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This chapter describes how to add (tailor on) or remove (tailor off) optional OpenVMS VAX files and DECwindows support files from your system disk using VMSTAILOR and DECW$TAILOR. You will need your OpenVMS VAX software media kit to tailor on files. Any site-specific customization that has been done to a class will be lost when that class is tailored off.

10.1 Using VMSTAILOR

To add or remove unwanted OpenVMS VAX files from the system disk, use VMSTAILOR. For example, if you are not running DECnet for OpenVMS, and you do not need the network support files, you can remove those files using VMSTAILOR. If you later decide you want to run DECnet for OpenVMS, you can add the necessary files at any time using VMSTAILOR and your OpenVMS VAX distribution media. (Note that you cannot tailor files on or off an alternate device.)

10.1.1 How VMSTAILOR Works

VMSTAILOR has three phases:

1. VMSTAILOR asks if you want to tailor your system by adding files (tailor on) or by deleting files (tailor off).
2. If you choose to tailor files on, VMSTAILOR lists each class of OpenVMS VAX files and asks if you want to include them on the system disk. If you choose to tailor files off, VMSTAILOR lists each class of files and asks if you want to delete them from the system disk.
3. VMSTAILOR adds or deletes the files you indicated from the system disk. If you are tailoring files on, you must load your OpenVMS VAX distribution media in a drive available to the system. If your distribution media consists of more than one piece, put the first piece of the media into the drive.

The following is a list of classes and subclasses of OpenVMS VAX files that can be added or deleted by using VMSTAILOR. For a complete list of OpenVMS VAX files and their functions, refer to the OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 2: Tuning, Monitoring, and Complex Systems.

• Network Support

  Incoming Remote File Access files
  Incoming Remote Terminal files
  Network Test files
  Remote Task Loading

• Programming Support

  Debugger utility (DEBUG)
  Image Dump utility (ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP)
  RMS Analyze and FDL Editor utilities (ANALYZE/RMS, ANALYZE/FDL)
  Message utility (MESSAGE)
  Object and Shareable Image libraries
  MACRO libraries
  MACRO assembler
  SDL intermediary form of STARLET.MLB
  Fortran required files
  VAX C object libraries

• OpenVMS RMS Journaling Files
• System Programming Support

  Files-11 ODS-1,ISO 9660, High Sierra ACPs
  Monitor utility
  Delta/XDelta debugger
  System Dump Analyzer utility (ANALYZE/SYSTEM, ANALYZE/CRASH)
  System Symbol Table file (SYS.STB)
  Miscellaneous Symbol Table files

• Secure User's Environment

  File Access Control List utilities
  Print and Batch Queue utilities
  Input Queue Symbiont (Card Reader)
  Accounting Log Report Generator utility
  DECdtm

• Utilities

  Mail utility
  DUMP utility
  RUNOFF utility
  Phone utility
  OpenVMS Help library
  OpenVMS System Messages Help Library
  Foreign Terminal Support
  LAT-11 terminal server (via Ethernet)
  Standalone BACKUP
  Error Log Report Generator utility (ANALYZE/ERROR)
  DECTPU utility
  Terminal Fallback facility
  TECO editor
  EDT documentation
  National Character Set utility (NCS)

• VMS Workstation Support (VWS)

  Workstation device support

• BLISS require files
• Miscellaneous Files

  System map
  LPA-11 support

• User Environment Test Package
• Example Files

To remove unwanted files using VMSTAILOR, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the SYSTEM account.
2. Enter the following command and press Return:

   $ RUN SYS$UPDATE:VMSTAILOR

   
   VMSTAILOR displays a description of the VMSTAILOR program and the following message:

   Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"?

3. Enter OFF to remove unwanted files and press Return.
   The VMSTAILOR program lists each group, or class, of files and its size in blocks. Files are grouped according to their function. For example, all the files required for network support are in one class. A file class is made up of many smaller groups called subclasses. You can eliminate an entire class of files, or you can eliminate one or more of its subclasses. For example:

   CLASS - Network support Size of entire class (with subclasses): 1499 Size of common files required for any subclass: 1249 Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? . . .

