Module 1 - Introduction to OSS
- History of UNIX
- The POSIX standard
- NonStop servers that use OSS
- Guardian and OSS interface differences
Module 2 - OSS file system basics
- Accessing OSS
- The OSS file system
- Permissions
- File types
- Typical directories
Module 3 - Basic commands and utilities
- Navigational and display commands
- TACL/OSS command equivalents
- Printing from OSS
- Process management
- Lab Exercise: Basic Commands and Utilities
Module 4 - Advanced commands and utilities
- More advanced commands
- Redirection and piping
- Profile files
- Environment variables
- Command line editing
- Miscellaneous commands such as grep and awk
- Lab Exercise: Advanced Commands and Utilities
Module 5 - OSS file editing
- The vi editor
- Copying files between OSS and Guardian environments
- Text file conversion between OSS and Guardian environments
- Lab Exercise: File Editing
Module 6 - Command scripting
- Command files
- Use of TACL commands from OSS
- Use of OSS commands from TACL
- Variable usage
- Aliases
- Control structures
- Functions
- Argument processing
- Tracing
- Lab Exercise: Command Scripting
Module 7 - OSS development
- Tools and utilities such as c89, c99, ecobol, tar, pax, eld, and enoft
- Compiling and linking using make
- Compiling and linking for SQL/MX
- NonStop Development Environment for Eclipse
- Debugging with Inspect
- Debugging with Visual Inspect
- Lab Exercise: Development and Visual Inspect
Module 8 - Porting issues
- General porting considerations
- Porting design issues
- Interprocess communications features
- Pipes and FIFOs
- Performance considerations
- $RECEIVE handling
- Lab Exercises: Porting
Module 9 - OSS subsystem architecture
- Subsystem processes
- Subsystem files
- OSS subsystem startup
- OSS configuration overview
- The gname and pname utilities
- DEFINE usage
- Lab Exercise: Architecture
Module 10 - Application programming interface (API) usage
- Accessing standard POSIX system calls
- Accessing NonStop server specific extensions to the system calls
- Accessing Guardian objects from POSIX system calls
- Differentiating between the different forms of process creation calls
- Accessing Guardian procedures from within an OSS program
- Lab Exercise: API Usage
Module 11 - OSS sockets basics
- What is a socket?
- Client/server support
- Protocols and addressing
- Sockets function library
- Library headers and data structures
- OSS and Guardian sockets differences
- Lab Exercise: OSS Sockets
Onsite Delivery Equipment Requirements
Equipment:
- PCs or workstations with an emulator such as MR-Win6530 or OutsideView
- NonStop server with the NonStop operating system, version G06 or later for NonStop S-series servers, H06.03 or J06.03 for Integrity NonStop servers
Software:
- Safeguard activated
- OSS configured and activated
- Language compilers such as c89 and ecobol
- Utilities such as eld and enoft
Recommended Software:
- Visual Inspect (VI) installed on each student workstation
- Host components for VI
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