Setting Up a CMS Library

This topic contains important setup information that may require you to modify a CMS library or reinstall CMS to use certain features.

Setting up an Example Library

Adding Extended File Specification Support

Adding Long Variant Name Support

Usage Scenarios

The OpenVMS CMS Support Module is compatible with any working CMS library. There are two broad usage scenarios:

Setting up an Example Library

Once you've installed and loaded the CMS Support Module, you are ready to start using it with a new or existing CMS library profile. You may wish to begin with a test library.

If you want to reproduce the examples in this help file, set up a new CMS library as follows:

$ create /dir [.mycmslib]
$ cms create lib [.mycmslib]
_Remark:
%CMS-S-CREATED, CMS Library DISK$:[user.mycmslib] created
%CMS-I-LIBIS, library is DISK$:[user.mycmslib]
%CMS-S-LIBSET, library set

Adding Extended File Specification Support

The CMS Support Module can use long file names and the greater range of legal characters that are enabled with an ODS-5 volume. This creates two additional CMS library setup requirements:

Adding Long Variant Name Support

CMS Profiles the use of long variant names if you create or modify a library with the /LONG_VARIANT_NAMES switch.

If your library does not support long variant names, you are limited to single-character identifiers for variant branches.

Note If you try to use a long name in this case, you will receive an error in the output window.

 

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