> On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:07 AM, Mike Cairns <[email protected]> wrote: > > The first ten years of my mainframe career I never saw a true IBM > installation. First I worked with a Fujistu and MSP, then I moved to a shop > that had Amdahl kit, and after that a shop that was Hitachi. At least for > the Amdahl and Hitachi the OS was really MVS, OS/390 etc. > > The Fujitsu environment worked almost exactly the same as the MVS system from > the perspective of an applications programmer. The sysprogs probably knew > more about the differences than I did at the time. We ran Adabas/Natural, > lots of PL/1, SAS, and probably many more besides that I didn't know about > (this was my first shop, I was quite young and completely inexperienced of > course). > > Interesting things I remember about the Fujitsu OS: > > MVS was called MSP - Multiple Systems Product if I recall correctly. But > apparently you could see the IBM copyright in the load modules in some > places... > TSO was called TSS - Time Sharing System > RACF was still called RACF - and worked exactly the same > Though JCL was the same, we had something called JOL - Job Oriented Language. > This was a set of ISPF panels that walked you through creation of each > jobstep and built (awful) dynamically allocated JCL. > ISPF was called SPF - Systems Productivity Facility
ISPF was originally called (and IMO named incorrectly System Programmer Facility) > We had something called GEM - I forget the acronym, this was a source/version > control system if I recall correctly. > Used to have to use the TSO SUBMIT and OUTPUT commands a lot - but I guess > this was no different from MVSes of the same era (early 80's). OUTPUT command has been there day 1 with TSO. > We didn't have SDSF. SDSF came in the late 80’s ?? I think I remember the white page(s) sheet but its lost in the great bit bucket. I am reasonably sure that it was a FDP (field developed program but wouldn’t bet lunch on it). > > 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
