[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Dave Froble]

On 11/6/2022 9:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/6/2022 9:00 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 11/6/2022 1:50 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 11/6/2022 12:23 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 11/5/2022 8:42 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> VMS batch queues are pretty good. You setup the queues with
>>>>> priority, task limit, CPU limit, memory limit etc.. Good cluster
>>>>> support. The only thing I don't like is the defaults for
>>>>> the log file - and that is a minor inconvenience.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what you dislike about batch log files ...
>
>>> I dislike the default location. I would very much prefer
>>> them to go to either dir with com file or current dir when
>>> submitting instead of sys$login.
>>>
>>> And I dislike that /PRINT is default.
>>
>> Arne, I've always used the /LOGFILE=<some location>.  I like to know where to
>> look for my logfiles, not have to search for them.  It sure makes automated
>> searches of logfiles much easier.
>
> I use that as well.

Not only do I use a special location for batch log files, such as the logical 
BATLOG, the file usually includes data such as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS in the filespec.

Having a convention of some string included in error messages, which can easily 
be found using a SEARCH command, sure makes finding exceptions easy, and the 
lack of any such is a decent indicator of success.

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