SUMMARY
SUMMARY
o Interactive -- enter HELP at the system prompt. Then enter
COMMANDNAME[,[KEYWORD]]. Exit by entering E or EXIT.
o Direct Access -- enter HELP COMMANDNAME[,[KEYWORD]] at the system
prompt. Help exits after displaying (and scrolling) the portion
that you specified.
o This SUMMARY contains six topics:
NEW external features that are relatively new since the
previous release of MPE/iX.
ONLINEINFO references to online sources of current information
on the HP e3000.
NM commands that execute in Native Mode, and thus
follow a more flexible syntax.
CM commands that are parsed in Compatibility Mode, and
thus are more restrictive in their syntax.
UNSUPPORTED MPE V commands that NOT available in MPE/iX.
SYNTAX discusses syntax supported by the NM commands.
SUMMARY OF HELP OPERATION
Interactive
:HELP -----> START OF THE HELP FACILITY | Help Facility
>XYZ -----> START OF THE COMMAND "XYZ" | remains interactive
>EXAMPLE --> EXAMPLE OF "XYZ" | until you exit by
>ABC ------> START OF THE COMMAND "ABC" | explicit command
>PARMS ----> PARAMETERS OF "ABC" |
>EXIT -----> leaves the help facility | PARMS, OPERATION,
: | EXAMPLE
Direct Access
:HELP XYZ --> START OF COMMAND "XYZ" | Quick in,
: --> scrolls and leaves the help facility | quick out
:HELP XYZ PARMS ----> START OF PARAMETERS OF "XYZ"
: --> scrolls and leaves the help facility
New Features
The following features are relatively new additions to MPE/iX:
:ABORTPROC new command to abort one or more processes.
:INPUT added the ability to receive replies from the console.
:NEWCI new commmand to create an alternate CI, thus reducing
system usage of processes.
:SHUTDOWN new CI level command to shutdown, and optionally restart
the system.
HPMAXPIN new variable - maximum number of concurrent processes.
KSAM64 new option to support very large KSAM files.
input() same INPUT command features added to the input function.
jinfo() new function that returns information on jobs and
sessions.
jobcnt() new function that returns the number of jobs/sessions
matching a logon ID.
pinfo() new function that returns information on processes.
store-to- STORE can write backed up files to disk in FOS.
disk
Online Resources
There are many excellent online resources containing current
information on the HP e3000.
o http://jazz.external.hp.com -
Commercial System Division's (CSY) technical Web site featuring
Apache on MPE/iX.
o http://jazz.external.hp.com/papers/hp3000-info.html -
Document describing many additional online resources.
o http://www.hp.com/go/e3000 -
CSY's official marketing Web site.
o http://www.docs.hp.com/mpeix/ -
HP e3000 manuals online.
o http://www.3kworld.com/ -
3K World's HP e3000 online community.
o http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html
Archives of the popular HP3000-L internet news list.
o http://www.3k.com/faq/hpfaqi.html
Online FAQ for the HP e3000.
o http://www.hp3000links.com
Many HP e3000 links.
Native Mode Commands
These commands operate in Native Mode in the MPE/iX operating system.
Abort Altfile Altjob Altproc
Altwg Appccontrol Breakjob Bye
Calc Chdir Chgroup Comment
Continue Copy Data Debug
Deletevar Dhcfcontrol Diskuse Dismount
Do Dstat Echo Else
Elseif Endif Endwhile Eod
Eoj Errclear Errdump Escape
Exit Formsalign Headon Headoff
Hello Help If Input
Job Jobfence Jobpri Jobsecurity
Ldismount Limit Link Linkcontrol
Listfile Listjobq Listspf Listredo
Lmount Mount Newci Newdir
Newjobq Newlink Newwg Openq
Option Outfence Password Pause
Print Purge Purgedir Purgejobq
Purgelink Purgewg Recall Redo
Reply Resetdump Resume Resumejob
Resumelog Return Set Setcatalog
Setcounter Setdump Setclock Setvar
Showcatalog Showclock Showlog Showme
Showproc Showq Showtime Showvar
Showwg Shutdown Shutq Snacontrol
Spooler Spoolf Spucontrol Switchback
Switchlog Switchover Sysgen Tellop
Tune Vmount Vsclose Vsopen
Vsrelease Vsreleasesys Vsreserve Vsreservesys
Vsuser While Xeq
Note: the EXIT CI command is also used to exit the HELP facility.