4. Decide which file classes or subclasses you do not need to support your system. The VMSTAILOR program displays step-by-step instructions. Follow these instructions to specify which classes or subclasses of files you want to remove.
5. VMSTAILOR deletes the files you selected and displays the names of those files. After it finishes, AUTOGEN runs automatically to make the adjustments that are necessary after system files are deleted. AUTOGEN also reboots the system.

To add optional OpenVMS VAX files that you previously removed, or that you chose not to install during the OpenVMS VAX installation procedure, do the following:

1. Log in to the SYSTEM account.
2. Load your distribution media in a drive available to the system. For example, if your distribution media is on a TK50 tape cartridge, load the first tape cartridge in a TK50 drive that is available to the system. Make sure the drive is on line and ready.
   If you are adding files from a compact disc on an InfoServer, first determine whether the SYSGEN parameter SCSNODE is defined on your system (see Section 5.5) or start the DECnet software, and then refer to step 2 of Section 7.2.
3. Enter the following command and press Return:

   $ RUN SYS$UPDATE:VMSTAILOR

   
   VMSTAILOR displays a description of the VMSTAILOR program and the following message:

   Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"?

4. Enter ON to add files and press Return.
   The VMSTAILOR program lists each group, or class, of files and its size in blocks. Files are grouped according to their function. For example, all the files required for network support are in one class. A file class is made up of many smaller groups called subclasses. You can add an entire class of files, or you can add one or more of its subclasses. For example:

   CLASS - Network support Size of entire class (with subclasses): 1499 Size of common files required for any subclass: 1249 Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? . . .

5. Decide which file classes or subclasses you need to add. VMSTAILOR displays step-by-step instructions. Follow these instructions to specify which classes or subclasses of files you want to add.
6. VMSTAILOR adds the files you specified and displays the names of the files. After the files have been added, AUTOGEN runs automatically to make the adjustments that are necessary after system files are added. AUTOGEN also reboots the system.

After adding files to the system disk, apply any updates that affect them. OpenVMS VAX update procedures create a .TXT file that contains a description of patched files. This file usually has the following format: SYS$UPDATE:VMSUn06n.TXT.

For example, assume that you do not need the OpenVMS Phone utility (PHONE) and you run VMSTAILOR to remove those files. Later, you decide you want to use Phone. Run VMSTAILOR to return the Phone files to the system disk; then, apply any OpenVMS VAX update that has occurred since Version 7.3 that affected the Phone utility.

10.1.4 Sample Session

Example 10-1 shows how to add all Network Support files and selected Programming Support files to a system disk.

$ RUN SYS$UPDATE:VMSTAILOR
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 Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"? ON
TAILOR-ON
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 You will now be prompted with a list of the classes and subclasses of
 OpenVMS Vax files that are optional. The size of each class and subclass
 is included in the list. This will help you decide whether or not you
 want to add a class or subclass to your system.

 Under some classes, there is a set of common files that is required in order
 for any subclasses to work. These files are added when you ask
 for either the entire class or any of its subclasses.

Total size of the system disk is 2376153 blocks.
Total space used on the system disk is 2241252 blocks.
Total space left on the system disk is 134901 blocks.


