This manual, “Concepts and Functions” introduces you to the openUTM product family and enables you to get started working with openUTM. It is aimed particularly at those who are not yet familiar with openUTM. But even if you already know and work with openUTM, you will find the manual useful for the overview it provides of the range of functions and capabilities of the product.
Rather than being concerned with the syntactic subtleties of individual statements or with the details of specific interfaces, the manual provides a general overview of the features and possible applications of openUTM. Equipped with this information, you will have no problem understanding the other manuals in the openUTM series.
Chapter 2 contains a brief description of the features of openUTM, some of which are dealt with in further detail in chapters 3 through 13.
openUTM is available for all established Unix platforms and Windows platforms and for BS2000 systems. Its functionality and interfaces are to a large extent non-platform-specific. The information given in the first chapters therefore applies for all platforms.
The last three chapters contain some platform-specific information. Chapter 14 deals with BS2000 systems, chapter 15 covers all Unix platforms and chapter 16 covers Windows platforms. The detailed lists at the end of the manual - the glossary, the list of abbreviations, the list of related publications, and the index - will help you to find your way around this manual.
Obviously, the manual cannot answer all your questions, but it will point you in the right direction for finding solutions to specific problems:
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Wherever the term Linux system is used in the following, then this should be understood to mean a Linux distribution such as SUSE or Red Hat.
Wherever the term Windows system or Windows platform is used below, this should be understood to mean all the variants of Windows under which openUTM runs.