[Info-vax] Command to show process rms file opens?

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Fri Aug 7 22:34:40 EDT 2020


On 8/7/2020 10:10 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-08-07, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 8/7/2020 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> VMS really needs a VMS version of RSTS/E's systat/w supplied as part of
>>> VMS and for it to include the locking information as well (as systat/w
>>> did IIRC).
>>>
>>
>> Simon,
>>
>> I believe that I already have some programs that do some of what you ask.
>>
>> It's been a very long time since RSTS for me.  Like 1978.  What?  42 years?
>>
>> If you'd care to come up with some specs, what info should be
>> selectable, how it should be displayed, I might find the energy to dust
>> off some of my old stuff, come up with a utility you might like, donate
>> it to VSI, or if they didn't want it, make it available similar to DECUS
>> stuff.
>>
>> VMS aleady has some things in the MONITOR utility.
>>
>
> I did a long-lost version of this for a former employer and it required
> an intimate understanding of VMS data structure internals as you needed
> to walk through them to get the required information.

Been there, done that.

> Basically sys/w was the command to list the open files, who had
> them open (and at what block). My version included the current
> locks information for each file which was taken from the RMS locks
> in the DLM (IIRC).
>
> Simon.
>

Go to freeware, 6 or 8 I think, and look for RMS_LOCKS

But that's just locking, not what else is happening is a process.

Original purpose was to search for deadlocks ...

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