EXIT inside of HELP terminates the HELP facility and does not
describe the CI EXIT command. To get information on the CI
EXIT command, enter "help exit" from the CI prompt.
Compatibility Mode Commands
These commands are parsed in Compatibility Mode. Therefore, their
syntax is more restrictive than the syntax for NM commands. Many of the
commands below switch to NM for execution after their parameters have
been parsed. In the Help Facility, they are denoted by the notation (CM).
Abortjob Accept Allocate Allow
Altacct Altgroup Altlog Altsec
Altspoolfile Altuser Associate Basic
Basicgo Basicomp Basicprep Bbasic
Bbasicgo Bbasicomp Bbasicprep Build
Changelog Cobolii Coboliigo Coboliiprep
Console Deallocate Deletespoolfile
Disallow Disassociate Discrps Down
Download Dscopy Dsline Editor
Fcopy File Fortgo Fortprep
Fortran Freerin Ftn Ftngo
Ftnprep Getlog Getrin Imf
Imfcontrol Imfmgr Listacct Listeq
Listf Listftemp Listgroup Listlog
Listuser Listvs Log Netcontrol
Newacct Newgroup Newuser Nrje
Nrjecontrol Nscontrol Pascal Pascalgo
Pascalprep Prep Preprun Purgeacct
Purgegroup Purgeuser Refuse Release
Rellog Remote Rename Report
Reset Resetacct Restore Resumenmlog
Resumespool Rje Rpg Rpggo
Rpgprep Run Save Secure
Segmenter Setjcw Setmsg Showallocate
Showallow Showdev Showin Showjcw
Showjob Showlogstatus Shownmlog Showout
Speed Spl Splgo Splprep
Startsess Startspool Stopspool Store
Stream Streams Suspendspool Switchnmlog
Tell Up Vstore Warn
Welcome
HP predefined variables are listed under the entry VARIABLES.
Unsupported commands
These commands are not supported in MPE/iX. Some of the commands below
are concerned with optimizing the performance of the system. These
optimizing functions now reside in the background of the MPE/iX system.
()command logon Altvset Apl
Autoallocate Cachecontrol Cline Cobol
Cobolgo Cobolprep Creset Dscontrol
Foreign Fullbackup Give Miodisable
Mioenable Moff Mon Mpline
Mrje Mrjecontrol Newvset Partbackup
Ptape Purgevset Quantum Showcache
Showcom Startcache Stopcache Sysdump
Take Vinit
SYNTAX RULE
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::::::::::::::::: The old MPE-V/E syntax (shown in ::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::: the syntax diagrams) always works ::::::::::::::::::
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The MPE-V/E syntax conventions are maintained throughout the
Help Facility for consistency. You may use the MPE-V/E
syntax convention for all CI commands. For the new commands
and the old commands that are parsed in NM, an easier to use
and more flexible syntax is supported.
Suppose that and Native Mode parsed command named CMDNAME
has the following syntax:
:CMDNAME KEYWORD1=value1; KEYWORD2=value2;... KEYWORDn=valueN
Because it is a NM command, you may choose how you
enter the command at the keyboard or in a job stream.
For the NM command CMDNAME, the following forms of
entry are valid and equivalent:
:CMDNAME KEYWORD1=a; KEYWORD2= b... ;KEYWORDn = n
:CMDNAME a, b,... ,n
:CMDNAME a, b; KEYWORD7=g; KEYWORD4 =d ;KEYWORD3= c
The order relationship between parameters is still important: positional
parameters must come before keyword parameters, as they did in MPE-V/E.
This is true for all commands. Because this order relationship is
enforced, the following attempt to enter positional parameters after a
keyword parameter will produce an error:
:CMDNAME a, b;KEYWORD7=g, h
Introducing a keyword variable (delimited with a semi-colon) terminates
positional assignment. The positional "h" produces an error above.
More syntax rules and examples are available by entering HELP SYNTAX