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Computer operating system
"OpenVMS Moving Custom Code" (PDF). decus.de. Retrieved December 21, 2020. Paul Lacombe (2005). "HP OpenVMS Strategy and Futures" (PDF). de.openvms.org
OpenVMS
Period when a computer system is available
also available for FreeDOS. The version was developed by M. Aitchison. On OpenVMS systems, the show system command can be used at the DCL command prompt
Uptime
Open-source antivirus software
has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku. As of version 0.97.5, ClamAV builds and
ClamAV
Command in various operating systems
OpenVOS delete_file and delete_dircommands. DEC RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, and OpenVMS also provide the delete command which can be contracted to del. AmigaDOS
Del_(command)
Dialect of the BASIC programming language
VSI BASIC for OpenVMS is the latest name for a dialect of the BASIC programming language created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and now owned
VSI_BASIC_for_OpenVMS
General-purpose programming language
compatibility issues - VSI OpenVMS Wiki". wiki.vmssoftware.com. Retrieved 8 June 2026. "Python and Python Wheels for OpenVMS — VMS Software, Inc". docs
Python_(programming_language)
Type of interface based on outputting to or controlling a text display
pages) as a lightweight terminal multiplexer. VAX/VMS (later known as OpenVMS) had a similar facility to curses known as the Screen Management facility
Text-based_user_interface
computer software, specifically the DCL command-line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used
Directory_(OpenVMS_command)
Computer bus used on VAX computers
QUAD-Host--> 27/89 30mv 10.5mv (rms) VAX7000 VAX10000 DSSI SUPPORT IN OpenVMS: OpenVMS VAX V5.0-2: o Single- and Dual-Host support with 2 EDA640s (MicroVAX
Digital Storage Systems Interconnect
Digital_Storage_Systems_Interconnect
Family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors
OpenVMS on Itanium available outside HP. V8.2 (2005) - First production-grade release of OpenVMS on Itanium. V8.4 (2010) - Final release of OpenVMS supported
Itanium
OS that runs entirely in kernel-mode
within 68K OpenVMS Palm OS (version ≤ 5.0) Modular operating systems such as OS-9 and most modern monolithic-kernel operating systems such as OpenVMS, Linux
Monolithic_kernel
Desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS
Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation
Common_Desktop_Environment
Software for communication between software components
Digital and Microsoft announced Affinity for OpenVMS (also known as NT Affinity) which was intended to allow OpenVMS to serve as the persistence layer for Windows
Distributed Component Object Model
Distributed_Component_Object_Model
Slanting line punctuation mark (/)
(OS/8, RT-11, TOPS-10, et cetera), Windows, MS-DOS, some CP/M programs, OpenVMS, and OS/2 all use the slash to indicate command-line options. For example
Slash_(punctuation)
Method for creating, maintaining, and manipulating computer files
VSAM is the physical access method used in Db2.[citation needed] The OpenVMS operating system uses the Files-11 file system in conjunction with RMS
ISAM
Integer number that is made available to the parent of a terminated process
convention, a nonzero status code indicates abnormal termination." In OpenVMS, success is indicated by odd values and failure by even values. The value
Exit_status
Special user account used for system administration
Novell NetWare, the superuser was called "supervisor", later "admin". In OpenVMS, "SYSTEM" is the superuser account for the OS. On most personal computers
Superuser
American multinational computer corporation
database processing Oracle Rdb, a relational database system running on OpenVMS platforms. Oracle acquired Rdb in 1994 from Digital Equipment Corporation
Oracle_Corporation
Command in various command line shells
that contains information on the use of commands and descriptions of some OpenVMS concepts such as time formats and lexical functions, as well as lists of
Help_(command)
Scripting language created in 1994
(primarily; some components in C++) OS Unix-like, Windows, macOS, IBM i, OpenVMS, IBM Z License Modified BSD License Filename extensions .php,.phar,.phtml
PHP
Early web browser (1993–1997)
