old RJE 360 workstation mod - reflexivity
The current thread about reflexivity reminds me of an old program we tested in the mid-70's, before NJE, that was called the Iowa Workstation. It was a modification from the University of Iowa of the HRTPB360 program that came with JES2, that allowed it to run as a task on MVS instead of on an RJE station, so the MVS system could appear as an RJE station to another system, or to itself. I'm not sure if we ever used it to connect to a separate system, certainly not on a regular basis, but we must have tested it by connecting it to the same system it was running on, presumably using bisync. Maybe someone here will correct me, saying No, that would not be possible with bisync. I was able to find a later version of it from ORNL that included modifications by Jack Schudel, on the CBTTAPE JES2 page, in files 18 and 19. Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: old RJE 360 workstation mod - reflexivity
On 24 March 2014 12:03, Bill Godfrey yak36...@yahoo.com wrote: The current thread about reflexivity reminds me of an old program we tested in the mid-70's, before NJE, that was called the Iowa Workstation. It was a modification from the University of Iowa of the HRTPB360 program that came with JES2, that allowed it to run as a task on MVS instead of on an RJE station, so the MVS system could appear as an RJE station to another system, or to itself. I'm not sure if we ever used it to connect to a separate system, certainly not on a regular basis, but we must have tested it by connecting it to the same system it was running on, presumably using bisync. Maybe someone here will correct me, saying No, that would not be possible with bisync. It was certainly possible; I too did it for testing on VS1 in the mid 1970s, though with my own mods. HRTPB360, btw, is shipped to this day with z/OS as SYS1.MODGEN(HRTPB360). Hmmm... quite possibly this is the only piece of z/OS source code that is still shipped and explicitly marked COPYRIGHT = NONE. If only the IBM lawyers knew... Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: old RJE 360 workstation mod - reflexivity
Tony, We has a RJE type driver we wrote for RSCS many moons ago..brings back good VM memories Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Mar 24, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 24 March 2014 12:03, Bill Godfrey yak36...@yahoo.com wrote: The current thread about reflexivity reminds me of an old program we tested in the mid-70's, before NJE, that was called the Iowa Workstation. It was a modification from the University of Iowa of the HRTPB360 program that came with JES2, that allowed it to run as a task on MVS instead of on an RJE station, so the MVS system could appear as an RJE station to another system, or to itself. I'm not sure if we ever used it to connect to a separate system, certainly not on a regular basis, but we must have tested it by connecting it to the same system it was running on, presumably using bisync. Maybe someone here will correct me, saying No, that would not be possible with bisync. It was certainly possible; I too did it for testing on VS1 in the mid 1970s, though with my own mods. HRTPB360, btw, is shipped to this day with z/OS as SYS1.MODGEN(HRTPB360). Hmmm... quite possibly this is the only piece of z/OS source code that is still shipped and explicitly marked COPYRIGHT = NONE. If only the IBM lawyers knew... Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
