In the context of IBM mainframe computers in the S/360 line, a data set (IBM preferred) or dataset is a computer file having a record organization. Use...
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IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM since 1952. During the 1960s and 1970s, IBM dominated the computer market with the 7000 series...
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mid-1990s, when CMOS mainframe designs replaced the older bipolar technology. IBM claimed that its newer mainframes reduced data center energy costs for...
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its IBM System/360 and still being emulated on IBM mainframes. It is a self-defining format with each data record represented by a Count Area that identifies...
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IBM System z9 is a line of IBM mainframe computers. The first models were available on September 16, 2005. The System z9 also marks the end of the previously...
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indicates a line on the page where a footer can be printed. Print data sets on IBM mainframe operating systems may have either of two variants of printer control...
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the 1980s, IBM and other vendors have created PC-based IBM mainframe-compatible systems which are compatible with the larger IBM mainframe computers....
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by IBM for the IBM z16 series mainframe computers. The processor was announced at the Hot Chips 2021 conference on 23 August 2021. Telum is IBM's first...
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Z/Architecture (redirect from IBM mainframe expanded storage)
(ESAME), is IBM's 64-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture, implemented by its mainframe computers. IBM introduced its...
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in 1971 and normally used to communicate with IBM mainframes. The 3270 was the successor to the IBM 2260 display terminal. Due to the text color on the...
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announced as part of the IBM 9340 channel-attached, count key data (CKD) DASD subsystem family which attached to IBM mainframes including the ES/9000 processor...
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Watson's lieutenants, John R. Opel, who managed the launch of IBM's System/360 mainframe family in 1964. The slowest System/360 model announced in 1964...
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all IBM mainframe operating systems included sort/merge utilities. With the announcement of virtual storage operating systems, DOS/VS and OS/VS, IBM unbundled...
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DSN may refer to: Data set (IBM mainframe) Name, the name of a computer file having a record organization Data source name, a data structure used to describe...
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is available on a large number of platforms (both IBM and non-IBM), including z/OS (mainframe), IBM i, Transaction Processing Facility, UNIX (AIX, HP-UX...
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The history of IBM mainframe operating systems is significant within the history of mainframe operating systems, because of IBM's long-standing position...
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and as a terminal to a mainframe. IBM later released the 3270 AT (IBM System Unit 5273), which is a similar design based on the IBM PC AT. They also released...
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The IBM System/390 is a discontinued mainframe product family implementing ESA/390, the fifth generation of the System/360 instruction set architecture...
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in the 1960s with the introduction of the System/360 family of mainframe computers. IBM provided a comprehensive spectrum of hardware, software, and service...
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The z15 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z15 mainframe computers, announced on September 12, 2019. The processor unit chip (PU chip) has 12 cores...
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The IBM 704 is the model name of a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first...
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platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later Power and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers,...
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The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes...
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floating-point was added to IBM System z9 GA2 in 2007 using millicode and in 2008 to the IBM System z10 in hardware. Modern IBM mainframes support three floating-point...
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The IBM Basic assembly language and successors is a series of assembly languages and assemblers made for the IBM System/360 mainframe system and its successors...
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Job Control Language (redirect from IBM JCL)
for job control; not just the IBM mainframe technology with the same name. JCL-specific terminology includes: Data set A file; either temporary or permanent;...
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ISPF (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
them execute modules of IBM mainframe utility programs to do the actual work. ISPF is frequently used to manipulate z/OS data sets via its Program Development...
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The z13 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z13 mainframe computers, announced on January 14, 2015. Manufactured at GlobalFoundries' East Fishkill...
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IBM System z10 is a line of IBM mainframes. The z10 Enterprise Class (EC) was announced on February 26, 2008. On October 21, 2008, IBM announced the z10...
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