original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2012-08-02. "OpenVMS.org – OpenVMS Community Portal (VMS Mosaic V4.2)". OpenVMS.org. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11
NCSA_Mosaic
Device file that discards all data written to it
\Device\Null on Windows NT), NIL: on Amiga operating systems, and NL: on OpenVMS. In Windows Powershell, the equivalent is $null. It provides no data to
Null_device
Computer software bug occurring in 2038
Manual for OpenVMS Systems" (PDF). VSI. November 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021. "OpenVMS and the year
Year_2038_problem
Topics referred to by the same term
hardware-dedicated ciphers VAX Environment Software Translator, a binary translator for OpenVMS Vesting, a legal concept relating to property This disambiguation page
Vest
Open-source web server software
Linux distribution, but current versions also run on Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and a wide variety of Unix-like systems. Past versions also ran on NetWare
Apache_HTTP_Server
Database query and report writer tool
writer tool originally from Digital Equipment Corporation. It runs on the OpenVMS operating system, as well as several PDP-11 operating systems. DATATRIEVE's
DATATRIEVE
Environment in which a piece of software is executed
MINIX GNU Hurd Linux Android ChromeOS QubesOS OSF/1 Tru64 UNIX z/OS VM OpenVMS QNX Classic Mac OS AmigaOS DOS Windows BeOS Haiku HarmonyOS Newton OS Palm
Computing_platform
Commodore 64. Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS DEC BASIC, renamed after DEC was acquired by Compaq. Now named VSI BASIC for OpenVMS. Dartmouth BASIC the original
List_of_BASIC_dialects
Software interface based on commands formatted as lines of text
command-line interpreters are Nushell, DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc
Command-line_interface
Relational database management system
Oracle Rdb is a relational database management system for the OpenVMS operating system. It was originally released by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Oracle_Rdb
Programming language
free Pascal compiler for Amiga systems. VSI Pascal for OpenVMS (formerly HP Pascal for OpenVMS, Compaq Pascal, DEC Pascal, VAX Pascal and originally VAX-11
Pascal_(programming_language)
Distributed file system protocol
although the default networking protocol is NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) OpenVMS OS/2 RISC OS 9P (protocol) Alluxio BeeGFS CacheFS – a caching mechanism
Network_File_System
Free URL data transfer client software
HURD iOS IRIX Linux macOS NetBSD NetWare OpenBSD OpenHarmony (HarmonyOS) OpenVMS OS/2 QNX QNX Neutrino RISC OS RTEMS Solaris Symbian Tru64 Ultrix UnixWare
CURL
Spreadsheet software
All support the X11 window system. OpenVMS – A character cell terminal version of Lotus 1-2-3 was available on OpenVMS. HP MS-DOS palmtop PCs – A joint
Lotus_1-2-3
Statistical software
ago (2025-06-17) Written in C Operating system Windows, IBM mainframe, Unix/Linux, OpenVMS Alpha Type Data analysis, artificial intelligence software License Proprietary
SAS_(software)
Procedural, imperative computer programming language
1109/TCOM.1980.1094695. Grant, Clair (June 2005). "Porting OpenVMS to HP Integrity Servers" (PDF). OpenVMS Technical Journal. 6. In his slides on IBM Operating
PL/I
Directory to hold files for a specific user
Retrieved 2022-02-01. "OpenVMS User's Manual". odl.sysworks.biz. Retrieved 8 December 2023. "Master file directory - VSI OpenVMS Wiki". wiki.vmssoftware
Home_directory
Programming language with English-like syntax
diverse operating systems such as z/OS, z/VSE, VME, Unix, NonStop OS, OpenVMS and Windows. In 1997, the Gartner Group reported that 80% of the world's
COBOL
Line of computers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation
system is Digital's VAX/VMS (Virtual Memory System); it was renamed to OpenVMS in 1991 or early 1992 when it was ported to Alpha, modified to comply with
VAX
Topics referred to by the same term
folder, a file system structure in which to store computer files Directory (OpenVMS command) Directory service, a software application for organizing information
Directory
Filesystem of OpenVMS and RSX-11 operating systems
Files-11 is the file system used in the RSX-11, IAS, and OpenVMS operating systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. It supports record-oriented I/O
