Re: IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application
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On 3/21/2025 8:18 PM, Mark A. Stevens via wrote:
Do we need IPCS?
I think Amdahl had its own dump analysis program (ANALYZE ?). If
that is available, I would look at that.
The best dump tool I've ever seen, bar none, ?was Kolinar's KPROBE, and I spent 20 years working on applications for VM, 12 of them developing and supporting VMBACKUP and its siblings.? I vaguely recall that Jim Bergstrom sold Kolinar to VM Systems Group, which later became Relay Technologies.? I can't remember whether we (Sterling Software) acquired KPROBE when Relay sold us some of its VM products, or whether it stayed behind.? Regardless, it's almost certainly lost to the sands of time now. ?
KPROBE was like XEDIT for dumps.? My colleagues and I wrote several hundred KPROBE macros to make analyzing dumps easier, in Rexx, of course.
Ross
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