CLASS - Network support
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 1499
          Size of common files required for any subclass: 1249
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? YES
CLASS - Programming Support
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 14706
          Size of common files required for any subclass: 0
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?
          Do you wish to select any of its subclasses (default = NO)? )YES
          Select the subclasses that you wish to provide:
             SUBCLASS - Debugger utility (DEBUG) (4690 blocks) [NO]: YES
             SUBCLASS - Image Dump utility (ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP) (48 blocks) [NO]: YES
             SUBCLASS - RMS Analyze and FDL Editor utilities (ANALYZE/RMS, ANALYZE/FDL)-
             (374 blocks) [NO]:YES
             SUBCLASS - Message utility (MESSAGE) (49 blocks) [NO]:
             SUBCLASS - Object and Shareable Image libraries (4311 blocks) [NO]: YES
             SUBCLASS - Macro libraries (2293 blocks) [NO]:
             SUBCLASS - Macro assembler (457 blocks) [NO]:
             SUBCLASS - SDL intermediary form of STARLET.MLB (1957 blocks) [NO]:
             SUBCLASS - FORTRAN require files (51 blocks) [NO]:
             SUBCLASS - VAX-C object libraries (471 blocks) [NO]:
CLASS - RMS journaling files
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 155
          No subclasses in this tailor class.
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?
CLASS - System programming Support
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 2286
          Size of common files required for any subclass: 93
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?
          Do you wish to select any of its subclasses (default = NO)?
CLASS - Secure User's Environment
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 919
          Size of common files required for any subclass: 0
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?
          Do you wish to select any of its subclasses (default = NO)?

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Files have been selected
Do you wish to add all of the options selected? YES
Creating temporary command file, please wait...
* Enter device containing OpenVMS distribution media: mua0:

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You can use DECW$TAILOR to add or remove some or all DECwindows X11 display server, base support, and fonts files from the system disk. For example, if you are not planning to use the DECwindows PEX (PHIGS Extensions to X) support, you can remove those files. Later, if you decide you want DECwindows programming support, you can add the files to the system disk using DECW$TAILOR and your DECwindows distribution media. You cannot tailor files on or off an alternate device.

DECW$TAILOR has three phases:

• DECW$TAILOR asks if you want to tailor your system by adding files (tailor on) or by deleting files (tailor off).
• If you choose to tailor files on, DECW$TAILOR lists each class of DECwindows files and asks if you want to include them on the system disk. If you choose to tailor files off, DECW$TAILOR lists each class of DECwindows files and asks if you want to delete them from the system disk.
• DECW$TAILOR adds or deletes the files you indicated from the system disk. If you are tailoring files on, you must load your DECwindows distribution media in a drive that is available to the system. For example, if your OpenVMS VAX distribution kit is on a TK50 tape cartridge, load the second tape cartridge, which contains the DECwindows support files, into a TK50 drive that is available to the system.

The following is a list of classes and subclasses of DECwindows files that you can add or delete using DECW$TAILOR. For a list of DECwindows files and their functions, see Appendix E.

• DECwindows base support files --- If you plan to install the separate DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS VAX layered product, you must add the base support files.
• DECwindows workstation support files --- If you are installing DECwindows support on a workstation or in a cluster that includes workstations or if you intend to install the DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS VAX layered product, you need the workstation support files. Otherwise, you do not need them.

  Note If you tailor device support files ON or OFF, the system reboots.

• 100 dots/inch video font files --- By default, some workstation monitors (for example, a VR150, VR160, or VR295) display 100 dots/inch, which gives you a more readable display when you run DECwindows applications. If your workstation monitor cannot display 100 dots/inch fonts (for example, a VR260 or VR290), you can save disk space by not selecting this option. For more information about the capabilities of your particular monitor, refer to the owner's guide for your monitor.
• 75 dots/inch video font files --- If your workstation monitor cannot display 75 dots/inch, you can save disk space by not selecting this option. For more information about the capabilities of your particular monitor, refer to the owner's guide for your monitor.

To remove DECwindows files from the system disk, do the following:

1. Log in to the SYSTEM account.
2. Type the following command, and press Return:

   $ RUN SYS$UPDATE:DECW$TAILOR

   
   DECW$TAILOR displays information about the DECW$TAILOR program and displays the following message:

   Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"?

3. Type OFF to remove unwanted files, and press Return.
   The DECW$TAILOR program lists each group, or class, of files and its size in blocks. Files are grouped according to their function. For example, all the files required for DECwindows device support are in one class. A file class is made up of many small subclasses. You can eliminate an entire class of files, or you can eliminate one or more of its subclasses. For example:

   CLASS - DECwindows workstation support files Size of entire class (with subclasses): 14301 Size of common files required for any subclass: 8937 Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? . . .

