Open System Services Programmer's Guide

About OSS Utilities

Hewlett-Packard Company is not responsible for the proper functioning of unsupported utilities or

facilities and will not respond to product reports about them. Such utilities and facilities include

those in the OSS /bin/unsupported directory. Use these utilities and facilities at your own risk.

Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)

This manual supports J06.03 and all subsequent J-series RVUs, H06.03 and all subsequent H-series

RVUs, and G06.25 and all subsequent G-series RVUs, until otherwise indicated in a replacement

publication.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for intermediate and advanced C application programmers who write

programs for the OSS environment. Experience with programming in a UNIX environment is

assumed.

New and Changed Information

This manual contains information about some of the following G-series development tools. For

servers running H-series RVUs, these tools are supported only in H06.05 and subsequent H-series

RVUs:

• TNS/R native C compiler

• TNS/R native C++ compiler

• TNS/R native C++ run-time library version 2

• SQL/MP for TNS/R native C

• SQL/MP Compilation Agent for TNS/R programs

• NMCOBOL compiler and nmcobol frontend

• ld

• nld

• noft

• TNS/R native pTAL

If your server is running the H06.03 or H06.04 RVU, continue to use the HP Enterprise

Toolkit—NonStop Edition or servers running G-series RVUs for development tasks that require these

tools. If your server is running J06.03 or later J-series RVUs, these tools are supported.