Could have been the SVS HASP port...I joined the systems group after the VS1 to MVS migration, and never really interacted with VS1 at all.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 1:00?PM Tony Harminc <
tharminc@...> wrote:
The VS1 version, at least, allowed browsing the JES SPOOL. I know this because the programmers at my first systems job had been using SPMOL?and missed that functionality when we moved from VM and VS1 to MVS. I wound up writing a CICS port of the TSO QUEUE command to give them that capability.
I'm surprised - maybe impressed? - that such a program could browse the SPOOL in VS1, because the VS1 JES (sometimes informally called JES1 or JES0) was unlike JES2 not source maintained, and was more like an improvement to make the old OS/360 approach perform better, but wasn't a major rearchitecting.?
Back when I was young and foolish (now I'm old and maybe slightly less foolish) I thought it would be nice to add Internal Reader support to VS1. I spent a long time reading fiche, and even ordered up the optional source, but of course it was mostly in PL/S and would've involved a lot of ZAPs to call new routines. WIth hindsight it was a stupid idea because it wouldn't have been maintainable.
Ah - maybe you're talking about running the SVS HASP that was ported to VS1...?
Tony H.
Oh yes, I remember "Source Program Maintenance Online"; I think it was a Field Developed Program. I promoted its use in the Programming Department as we were having enormous losses of productivity sending card decks between towns only for them to fail with syntax errors.? I installed it at our DOS/VS r34 CICS installation and become a hero :-) The decks containing COBOL source and JCL were dispatched through CICS to Power/VS and into the background partition. I can't recollect what happened to LST and PUN output though (memory failing me...)
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