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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-02-28, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
> In article <kgo56t$bok$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>> 
>> 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 ?
>
>    Why should VMS put an API on your UNIX system?  And how?
>

That's not how it works. :-) VMS publishes, say, a TCP/IP based open API
which can be used for remote job submission and someone on a Unix box
writes a program to call that API. It's called open standards. :-)

>    Starting a job on a remote system without having to exchange
>    security credentials in a whopping big security hole.
>  

Yes, I am aware of that.

The implicit assumption was that there was some authentication process.

Simon.

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