I have been following an installation for some software and I have come across this instruction which has stopped me in my tracks. "The batch processing queue, SYS$BATCH, must be defined for the system..." If I type: $ show log sys$batch I get: %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name SYS$BATCH So this is not something that is already defined. I need to do it myself. The documentation continues: SYS$BATCH must be initialized as an execution queue. The /GENERIC option for SYS$BATCH initialization is not allowed. What does this mean? none

SYS$BATCH is a queue and should show up with the command : $ SHOW QUEUE SYS$BATCH Something like this will be displayed : Batch queue SYS$BATCH, idle, on RULBR4:: /AUTOSTART_ON=(RULBR4::) /BASE_PRIORITY=3 /JOB_LIMIT=4 /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) If the queue is defined with /GENERIC it points to one or more batch or print queues. Generic queues show up like: $ SHOW QUEUE SYS$BATCH Generic batch queue SYS$BATCH /GENERIC=(RULBR4_BATCH) /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) In this case the generic queue SYS$BATCH points to an execution queue RULBR4_BATCH More info about queues with the command : $ HELP QUEUE or the OpenVMS system manager's manual, Volume 1 Essentials : http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/os82_index.html

How do I get sys$batch up and running? Username: system Password: Welcome to OpenVMS (TM) Alpha Operating System, Version V7.2-1 on node AS800 Last interactive login on Tuesday, 5-JUL-2005 14:02:20.11 Last non-interactive login on Tuesday, 5-JUL-2005 16:30:33.79 $ SHOW QUE SYS$BATCH %JBC-E-JOBQUEDIS, system job queue manager is not running $ SHOW QUEUE SYSBATCH %JBC-E-JOBQUEDIS, system job queue manager is not running $ none

The documentation for starting the Queue Manager and Creating a Queue Database says to do this or to do that “only if you want to crate new database files” I assume that I do want to create new database files because of this: $ SHOW QUEUE SYSBATCH %JBC-E-JOBQUEDIS, system job queue manager is not running none

Have you tried to START the queue manager ? $ START /QUEUE /MANAGER If it complains about not having a database, you probably do not have one, or the logical pointing to it is lost. The name of the default database is SYS$SYSTEM:QMAN$MASTER.DAT Do you have a printer connected to the machine, because they also use queues and a queue manager.

$ START/QUEUE/MANAGER/NEW_VERSION Is supposed to create the server. Isn't that correct? I type: $ START/QUEUE/MANAGER/NEW_VERSION and it does not give me any errors. THat means it started. Isn't that correct? So I go to where the QMAN$MASTER.DAT file is to make sure it is created $ SET DEF SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE] $ DIR *MASTER.DAT Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE] QMAN$MASTER.DAT;1 TFF$MASTER.DAT;1 Total of 2 files. So, I see it is there. Now I check on sys$batch. $ SHOW QUEUE SYS$BATCH %JBC-E-NOSUCHQUE, no such queue $ It still does not work. none

You have only created the queue-manager, not the queue. You create one with a command like: $ INITIALIZE/QUEUE/BATCH SYS$BATCH To see if it is created you can do : $ SHOW QUEUE SYS$BATCH /FULL I don't know if your package has some requirements for the queue, like the amount of jobs that can run concurrent, security, ownership or the priority of the jobs ? You can always change queue parameters with the SET QUEUE command. After you created the queue you activate it with the START /QUEUE command. You should als put the start/queue and start/queue/manager comands in your startup file.