Re: [External] Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Discussion List On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA? Under MVS/ESA we had expanded storage. Expanded storage allowed each page to be addressed using a 32 bit

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-08 Thread Horne, Jim
In my first shop we did a conversion from OS/VS1 straight to MVS/XA (IBM made us an offer we couldn't refuse). This was a little before CBIPO so first had to lay down a starter system that was some flavor of MVS/370 or /SP. I say that because it ran under our VM/SP (actually HPO) system.