Building the Sample Environment on OpenVMS
Refer to the various shell script files in the VMS directory.
Basic steps to build on VMS:
1. Log into a privileged account (privilege is needed to start a detached process as SYSTEM)
2. Create an empty directory and copy the sample environment there.
3. Move to the VMS folder
4. Execute the BUILD.COM command procedure.
5. Edit REPLICATOR_SETUP.COM and check settings. In particular you will need to configure REPLICATOR_DATABASE based on the SQL Server database you intend to use.
6. Start replicator as a detached process by executing REPLICATOR_DETACH.COM
7. Or start the replicator as an interactive process by executing REPLICATOR_RUN.COM
8. Check the log file in the [.LOG] folder and ensure that replicator was able to connect to the database.
9. Run REPLICATOR_EXE:EMPLOYEEMAINANCE.EXE and use it to add instructions to the replicator queue.
9. Run REPLICATOR_EXE:REPLICATORMENU and test using the EMPLOYEE file.
10. Use the S command in REPLICATORMENU or run REPLICATOR_EXE:REPLICATORSSTOP.EXE to stop the replicator process.