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Re: Jay Moseley's sysgen instructions
Please, download correct version of mvsInstallationResources from https://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/installMVS/iPREREQv8.htm Andre
By Andre · #5104 ·
Jay Moseley's sysgen instructions
Hi - just a note to document a small error in the above remarkably detailed and comprehensive instructions. SMPJOB04 instruction section requests tape j90012.het - this is present but appears to be
By William Turner · #5103 ·
Re: Historical Question
That is certainly better than the reputation the MSS had; when the Central Bank switched to IBM, we had NCR CRAM units ("double drop!") and at some time the MSS was discussed briefly. But rumour had
By [email protected] · #5102 ·
Re: Historical Question
My current employer recently received three new DS8A00 storage arrays, the latest, 10th generation, in IBM's DS8000 SAN storage array line. All drives in the arrays are flash core modules. --
By Kevin Monceaux · #5101 ·
Re: Historical Question
This discussion has been interesting, a good idea that never really worked out due to implementation. --- I was unaware that IBM had discontinued all spinning platters, while I certainly myself
By Dave Trainor - N8ZFM · #5100 ·
Re: Historical Question
Back in, probably the mid 1990's, the competitive analysis team of the tape development mission in Tucson, bought one of these STK tape library silos and played around with it. They wanted to find a
By Charles Bailey · #5099 ·
Re: Historical Question
Oh yes .. the MSS (or Mess as we used to call it). The JES3 interfaces were horrendous - JES3 tried to own all tapes and disks. The cobbled together MSS support was a support nightmare. At the time I
By S. L. Garwood · #5098 ·
Re: Historical Question
Even modern machines can be interesting. I was on-site at an implementation of a new IBM tape robot box a few years back. The box tested out fine, but intermittently shut down when we were loading
By Tom Brennan · #5097 ·
Re: Historical Question
Charles, All true - with the caveat - when it worked - it was fun and amazing - HOWEVER, when it failed - there were some horrific messes - We used to laugh that this was a VERY INTELLIGENT MACHINE
By Jeff Bassett · #5096 ·
Re: Historical Question
When I worked for IBM in Tucson, AZ, in the early 1980's, much of our data was stored on MSS. When we would run a foreground job from TSO, the application would typically output a message like:
By Charles Bailey · #5095 ·
Re: Historical Question
Dave, The 3850 mass store was at the time quite a device - And due to the high cost of DASD at the time - it really did serve a purpose - At the larger shops that had these - you will hear all
By Jeff Bassett · #5094 ·
Re: Historical Question
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3850 [email protected]> wrote:
By Mike Schwab · #5093 ·
Re: Historical Question
I would say it was hard to design systems that made efficient use of them. I can see that some Universities and research organizations in the UK had them. I think at Manchester University they were
By Dave Wade · #5092 ·
Re: Historical Question
The 3850 (and the 2821 before it, which performed a similar function in a much different manner) were notoriously unreliable, with serious issues surrounding the function of retrieving and storing of
By Jay Maynard · #5091 ·
Historical Question
So I am studying the OS JCL and Utilities book (Michael Trombetta) from the mid 80's, good book ,was recommended to me for the MVS 3.8j era of JCL. Am happy with it and can also recommend it. They
By Dave Trainor - N8ZFM · #5090 ·
Re: REVIEW R51.6
Hi All, I will release MVS-TK5 Update 4 in a few days. Review 51.6 is included and many more components. Cheers, Rob
By Rob Prins · #5089 ·
Re: The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Dear Patrik, I get your skepticism, but i was not born yesterday, and also pretty familiar with all this new AI stuff. Of course if you ask deep complex question, there is a chance that you will get
By Andre · #5088 ·
Re: The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Hello Andre, I hate to spoil your enthusiasm, but… Am 04.02.2025 um 22:02 schrieb Andre via groups.io <http://groups.io/> <procritic@...>: … and a dream it is. If you blindly
By Patrik Schindler · #5087 ·
The FUTURE is here. Finally! AI from IBM that can answer all your MVS, z/OS, z/VM, JCL, HLASM or COBOL questions. FOR FREE!!!
Hello guys, good news indeed. My dreams come true, i don't need to search answers in documentation anymore, because there is AI Helper from IBM itself, which will explain to me in detail anything and
By Andre · #5086 ·
Re: REVIEW R51.6
Hello Greg, Am 21.01.2025 um 11:15 schrieb Greg Price via groups.io <procegrog@...>: Has anybody done an install "procedure" (aka: JCL) matching the turnkey environment? I think this
By Patrik Schindler · #5085 ·