Files-11
Technical specification for firmware architecture
2002. OpenVMS has used EFI on IA-64 since its initial evaluation release in December 2003, and for production releases since January 2005. OpenVMS on x86-64
UEFI
Free and open-source display server for X Window System
pixel-doubled mode on high-resolution displays. OpenVMS Current versions of the DECwindows X11 server for OpenVMS are based on X.org Server. The modern X.Org
X.Org_Server
Family of computer operating systems
patterned after Multics. DEC's RSX-11M's "group, user" hierarchy evolved into OpenVMS directories, CP/M's volumes evolved into MS-DOS 2.0+ subdirectories, and
Unix
Cryptographic network protocol
macOS, most distributions of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and OpenVMS. Notably, versions of Windows prior to Windows 10 version 1709 do not include
Secure_Shell
Open-source TLS and cryptography library
assembly, Perl Operating system Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, OpenVMS, and other platforms Type Cryptography library, TLS implementation License
OpenSSL
Shell command for copying files
available in RT-11, OS/8, RSX-11, ISIS-II, iRMX 86, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, OpenVMS, MetaComCo TRIPOS, HDOS, Z80-RIO, OS-9, DOS, FlexOS, 4690 OS, PC-MOS, HP
Copy_(command)
Computer programming method
SQL 11.0 and later for Linux, macOS, OpenVMS and Windows support module SQL for C/C++, and Mimer SQL for OpenVMS also supports module SQL for COBOL, Fortran
Module_SQL
System for optimizing the Web
Server Yes OS X, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, Solaris, Novell NetWare OS/2, TPF, OpenVMS, eComStation Yes Apache 2.0 aiScaler Dynamic Cache Control No Linux No
Web_cache
64-bit RISC instruction set architecture
motherboards. Operating systems that support Alpha included OpenVMS (formerly named OpenVMS AXP), Tru64 UNIX (formerly named DEC OSF/1 AXP and Digital
DEC_Alpha
American computer manufacturer (1957–1998)
both the VAX and MIPS architecture in DEC's product lines. They supported OpenVMS, DEC OSF/1 AXP (later known as Digital Unix or Tru64 UNIX) and Microsoft's
Digital_Equipment_Corporation
Network protocol suite
ISBN 1-55580-769-0. DECnet-Plus manuals for OpenVMS are available at http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/ DECnet Phase IV OpenVMS manuals for DECnet Phase IV; these
DECnet
1999-12-01 AIX 10.3 2026-04-02 BSD Android BSD Cygwin Linux HP-UX iOS Maemo OpenVMS macOS Solaris Windows z/OS PuTTY Simon Tatham 1999-01-22 BSD 0.84 2026-05-22
Comparison_of_SSH_clients
Command language adopted by several operating systems (OSs)
its most powerful form in VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS). DCL continues to be developed by VSI as part of OpenVMS. DCL is a scripting language supporting several
DIGITAL_Command_Language
Network administration command-line tool
system Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, Windows, Solaris, illumos, OpenVMS Type DNS lookup tool License Mozilla Public License (ISC license before
Dig_(command)
Directory for storing temporary data in a computer file system
directory, the path is provided by the function NSTemporaryDirectory. In OpenVMS, SYS$SCRATCH and in AmigaDOS T: are used. Temporary file Temporary variable
Temporary_folder
Word processing application
"Corel WordPerfect 5.3 for OpenVMS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 17, 2003. "Corel WordPerfect 7.1 for OpenVMS" (PDF). Archived from the
WordPerfect
Web browser
(N/A) [±] Written in C Operating system Unix-like, Windows, macOS, OS/2, OpenVMS, DOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS Type Web browser License GPL-2.0-or-later Website
Links_(web_browser)
Operating system that achieved security certification
B1/B3 system formerly of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A standard OpenVMS installation is rated as CC C2. Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY-178B real-time
Security-evaluated operating system
Security-evaluated_operating_system
Text that identifies an item in a computer file system
(Technical report). Rabe, Bernhard (6 June 2011). "OpenVMS & DCL on Alpha & VAX" (PDF). "VSI OpenVMS User's Manual" (PDF). VMS Software. 2025. Retrieved
Path_(computing)
Programming language
