We run batch files on our OpenVMS Alpha and Integrity servers. Up until now they have been written in COBOL. As you can imagine there are many reasons why will not be able to maintain that process....

I have an 8-character string representing a hexadecimal number and I need to convert it to an int. This conversion has to preserve the bit pattern for strings "80000000" and higher, i.e., those num...

I built a simple program try to print the command line parameters. The code is below and I built an executable file (TEST.EXE). int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i; printf("%s\n",argv[0]);...

We currently have a large business-critical application written in COBOL, running on OpenVMS (Integrity/Itanium). As the months pass, there is more and more speculation about the lifetime of...

I am really confused by some syntax in the DCL of OpenVMS. For example, these are some of the lines which confused me: $ wo = "write sys$output" Does it create a symbol wo for write sys$...

I need to get the image dimensions of a JPEG in C++. I'm looking for either a fairly simple way to do it or a smallish library that provides that functionality. I'm working in C++ on OpenVMS, so an...

I'm using SAS 9.2 on OpenVMS to connect to an external data source over a socket specifed with a filename statement: filename extsrc SOCKET "extserver:port" recfm=v; data foo; infile extsrc; inpu...