Greetings, gentle list readers, A customer inquired about an MPE/iX skills assessment checklist. What follows is a first cut at a list that I broke down by general, programming, networking, and system management tasks. Any ideas, or other input would be greatly appreciated. TGIF Mike HP3000 MPE/iX Skills checklist, rate yourself from 0-5 on the following scale : 0- No knowledge/experience 1- Little knowledge / very rusty 2- Some knowledge / light cobwebs 3- Average knowledge / need help now and then 4- Working knowledge/ > 2yrs experience 5- Very knowledgeable/ > 5yrs experience General Topics: Account Structures and MPE/iX File System EDIT/3000 FCOPY General MPE/iX Commands Hierarchical File System HP Easytime/XL MPE/iX System Utilities SORT-MERGE/XL POSIX Shell and Utilities Programming/Development Languages Accessing Files BASIC Berkeley Sockets/iX Command Interpreter Programming Data Entry and Forms Mgmt System VPLUS HP ALLBASE HP Business BASIC/XL HP COBOL II/XL HP EDIT HP FORTRAN 77/iX HP IMAGE/SQL HP Link Editor/iX HP Pascal/iX HP RPG/iX HP Symbolic Debugger/iX User's HP TRANSACT KSAM/3000 MPE Segmenter MPE/iX Intrinsics MPE/iX Shell and Utilities ODBCLINK/SE QUERY/V System Debug TurboIMAGE/XL Networking and Communications: DSCOPY HP FTP HP SNA HP SNMP/XL HP Telnet/iX Network Management Specific MPE/iX Commands NS3000/iX NMMGR System Management HP GlancePlus HP OpenView HP Security Monitor/iX HP Security Monitor/iX User's Managing MPE/iX Security Managing Spooler Operations Mirrored Disk/iX System Startup/Shutdown System Management Specific MPE/iX Commands TurboSTORE/iX Troubleshooting Terminal, Printer and other Serial Devices Workload Manager Volume Management