Compile a PMDF command definition file into an OpenVMS shareable image.

Syntax

PMDF CLBUILD cld-file-spec

Command Qualifiers	Defaults
/DEBUG	/NODEBUG
/IMAGE_FILE=file-spec	/NOIMAGE_FILE
/MAXIMUM	/NOMAXIMUM
/OPTION_FILE=file-spec	/NOOPTION_FILE
/SIZES	/NOSIZES
/STATISTICS	/NOSTATISTICS

Parameters

cld-file-spec

The file specification of a PMDF command line definition file to read as input, e.g., PMDF_COM:pmdf.cld

Description

The CLBUILD utility compiles a command line definition file into an OpenVMS shareable image. The resulting image can then be installed with the OpenVMS INSTALL utility.

PMDF ships with a pre-compiled command line definition image so it is not normally necessary to run this utility.

Command Qualifiers

/DEBUG

/NODEBUG (default)

The /DEBUG qualifier causes CLBUILD to output debug information regarding its operation.

/IMAGE_FILE=file-spec

/NOIMAGE_FILE (default)

By default, CLBUILD does not produce a compiled command definition file. In order to produce a compiled command definition file, the file to produce must be specified using the /IMAGE_FILE qualifier. Note that the logical name PMDF_COMMAND_DATA may be specified as the image file-spec, if the goal is to produce a compiled version of the main PMDF command definition file, PMDF_COM:pmdf.cld.

/MAXIMUM

/NOMAXIMUM (default)

The file PMDF_TABLE:maximum_command.dat is read when /MAXIMUM is specified. This file specifies near maximum table sizes but does not change any other command option file parameter settings. Only use this qualifier if the current table sizes are inadequate. The /NOIMAGE_FILE and /OPTION_FILE qualifiers should always be used in conjunction with this qualifier---it makes no sense to output the enormous command definition image that is produced by /MAXIMUM, but it does make sense to use /MAXIMUM to get past size restrictions in order to build a properly sized command option file so that a properly sized command definition image can be built with a subsequent CLBUILD invocation.

/OPTION_FILE[=file-spec]

/NOOPTION_FILE (default)

CLBUILD can optionally produce a command option file that contains correct table sizes to hold the command definitions which were just compiled (plus a little room for growth). The /OPTION_FILE qualifier causes this file to be read as input and a new such option file created as output. If /OPTION_FILE is specified with no value, then the file written will have the same name as the input command definition file, but with the file extension .cop; for instance, if the file PMDF_COM:pmdf.cld was the input parameter, then the default name for the output command option file would be PMDF_COM:pmdf.cop. If the /NOOPTION_FILE qualifier is specified (the default), then no option file will be output. Note that use of the /MAXIMUM qualifier causes CLBUILD to read options from maximum_command.dat in addition to any command option file. This file specifies near maximum table sizes. Only use this qualifier if the current table sizes are inadequate, and only use it to create a new command option file. The /NOIMAGE qualifier should always be specified when /MAXIMUM is specified since a maximum-size image would be truly enormous and extremely wasteful.

/SIZES

/NOSIZES (default)

The /SIZES qualifier instructs PMDF CLBUILD to output information on the sizes of the uncompiled command definitions.

/STATISTICS

/NOSTATISTICS (default)

The /STATISTICS qualifier instructs CLBUILD to output information on the compiled conversion tables. These numbers give a rough measurement of the efficiency of the compilation, and may indicate whether or not an additional rebuild with the /OPTION_FILE qualifier is needed.

EXAMPLES

The standard commands used to compile the basic PMDF command definition file and restart PMDF to use it, plus update the system DCL tables, are:

$ PMDF CLBUILD/OPTION_FILE/IMAGE_FILE=PMDF_COMMAND_DATA PMDF_COM:pmdf.cld $ INSTALL REPLACE PMDF_COMMAND_DATA $ SET COMMAND/TABLE=SYS$COMMON:[syslib]dcltables.exe - _$ /OUTPUT=SYS$COMMON:[syslib]dcltables.exe PMDF_COM:pmdf.cld $ INSTALL REPLACE SYS$LIBRARY:dcltables.exe