Inside VESOFT covers
tips and techniques you can use with VESOFT’s products,
especially MPEX. As always, I am totally open to getting input from
you users of MPEX, Security/3000 or VEAudit/3000 — it helps me
learn, too. Send me your tricks, and we’ll get a “3000 for
2000” cap out to you as our thanks.
One of the more overlooked
aspects of VEAUDIT is its ability to work with UDC files. There are
two specific commands for working with UDCs: LISTUDC and ALTUDC. The
syntax is a bit different from the normal VESOFT commands (in my
opinion). For those of you who don’t know, you can issue VEAUDIT
and SECURITY/3000 commands directly from MPEX by prefacing them with
either VEAUDIT or SEC respectively.
First, let’s cover
the LISTUDC command. The syntax is:
%VEAUDIT LISTUDC userset
[;FILE=fileset] [;INVERT]
Some examples of how to use it:
%VEAUDIT LISTUDC @.@
%VEAUDIT LISTUDC @.PROD+@.DEV
%VEAUDIT LISTUDC
@.@-@.VESOFT; FILE=@.PUB.VESOFT
This lists the UDC files
which are set for each user in a userset (system, account, and/or
user); if you use the ;FILE=fileset option, it shows you only those
files which match the fileset. If you use the ;INVERT keyword, the
output is inverted, and shows the list of all users who have each
individual UDC file SETCATALOGed. Here is an example of both types of
output when logged on as MANAGER.SYS on my system.
veaudit listudc @.@
@ .@ WARP.PUB.TIMEWARP SYSUDC.PUB.SYS HPPXUDC.PUB.SYS
NETSEND .VESOFT LOGONUDC.PUB.VESOFT
SYSSTART.VESOFT LOGONUDC.SYSSTART.VESOFT
veaudit listudc @.@;invert
HPPXUDC.PUB.SYS @.@
LOGONUDC.PUB.VESOFT NETSEND.VESOFT
LOGONUDC.SYSSTART.VESOFT SYSSTART.VESOFT
SYSUDC.PUB.SYS @.@
WARP.PUB.TIMEWARP @.@
I find the INVERT option to
be a bit easier to read through than the standard display format, but
I find them both to be useful tools.
Next is the ALTUDC
command, and believe me, this can be a HUGE time saver. The syntax
is:
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC userset;
FROM=fromfileset; TO=tofileset
Some examples of usage are:
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC @.@;
FROM=LOGONUDC.PUB.SECURITY;& TO=LOGONUDC.PUB.VESOFT
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC MGR.PROD;
FROM=@UDC1.UDC.PROD; &
TO=@UDC2.UDC.PROD
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC
MANAGER.DEV+MANAGER.TEST; &
FROM=PHUDC.PUB.COGNOS;
TO=PHUDC.CATALOG.ROBELLE
Did you ever want to replace
one UDC file with another, but you weren’t sure which users
(and/or accounts) the old UDC file was currently set for? The
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC command finds all of the users and accounts on your
system that the FROM-fileset is currently :SETCATALOGed for and
:SETCATALOGs them to the TO-fileset! (If any files in the FROM
fileset are :SETCATALOGed at the SYSTEM level, those will be replaced
as well.)
In other words, if the
user MGR.PROD currently has the following UDC files set:
USER UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
MGRUDC1.PUB.PROD
ACCOUNT UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
ACCTUDC1.PUB.PROD
SYSTEM UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
LOGONUDC.PUB.VESOFT
STRMUDCX.PUB.VESOFT
MPEXUDC.PUB.VESOFT
SYSUDC1.PUB.SYS
and you issue the command
%VEAUDIT ALTUDC MGR.PROD;
FROM=@1.@.@; TO=@2.=.=
Then MGR.PROD will then have
these UDC files set:
USER UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
MGRUDC2.PUB.PROD
ACCOUNT UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
ACCTUDC2.PUB.PROD
SYSTEM UDC CATALOG FILE NAMES:
LOGONUDC.PUB.VESOFT
STRMUDCX.PUB.VESOFT
MPEXUDC.PUB.VESOFT
SYSUDC2.PUB.SYS
As you may have noticed, the
TO-fileset can contain @s and =s; you will want to refer to the
documentation on the OBJECTFILE(...) function that is in the Appendix
for details.
Like the MPE :SETCATALOG
command, %VEAUDIT ALTUDC allows users to modify their own UDCs, AM
users to modify any UDCs in their own account, and SM users to modify
any UDC catalog on the system.
Finally, here is
a bit of trivia that I ran across by accident. It seems that if you
rebuild the help facility by issuing the command HELPMAKE, you will
have access to the Posix manual from MPEX as well. I thought this was
pretty cool.
Shawn Gordon, whose S.M.
Gordon & Associates firm supplies HP 3000 utilities, has worked
with 3000s since 1983.