JJ,
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 01:00:20PM -0800, John James wrote:
Following on from my post dated December 13th, I had a spare hour this
evening, and I downloaded the "The DL/I" system (AKA, I believe, IMS/360);
I did the stage 1 and stage 2 sysgen to install the DB-only system on
TK4-, and everything appears to have gone well. Of course, I have no idea
whether it's going to work OK because I don't have an IMS DB application
that I can run to test it.
It don't think it will work, unless someone has found a way to work around
the OSAM appendage issue. If I remember correctly, the OSAM appendage is
incompatible with MVS, and the source code library on the tape is
incomplete.
So, a question: does anyone out there have a sample IMS DB application
that I could get hold of, or do you know where I can find one (perhaps
some very old IMS/360 manual or something?). It would have to be not only
the programs themselves, but also the control blocks and some data to load
a DL/I database.
I managed to get it running on MVT many moons ago. Unfortunately I put it
aside for too many years, didn't make adequate notes, and attempts to get it
running again on MVT have been less than successful. It's been a few years
since I last tried. Maybe I should give it another shot one of these years.
The first time around, I did create a very simple contact address/phone
number database. I took a list of given names, surnames, street names,
etc., and used them to generate random data to insert into the database.
The jobs I used, containing the programs, random data, etc., can be found
at:
--
Kevin
Bruceville, TX
What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.
