[Info-vax] OpenVMS STARTUP Whitepaper

[Craig A. Berry]

On 12/11/20 12:35 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/11/2020 11:12 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2020-12-11 kl. 15:51, skrev Arne Vajhøj:

>>> But will Rdb work properly without the RDMS_MONITOR and RMU processes 
>>> running?
>>
>> No, your application will not do anything with the data without having
>> an "OK" from the monitor. You send an "attach request" (well, the code
>> in the sharable images does) to the monitor and the monitor says "OK".
> 
>>> Will it work properly without the Rdb logicals being defined?
>>
>> No, you need at least some of the logicals setup by the startup file.
> 
> That is what I thought.
> 
> Rdb is not really like SQLite.

Well in general, obviously.  But in the specific matter of not running
as a service, I stand corrected in that it does not run as a service but
requires a monitor service to be running, which is an odd design, but
there it is. So it has prerequisites for start-up, which possibly could
have been overcome in the DEC days when things were more integrated.