[Info-vax] how to write openvms commands in .sh file through openvms

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kgo56t$bok$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2013-02-28, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 
>>> One answer could be to transfer a command procedure to the target system
>>> and have the command procedure write any output to a file which can then
>>> be transferred back to the initiating machine. The command procedure
>>> could then be triggered from the initiating system using ssh.
>>> 
>>
>> You mean .... like .... BATCH ??
> 
> No.
> 
> Where is the VMS API which would allow you to submit a batch job directly
> from a Unix box without having to log into the VMS box interactively first ?

Now there's a good question.  was there ever a standard Remote Batch
Protocol or did everyone just roll their own?  Did VMS ever support
Remote batch from any other susyems (IBM? Univac? even PDP-11!!)

> 
> The closest you are going to get to running commands remotely on a standard
> VMS system is to use the ability of ssh (assuming both initiating and target
> TCP/IP stacks support it) to run a command directly without needing a full
> interactive session.
 
I see this suggested often for various systems, but it really isn't
"batch" it's just a normal job run in the background without any user
interaction.  I am assuming that VMS did at one time (and maybe still
does) support real BATCH QUEUES.  Yes?

bill
 

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