[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > That might have made sense if CMS had full capability to LINK and ACCESS > MVS volumes, and to FILEDEF data sets via catalog lookup, and to XEDIT > PDS (later PDSE) members. Otherwise not.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#99 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#103 TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? during the FS period: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys somebody in the (burlington mall) vm370/cms development group pretty much did all that support ... but it didn't ship. then with the demise of FS, there was mad rush to get stuff back into the 370 product pipelines. it was at this time that the head of POK to convince corporate to kill the vm370/cms product and move all the people to pok to work on mvs/xa (or otherwise mvs/xa wouldn't ship on schedule some 6-7yrs later). Lots of stuff in burlington was lost in the shutdown ... including all the CMS support for native MVS volumes, and the person responsible (along with numerous others) managed to escape the move (lots going to DEC to work on vax/vms ... old joke that head of POK was one of the major contributors to vax/vms). eventually endicott managed to save the vm370/cms product mission, but had to reconstitute a development group from scratch ... various stuff in vmshare archives about code quality during this period: http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare endicott focus was then much more on vm370/cms compatibility with dos/vs (than mvs). you would find large numbers doing interactive work on vm370/cms and then shipping stuff (w/jcl) to mvs for execution (either mvs running under vm370 on the same machine or over the network between vnet and jes2 networking). inside ibm this was major mode of development ... i've mentioned before doing the channel-extender work for STL (now silicon valley lab) so the 300 people from the ims group moved to offsite bldg could have local channel attached vm370/cms interactive computing support back to stl datacenter. misc. posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#channel.extender people use to horrible MVS/TSO human factors would have hardly noticed the issues with remote 3270 support (controller running at 19.2kbits/sec back to datacenter) ... but was major issue for people use to vm370/cms interactive computing with local channel attached 3270 controllers. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
