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    OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360...
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  • programs included in or available for OS/360 and successors. IBM categorizes some of these programs as utilities and others as service aids; the boundaries...
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    Solaris, and BSD systems, Mach-O in macOS, etc. In OS/360 and successors, a job may assign arbitrary data set names (dsnames) to the ddnames SYSABEND and SYSUDUMP...
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    share it. In some operating systems, e.g. Burroughs/Unisys MCP, and OS/360 and successors, memory is managed by the operating system. In other operating...
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  • respectively. Dynamic linking from Assembler language programs in IBM OS/360 and its successors is done typically using a LINK macro instruction containing a Supervisor...
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  • throughput. FBA is supported by VM/370 and DOS/VSE, but not MVS or successor operating systems in the OS/360 line. Processors with FICON channels can...
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  • e.g., OS/360 and successors on IBM System/360 architecture and successors. In OS/360, OS/VS1, SVS, MVS/370, MVS/XA, MVS/ESA, OS/390 and z/OS, the TCB: 311–321 ...
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    collected: System Management Facilities (SMF) data z/OS system log (SYSLOG) OS/360 and successors#Timeline Fujitsu MSP HiperDispatch Hitachi VOS3 Intelligent...
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  • with low-end machines; but hardware was already available and the OS/360 project fell further and further behind schedule, as described at length by Fred...
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    and added various other improvements, and the result is now named z/OS. IBM ended support for the older OS/390-branded versions in late 2004. OS/360 MVS...
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  • slowly. This generally improves performance by reducing cache thrashing. IBM OS/360 was available with three different schedulers. The differences were such...
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  • 709, and 7090) OS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes OS/360 (first official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture) PCP...
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    process and the operating system. In most systems, system calls can only be made from userspace processes, while in some systems, OS/360 and successors for...
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  • Information passed to and from the SVC routines is passed in general purpose registers or in memory. Under OS/360 and successors, return from an SVC routine...
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    In the storage architecture of OS/360 and successors, CMS, and DOS/360 and successors, the Volume Table of Contents (VTOC) is a data structure that provides...
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    MVS (redirect from OS/MVS)
    System/370, System/390 and IBM Z IBM mainframe computers. IBM developed MVS, along with OS/VS1 and SVS, as a successor to OS/360. It is unrelated to IBM's...
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  • assembly language and successors is a series of assembly languages and assemblers made for the IBM System/360 mainframe system and its successors through the...
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  • IBM's OS/360 and successors computer operating systems on System/360 and later mainframes. BDAM "consists of routines used in retrieving data from, and storing...
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  • units and devices. EXCP for OS/360 and successors is more specifically described in the OS System Programmer's Guide.; EXCP for DOS/360 and successors is...
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    New York to fill a gap at the low end of the System/360 line when it became apparent that OS/360 was not able to run on the smallest systems. BPS (Basic...
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    Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2); it is the successor system to the MVT option of Operating System/360. OS/VS2 (SVS) was a stopgap measure pending...
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  • yielding EOF immediately. In IBM operating systems DOS/360 and successors and also in OS/360 and successors such files would be assigned in JCL to DD DUMMY....
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  • the file and maintained by the system. IBM supports indexed files with the Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM) on OS/360 and successors. IBM virtual...
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    Operating system (redirect from Desktop OS)
    subroutine or in a separate thread, e.g., the LINK and ATTACH facilities of OS/360 and successors. An interrupt (also known as an abort, exception, fault...
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  • environment for IBM mainframe operating systems, including OS/360 MVT, OS/VS2 (SVS), MVS, OS/390, and z/OS. In computing, time-sharing is a design technique that...
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  • is not the same as the unrelated LINK subroutine in GNU Fortran. OS/360 and successors use the XCTL (for "transfer control") macro for chain loading. Because...
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  • hierarchical database and information management system with extensive transaction processing capabilities. Runs on OS/360 and successors. IBM Customer Information...
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  • customer. IMS was only available for OS/360 and its successors, but CICS was also available for DOS/360 and its successors. For many years this type of product...
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  • directory/allocation table, and they do not necessarily correspond to a contiguous data area on disk. IBM OS/360 and successors allocate files in multiples...
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  • Method (TCAM) is an access method, in IBM's OS/360 and successors computer operating systems on IBM System/360 and later, that provides access to terminals...
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