On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:13 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/17/2007
at 04:17 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
That is interesting as we were early ship for PSF and we had our
hands
full with PSF PTF's but, I don't recall of a single JES2 issue
There was no PSF for the original 3800. It came later, with AFP.
I know that Shmuel. We were in the early ship program for PSF and all
we had were 3800-3's and two 3820's. We did NOT have any 3800's
before that. In fact we had XEROX printers. The majority of the bugs
we found in PSF were in error recovery. there might have been some
issue with JES2 in draining printers (not being able to) but
canceling PSF seemed to work. The (Xerox) units stood over in the
corner and were standalone as I recall. The system created tapes and
the operator manually had to take them over and mount them on the
xerox unit and type some commands on the console (if thats the right
term). It was somewhat error prone in that operators could forget to
print tapes. I had the idea that these were expensive and that is why
they pushed to get rid of them. Although, IIRC (memory is iffy here)
IBM approached our management and had to do a sell on cost. We were
lucky in that there was not a lot of custom programming that had been
done for the xerox printers, so the conversion was relatively
painless. IIRC (and it's been 15+ years) we had to create some
IEBGENER jobs to chop off the data from 134-144 and some Fileaid
jobs to insert 5A records. I was able to do this in an afternoon or
less. Like I said we were lucky in that almost no custom programming
had been done. We were really lucky that we did not have to touch any
COBOL programs to accomplish this or the conversion would have
probably would have taken months.
Ed
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