Preface
1. Purpose of This Guide
This manual describes how to install Endless PL/I for OpenVMS on the VAX, Alpha, I64 and x86-64 platforms.
Keep this document with your distribution kit. You will need it to install maintenance updates or to reinstall this product for any other reason.
Reader's comments are important to the development of this document. If you have comments on this document, please take the time to email Endless Software Solutions support on support@es.solutions. Your comments will be considered for the next revision of this guide.
2. Intended Audience
This document is intended for system managers and applies to the current versions and all future maintenance-update versions to the current versions. A major version number is represented by the digits to the left of the decimal point, and a maintenance-update version number is indicated by the digits to the right of the decimal point.
3. Related Documentation
In addition to this guide, the PL/I documentation set includes:
Endless PL/I for OpenVMS User Manual
Endless PL/I for OpenVMS Reference Manual
This guide contains cross-references to the following OpenVMS documentation:
OpenVMS system messages documentation
4. Conventions
Table 1, “Conventions Used in this Manual” lists the conventions used in this guide:
| Convention | Meaning |
|---|---|
| UPPERCASE TEXT | Uppercase letters indicate the name of a command, file, parameter, procedure, or utility. |
$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL
| In interactive examples, boldface type indicates user input. System output, such as prompts and messages, is not shown in boldface. |
$
| The dollar sign indicates the DCL prompt. The operating-system prompt may be different on your system. |
| Ctrl/x | In procedures, a sequence such as Ctrl/x indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another key or a pointing-device button. |
| Return | In procedures, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press a key on the keyboard. |
| ⋮ | Vertical ellipsis in an example indicates that information not directly related to the example has been omitted. |
| file-spec,... | Horizontal ellipsis indicates that the user can enter additional parameters, values, or information. |
| [logical-name] | Brackets in syntax diagrams indicate that the enclosed item is optional. (Brackets are required, however, as delimiters of a directory name in a file specification or in the syntax of a substring specification in an assignment statement. In addition, default responses appear in brackets ([]) throughout the installation procedure.) |
5. Terminological Conventions
The word PL/I applies to Endless PL/I V3.9 for OpenVMS VAX, Endless PL/I V5.0 for OpenVMS Alpha, Endless PL/I V5.0 for OpenVMS I64 and Endless PL/I V5.0 for OpenVMS x86-64 unless otherwise indicated.