4. Decide which file classes or subclasses you need to add. DECW$TAILOR displays step-by-step instructions. Follow these instructions to specify which of the classes or subclasses you want to remove.
5. DECW$TAILOR deletes the files you selected and displays the names of those files. If you deleted device support files, the system automatically shuts down and reboots.

To install DECwindows device support and font files after the OpenVMS VAX installation or to add optional DECwindows files that you previously chose not to install or that you removed, do the following:

1. Log in to the SYSTEM account.
2. Load the OpenVMS VAX distribution media containing the DECwindows save sets in a drive available to your system. For example, if your distribution media is a TK50 tape cartridge, load the second tape cartridge into a TK50 drive that is available to the system. Make sure the drive is on line and ready.
   If you are adding files from a compact disc on an InfoServer, first determine whether the SYSGEN parameter SCSNODE is defined on your system (see Section 5.5) or start the DECnet software, and then refer to step 2 of Section 7.2 in Chapter 7.
3. Enter the following command, and press Return:

   $ RUN SYS$UPDATE:DECW$TAILOR

   
   DECW$TAILOR displays information about the DECW$TAILOR program, and displays the following message:

   Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"?

4. Type ON to add files, and press Return.
   The DECW$TAILOR program lists each group, or class, of files and its size in blocks. Files are grouped according to their function. For example, all the files required for DECwindows device support are in one class. A file class is made up of many small subclasses. You can add an entire class of files, or you can add one or more of its subclasses. For example:

   CLASS - DECwindows workstation support files Size of entire class (with subclasses): 14301 Size of common files required for any subclasses: 8937 Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? . . .

5. Decide which file classes or subclasses you do not need to support your system. The DECW$TAILOR program displays step-by-step instructions. Follow these instructions to specify which of the classes or subclasses you want to add.
6. DECW$TAILOR installs the files you selected and displays the names of those files. If you added device support files, the system automatically shuts down and reboots.

After adding files to the system disk, apply any updates that affect them. For example, suppose you delete the Version 7.3 DECwindows 100 dots/inch video font files. Later on, you are able to use the 100 dots/inch fonts, so you run DECW$TAILOR to return the files to the system disk. You must then apply any OpenVMS VAX update that has occurred since Version 7.3 that affected the 100 dots/inch video font files. OpenVMS VAX update procedures create a .TXT file that contains a description of modified files. This file usually has a name with the following format: SYS$UPDATE:VMSUn05n.TXT. (Examine this file to determine if the update patched the 100 dots/inch font files.)

10.2.5 Sample Session

Example 10-2 illustrates how to add the files for DECwindows 100 dots/inch font files.

$ RUN SYS$UPDATE:DECW$TAILOR
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 Do you want to tailor files "ON" or "OFF"? ON
TAILOR-ON
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 You will now be prompted with a list of the classes and subclasses
 of DECwindows files that are optional. The size of each class and subclass is
 included in the list. This will help you decide whether or not you want to add
 a class or subclass to your system.

 Under some classes, there is a set of common files that is required in order
 for any subclasses to work. These files are added when you ask
 for either the entire class or any of its subclasses.

Total size of the system disk is 2376153 blocks.
Total space used on the system disk is 1728072 blocks.
Total space left on the system disk is 648081 blocks.

CLASS - DECwindows base support files
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 3363

          No subclasses in this tailor class.
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?


CLASS - DECwindows workstation support files
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 12376
          Size of common files required for any subclass: 8916
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? NO
          Do you wish to select any of its subclasses (default = NO)?
CLASS - 75 dots per inch video font files
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 4537

          No subclasses in this tailor class.
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)?

CLASS - 100 dots per inch video font files
          Size of entire class (with subclasses): 3693
          No subclasses in this tailor class.
          Do you wish to select the entire class (default = NO)? YES

Files have been selected
Do you wish to add all of the options selected? YES
Creating temporary command file, please wait...
* Enter device containing DECwindows distribution media: MUA0:
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