> On Sep 14, 2017, at 12:13 AM, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Long time ago and when MVS first came out, we used to do this quite often >> (once a week). A product we had called DUO (DOS under MVS). DUO maintained a >> table in the nucleus for which dos jobs were running. They had a bug in >> their code that would not delete entries. We had to go in and blank out the >> job names that were not running(so as not to have to IPL). We finally got >> tired of doing this and wrote a program that did it. > Worked like a charm. They asked for the program and we were not in a good > mood so we said no. It took them a year to figure out how to do it.My memory > is hazy here but I think the degression was > “duo” -> went to some company in Dallas? and then a year or two later CA > bought them out. By then we had gotten rid of all the jobs. One of the long > time contributors to IBM-Main used to work for the company if he hasn’t > retired maybe he could speak up? > > > Ed, not sure how your comment relates to the topic at hand. You can always > write a program to modify just about any bit in storage, but that has nothing > to do with native support by the operating system. Peter,
The person was asking about reloading the nuc (IIRC). I just added in a bit where it was possible at one time to alter it. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
