HP Nonstop

Background
The HP Nonstop is the mainframe that I have done most of my research on. Links to my blogpost and whitepaper can be found below.
Blogpost: 
Whitepaper:
These teach the basics of HP Nonstop and the basics of privilege escalation techniques for HP Nonstop. This is a cheat sheet for commands on the HP Nonstop and some notes that may be helpful when testing them.
Command Prompts 
Within HP Nonstop, a lot of the interaction happens by dropping into a processes shell and interacting with it directly. Each process has a different terminal prompt. These are useful to know and will be important for following along with the commands. 
Prompt
Terminal
>
TACL Shell. (Like Bash) Enter this shell by typing TACL.
=
Safeguard shell for querying Safeguard. Enter this by typing SAFECOM.
?
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Commands
Safeguard Enumeration: 
>SAFECOM; INFO DETAIL,
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>SAFECOM; INFO VOLUME $*
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>SAFECOM; INFO SUBVOL $*.*
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>SAFECOM; INFO DISKFILE $*.*.*
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>SAFECOM; INFO USER *.*
Guardian Enumeration:
>PROMPT BOTH
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>WHO
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>OSH (from here run normal linux commands) 
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>VOLUME (cd equivalent)
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>FILEINFO (ls equivalent) 
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>#PMSEARCHLIST ($PATH equivalent)
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>DSAP
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>Processes
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>SQL datasets
PMSEARCHLIST Privesc
>#PMSEARCHLIST
$SYSTEM.SYSTEM $SYSTEM.PARMLIB
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>SAFECOM; INFO SUBVOL $SYSTEM.SYSTEM 
NO RECORD FOUND 
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>SAFECOM; INFO SUBVOL $SYSTEM.PARMLIB
NO RECORD FOUND
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>VOLUME $SYSTEM.SYSTEM
>FILEINFO
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>TEDIT VULNMACRO
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Hello World TACL Macro POC
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Process Privesc
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PROGID Privesc
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CMON Privesc
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