On 15 Feb 2016 18:24:12 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >We are currently in the process of restoring a 4341 to operating condition. >We have just last week corrected a fault in the power system, and are able to >power the system up and IML it from floppy. > >We are now deciding what operating system to run on the restored system. Most >likely, we will run VM/370, but possibly we will run an MVS guest as well. I >used to be an MVS systems programmer, but that was more than 30 years ago, and >even the rust has eroded away.
You could always run MVT release 21.8. Just gen it as 158. I'll try to remember more details from when I did it back in the 1980s due to a flooded out 360/65. War story available without much prompting. Brush up on unit control words for your peripherals regardless of operating system. Clark Morris >I would like to brush up on operations and systems programming, which would be >much simpler if a modern z/OS and/or z/VM course would suffice for the older >operating systems. Have the operator commands and programming utilities >changed radically since 1984 (JES2, CMS)? > >Please feel free to reply privately if you wish to tell me how foolish this >sounds. > >Thanks, >Rich Alderson > > >Rich Alderson >Sr. Systems Engineer >Living Computer Museum >2245 1st Ave S >Seattle, WA 98134 > > >http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/ > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
