Elara OpenVMS Base Operating Environment

Overview

Range/Series Overview

IMPORTANT: This Range/Series overview section describes the range of which this product belongs. Features of different versions might be mentioned and may not apply to the specific product on this page. Please view Specs for specification of product.OpenVMS is a general-purpose, multiuser operating system that runs in both production and development environments. VSI OpenVMS version 8.4-1H1 adds support for HPE Integrity i4 server models based on the Intel Itanium 9500 series processors.OpenVMS software supports industry standards, facilitating application portability and interoperability. OpenVMS provides symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for multiprocessing systems.The OpenVMS operating system can be tuned to perform well in a wide variety of environments. This includes combinations of compute-intensive, I/O intensive, client/server, real-time, and other environments.The OpenVMS operating system has well-integrated networking, distributed computing, client/server, multiprocessing, and windowing capabilities. It contains extensive features that promote ease-of-use, improve the productivity of programmers, and facilitate system management.

Features Summary

• Text processingThe Extensible Versatile Editor (EVE) is the default editor for OpenVMS. EVE allows users to insert, change, and delete text quickly. EVE is a full-screen editor that allows users to scroll through text on a terminal screen. EVE provides an EDT-style keypad, allowing EDT users to move easily to EVE.
• Mail utilityThe Mail utility allows users to send messages to any other user on the system. Multinode operation is available if a DECnet or TCP/IP product is installed and licensed on each participating node on the network.
• Command level programmingCommand-level programming allows users to create special files, called command procedures that contain a series of DCL commands. When users execute a command procedure, the system processes the commands in the command procedure consecutively.
• User environment tailoringUsers can customize the computing environment with login command procedures, shorthand commands, binding of commands to function keys, and command recall and editing.