Or EOB or a CID deck.

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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 6:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

> I'll bet 99% of people -- even those who ran OS/360 --
> didn't t know what Roll out / Roll in did.

I hope that you weren't expecting me to take that bet. 99% of the users also 
didn't know what BAL, drums, GJP or SGJP were either.

The world is divided into two kinds of people; those that never experienced a 
noodle picker or Mother Fletcher, and those that wish they hadn't.

> How about here

That a legitimate diagram. The one that the OP metioned was deliberately 
obfuscated to make it look more complicated than it actually was. It was a true 
classic.


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Subject: Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

I'll bet 99% of people -- even those who ran OS/360 -- didn't t know what Roll 
out / Roll in did.

I found it included in Mitre OS/360 SYSGEN when I joined company in 1971, 
laughed, exercised it, removed it -- saving xxKB from resident nucleus, back 
when bytes were precious.

It enabled JCL options, something like Rollout=yes and Rollin=yes. Specify 
former, job was eligible to be pushed entirely out of memory to disk. Specify 
latter, job was eligible to push jobs out to make room. Or maybe that's 
backwards, or maybe those aren't the precise options.

Some jobs designated as bullies, others wimps. Of course nobody at Mitre had 
ever used them; for grins I coded two jobs, one each. Ran wimp job, then bully 
job. Operator got a couple mysterious messages he'd never seen before about 
wimp job being rolled out and rolled in. Then I redid SYSGEN minus that 
pointless option. It was early primitive swapping.

Lizette Koehler <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> said:

How about here

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