from DEC. The DSM-11 was ported to the Alpha in two variants: DSM for OpenVMS, and as DSM for Ultrix. InterSystems with ISM (InterSystems M) on VMS (M/VX)
MUMPS
Computer filing system
(On-Disk Structure-2) and higher levels of the Files-11 file system in OpenVMS. In addition to data, the file content, a file system also manages associated
File_system
Topics referred to by the same term
of Service Civil International VMS Software Inc. A vendor/supporter of OpenVMS related software. VSI Group, British dubbing and translation company VSI
VSI
In computing, type is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS/4NT and Windows PowerShell used to display
TYPE_(DOS_command)
Family of DEC workstation computers
architecture. VAXstation systems were typically shipped with either the OpenVMS or ULTRIX operating systems. Many members of the VAXstation family had
VAXstation
Microprocessor instruction set architecture
operating systems, such as HP-UX, OpenVMS, and FreeBSD, ever supported IA-64; HP-UX's support ended in December 2025; OpenVMS still supports it, but FreeBSD
IA-64
Password cracking software tool
which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is among the most frequently used password testing and breaking programs
John_the_Ripper
Computer file containing plain text
end-of-line delimiter at the end of each line. Other operating systems, such as OpenVMS and OS/360 and its successors, have record-oriented filesystems, in which
Text_file
Standard terminal emulator for the X Window system
2026; 54 days ago (13 April 2026) Operating system Unix, Unix-like, MVS OpenVMS, OS/2 Type Terminal emulator License MIT/X Consortium License Website invisible-island
Xterm
Free software re-implementation of the SMB networking protocol
Server. Samba also runs on a number of other operating systems such as OpenVMS and IBM i. Samba is standard on nearly all distributions of Linux and is
Samba_(software)
Systems programming language
heavily in-house into the 1980s; most of the utility programs for the OpenVMS operating system were written in BLISS-32. The DEC BLISS compiler has been
BLISS
SQL database engine software
SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64. A port of MySQL to OpenVMS also exists. The MySQL server software itself and the client libraries
MySQL
Topics referred to by the same term
Description Language, used by POV-Ray Structure Definition Language of OpenVMS Security Development Lifecycle, a software development process Party of
SDL
American software company
tc1000 iPAQ handheld* tc1100** Architectures DEC Alpha* Software AltaVista OpenVMS TACL Tru64 UNIX Asterisk (*) denotes product lines continued after acquisition
Zip2
Representation of time used in computers
Run-Time Library Reference Manual for OpenVMS Systems" (PDF). VSI. November 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-17. "OpenVMS and the year 2038". HP. Retrieved 2021-04-17
System_time
Punctuation mark (;)
separated and terminated with semicolons. The file system of RSX-11 and OpenVMS, Files-11, uses semicolons to indicate a file's version number. The semicolon
Semicolon
Technique in compiler construction
compilers mangle the same functions: Notes: The Compaq C++ compiler on OpenVMS VAX and Alpha (but not IA-64) and Tru64 UNIX has two name mangling schemes
Name_mangling
Topics referred to by the same term
shipping company GNU's Not VMS, an operating system, a reimplementation of OpenVMS 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) Search for "gnv" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles
GNV
Family of programming languages
Current Yes No No Proprietary Yes Partial VSI BASIC for OpenVMS VMS Software, Inc. Current No No OpenVMS Proprietary No No Xojo (formerly REALbasic) Xojo Inc
BASIC
Improved version of the vi text editor
MS-DOS, Windows starting from Windows NT 3.1, OS/2, OS/390, MorphOS, OpenVMS, QNX, RISC OS, Linux, BSD, and Classic Mac OS. Vim is also shipped with
Vim_(text_editor)
Topics referred to by the same term
responsiveness Delta (emulator), a video game console emulator DELTA, an OpenVMS debugger Delta (situational awareness system), a system developed by the
Delta
Text-based user interface API
S-Lang programming library SMG$ – Screen-management library available under OpenVMS GNU Readline "NCURSES - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Who wrote NCURSES
Ncurses
American computer scientist
