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Extending DCL? Counting Users?

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The Question is:

 
We are writing a simple DCL menu interface and would like the ability to
 display the total number of users logged into the system.
 
Apart from using a "show users" or "show lic/usage" commands, is there a way of
 obtaining the total number of intercative users logged into a system?
 
I thought that there maybe a argument in the F$GETSYI lexical function but I
 can't find it.   I know that we can write some simple DCL code to extract this
 information from a "show users" command but normally OpenVMS would provide
 some lexical function to
 obtain this type of information.

The Answer is :

 
  There is no supported means, save for a privileged process scan.
 
  Parsing the output of a DCL command is not supported and not
  recommended.  Parsing the output can fail when the format of
  the command output changes.
 
  You could, of course, create a small image that performs this task
  and then calls lib$set_symbol to set a DCL symbol containing the
  information, and then install the image (with WORLD privilege).

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 15-JUL-2004 )
     
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