3480 did not exist for IBCDMPRS but if you look close at your tape, you might find that it is not really a 3480 You could search the WEB or try something like:...
... No. "Multitasking with a Variable number of Tasks". A version (gen option?) of OS/360. The first of the OS family to support TSO. Add virtual storage...
hi. i'd like to know something about the SMF records. - how can i activate this function ? - what kind of data do SMF records store ? - how can i read these...
I'm pretty sure it was "Multiprogramming" rather than "Multitasking". FYI, the term SVS didn't appear until MVS had come along, and neither term was official...
... However, the SVC call which actually establishes a region in MVT is the GETPART option of SVC 10. To execute a GETPART, you specify SUBPOOL 247 to SVC 10,...
... PCP = Primary Control Program (abandoned after R19) MFT = Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (abandoned after R21) MVT = Multiprogramming with a...
Yes, the "M" in MVT and MFT stood for multi-programing - multi-processing in that era appears only to have referred to the 360/65 with the multi-processor (two...
Hi Tony, I suspect that you have the drop on me in terms of breadth of knowledge, but IIRC, CP handles DIAG via an execution exception (ie. unrecognised...
... FLIH ... DOES ... DIAG is opcode x'83'. It is a defined opcode. In the original VM (pre- SIE), it cause a "Priviledged Operation Exception" because all...
MFT - multiprocessing with a fixed number of tasks MVT - multiprocessing with a variable number of tasks There are two distinct meanings associated with the...
Thanks for fleshing out the details John. Like I say it's ben a long time. However the principle remains true. Hercules can do whatever it wants with opcode...
... True.. But certainly a Bad Thing(tm) to do... By doing this you defeat the entire concept of virtualisation and probably a score more key architectural...
Hello from Gregg C Levine I think I should be honored. I, ahem, started the original thread discussing some of the really relevant things that I want to do...
Well, it seems to be getting confusing - I look in GC28-6628-7, IBM System Operating Systems, System Control Blocks, date page missing, but the pub corresponds...
... Not having used the utility in a while, I would say the error is the last statement showing. Sure ibcdasdi supports the 3390s? I would say it doesn't....
scott,ÄúºÃ£¡ but I found this page, ibcdasdi seems to support 3390-3? http://linux.s390.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=362&t=362 ... = = = = = = = = = = = = =...
Peter H is correct. My definition of MVS varies only slightly: "Multple Virtual Storage spaces". I have also seen the definition of MVS mean "Multiple Virtual...
hi. i'd like to know something about the SMF records. - how can i activate this function ? - what kind of data do SMF records store ? - how can i read these...
Installed Hercules V3.02 on W2000 and after eliminating all error messages, I start Hercules and all the right messages come out but it just seems to stop for...
Why do you think you need a channel card to understand this? If you go the I/O route, you really only need to understand how PIOCS (Physical I/O Control...
... "Greg Price" <greg.price@o...> wrote: - - - snipped - - - ... Both MFT and VS1 did have an option to change partition sizes during IPL and I am certain...
... While I don't have much actual experience with this on MFT, I would suspect "often" is to generous a term. Remember you'd have to drain the partition in...
... It does this through an ATTENTION interruption, which is quite a bit different from that described in the quotation below. Indeed, through the mechanism of...
when you say "stop" did you mean hercules ended? or does it just sit there doing nothing? looks to me like you forgot to ipl a guest operating system on...
All you need is in the standard MVS documentation : "MVS_System_Managment_Facility-SMF". Everything can be recorded into the VSAM SYS1.MANx files. Depending on...
... I do. Started with MFT release 18, got to 21.7 and then to VS1. ... You may have never seen me operate MFT. ... Even I didn't change the size or location ...