searching for CP-67/CMS and TSS/360 software distribution tapes

2019-02-01 Thread Mark Waterbury
Hello, IBM mainframers! I am currently working with some folks who are building a new IBM System/360 simulator using SIMH for historical software preservation purposes.  The plan includes supporting the unique features of the model 67. We are looking for machine readable copies of IBM's

Re: VSAM share-option 4

2018-09-05 Thread Mark Waterbury
Who said SVS did not have VSAM? SVS certainly did have VSAM ... It was an ICR -- Independent Component Release -- so somewhat tricky to get it installed into SVS, but once installed, it did work... and CICS/VS used it ... This was on SVS 1.7 circa 1976-77... And, just like on MVS, on SVS, we

does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-17 Thread Mark Waterbury
I recently was given a tape image of a tape made on VM/370 circa 1977 or so ... and looking at the tape image with AWSBrowse it looks "similar to" a CMS TAPE DUMP or VMFPLC2 DUMP ... but it's not ... It has similar looking headers for each file, but instead of fixed length records, it has

Searching for IBM Query By Example (QBE) IUP for VM/370 from mid-1970s

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Waterbury
Hello, all: I am searching to see if anyone can find a copy of the IBM Query-By-Example product that ran under VM/370 circa the mid-1970s ... it was released as an IUP, and was supported directly by IBM personnel working at the IBM Research Labs at Yorktown Heights, NY around 1974 or 1975,