Would this even remain accurate? It's a question I genuinely don't know the answer to: I suspect NIP has changed little. IPL has, I think, changed in detail (but I don't recall how).
Cheers, Martin Martin Packer WW z/OS Performance, Capacity and Architecture, IBM Technology Sales +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://mainframeperformancetopics.com Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://anchor.fm/marna-walle Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_65HaYgksbF6Q8SQ4oOvA From: Clark Morris <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 24/04/2021 21:52 Subject: [EXTERNAL] Dr. Robert Rannie's diagram of NIP was Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> [Default] On 24 Apr 2021 13:21:37 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Michael A. Shaw) wrote: >On 4/23/2021 3:43 PM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: >> Many years ago, 1982, I took my first MVS class, MVS Structure and Logic. One of >> the first handouts our class was given was a spaghetti diagram of MVS control blocks. >> Unfortunately, I threw mine away in 2016, when I thought my system programming >> days were over. > >I took that same two-week class in Chicago in 1980. The diagram in >question (as I remember it) was a joke, right? It was impossibly >complicated with curved lines and arrows and flowchart symbols all over >it. It was made to generate a chuckle, not teach actual logic flow. Were there ever any paper copies of Dr. Robert Rannie's diagram of NIP processing and if so are there any still around? Clark Morris > >I too had a copy once, but it's long gone. > >Mike > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