Retrieved 2007-07-06. "HP OpenVMS System Management Utilities Reference Manual". Retrieved 2008-11-26. "Nothing Stops It: VAX OpenVMS at 20" "DEC used by Digital
Dick_Hustvedt
Family of IEEE standards for compatibility between operating systems
PASE compatibility layer) MorphOS (through the built-in ixemul library) OpenVMS (through optional POSIX package) Plan 9 from Bell Labs APE - ANSI/POSIX
POSIX
Technology for controlling access to file system items
version) has a per-file read-only attribute that applies to all users. OpenVMS defines four access functions: read, write, execute and delete and user
File-system_permissions
Computer command
But quite a few remain where only one or the other shortcut works. The OpenVMS operating system command-line uses Ctrl+Y as its "abort" character, stronger
Control-Y
Series of server computers
Enterprise Linux, Debian Wheezy (Long Term Support for it has ended), and OpenVMS V8.2-1. There are 4 different generations of the Superdome: Legacy (Only
HPE_Superdome
Topics referred to by the same term
industrial rock music ensemble The Screen Management Services (SMG$) API in OpenVMS Search for "smg" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles containing SMG or
SMG
application code. Alpha hardware contains native support for IPLs. When OpenVMS was ported to Itanium in 2001, the IPL scheme was simulated using features
Interrupt_priority_level
Python reference implementation
2, 3.7) Mac OS 9 (unsupported since 2.4) MINIX (unsupported since 2.3) OpenVMS (unsupported since 3.3) OS/2 (unsupported since 3.3) RISC OS (unsupported
CPython
Type of computer software
a variety of non-Unix-like operating systems, such as Multics, VM/CMS, OpenVMS, MP/M, Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, REAL/32
Multi-user_software
Page description language
Domain/OS HP-UX** HyperSpace HP LX System Manager MPE NewWave NonStop OS** OpenVMS† QuickPlay Rocky Mountain BASIC Time-Shared BASIC Tru64 UNIX webOS† Protocols
Printer_Command_Language
Office automation product
electronic mail products. It was later known as Office Server V3.2 for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS VAX systems before being discontinued. ALL-IN-1 was advertised
ALL-IN-1
(DEC) running on PDP-11 (RSX-11, RSTS/E and RT-11), and later for its OpenVMS operating system. It can respond to single keystrokes, and uses function
EDT_(Digital)
Series of computer workstations and servers
series were DEC OSF/1 AXP (later renamed Digital UNIX) and OpenVMS AXP (later renamed OpenVMS). All DEC 3000 AXP models used the DECchip 21064 (EV4) or
DEC_3000_AXP
Standard file format for executables, object code, shared libraries, and core dumps
ELF has also seen some adoption in non-Unix operating systems, such as: OpenVMS, in its Itanium and amd64 versions BeOS Revision 4 and later for x86 based
Executable and Linkable Format
Executable_and_Linkable_Format
Fatal system error screen
panics in macOS, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, and to bugchecks in OpenVMS. A black screen of death can occur upon hardware or software failures.
Blue_screen_of_death
Topics referred to by the same term
used in Solaris from 1989 to 2002 DECwindows, an implementation for VMS/OpenVMS Windows (film), a 1980 erotic thriller Windows (TV series), a 1955 American
Windows_(disambiguation)
Recurring parody of Conan the Barbarian
Conan The Librarian, the OpenVMS HELP tool (2002). Mark Daniel wrote a script known as Conan the Librarian that makes OpenVMS Help and Text libraries accessible
Conan_the_Librarian
Days since the beginning of the Julian Period
18 bits until August 7, 2576. MJD is the epoch of VAX/VMS and its successor OpenVMS, using 63-bit date/time, which allows times to be stored up to July 31
Julian_day
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lingam
Girl/Female
Indian
Truth
Girl/Female
Indian
Dreaming Girl
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Pleased Delighted
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Breeze
Girl/Female
Arabic
Bride; Spouse
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, English
Beverage Brandy; Sweet Nectar; Name of a Liquor
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Parsi
Learned in Religious Matters
Boy/Male
Tamil
Creator
Boy/Male
Indian
Lover
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
OPENVMS
OPENVMS