling Standard and are documented for OpenVMS I64 Version 8.3 and OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3. This manual supersedes the "HP OpenVMS Utility Routines Manual, OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3."