Classification: Confidential Several years ago on this list, Jim Mulder(?) posted the NIP logic.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2021 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Dr. Robert Rannie's diagram of NIP was Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] [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 ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
