So, you are asking for the equivalent of MPE command in HP-UX, so you can
turn MPE jobs into UNIX shell scripts, right? There was a recent mention of
an MPE to HP-UX cross-reference, but I do not have that URL handy. Perhaps
another of the list members can provide it. I did find a CI programming
paper at
http://jazz.external.hp.com/papers/SolSymposium_01/CIprogramming/index.htm,
and "Programming and POSIX" at
http://jazz.external.hp.com/papers/SolSymposium_02/posix-programming-005_fil
es/frame.htm

RUN is what it sounds like; it explicitly runs a program, and allows you to
pass it parameters in PARM and INFO strings, and point it to particular
libraries, among a few other things, and solves for MPE the problems UNIX
has with pathing vulnerabilities (which may be more than you need to know
about RUN). See HELP RUN ALL for more information.

STREAM is how we run a job in the background. Unlike UNIX, a job has to be
written as a job, not as a script (or what we call command files). Each line
is prefixed with a particular character, the default being !. And, it begins
with a JOB statement, and should end with an EOJ statement. We can stream a
job to run at a particular date and time, which you would do with cron, I
assume (does HP-UX offer other facilities?). Instead of the output going to
mail, it goes to a numbered STDLIST, which normally lives in /HPSPOOL/OUT.
For those jobs that are stream immediately, in HP-UX, you would just run
those in the background, or "at now".

I hope that's enough to get you started so you can encounter harder problems
;-) Please post any other specifics you have.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

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