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IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application

 

Hi folks!
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If you don't know what it stands for, you are only an acronym behind me:? Interactive Problem Control System.
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Did anyone ever use IPCS?

Does anyone still use IPCS?
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Do we need IPCS?
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?... Mark S.
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On 3/21/2025 8:18 PM, Mark A. Stevens via groups.io wrote:
Hi folks!
If you don't know what it stands for, you are only an acronym behind me:? Interactive Problem Control System.
Did anyone ever use IPCS?
Yes, I did use IPCS when I was working on these systems.
Does anyone still use IPCS?
I don't WORK on them anymore. I might use IPCS if I start PLAYING with these systems again.
Do we need IPCS?
I think Amdahl had its own dump analysis program (ANALYZE ?). If that is available, I would look at that.
?... Mark S.

Tom Kern

 

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 20:39 Thomas Kern via <TLK_sysprog=[email protected]> wrote:
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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