article discusses support programs included in or available for OS/360 and successors. IBM categorizes some of these programs as utilities and others as service...
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OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360...
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assembly language and successors is a series of assembly languages and assemblers made for the IBM System/360 mainframe system and its successors through the...
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Utility software (redirect from Utility Programs)
in programs that do not natively support such a feature. List of DOS commands List of macOS built-in apps Support programs for OS/360 and successors List...
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The DOS/360 application programming interface was incompatible with OS/360. High level language programs written for DOS needed to be compiled and linked...
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of the System/360 line when it became apparent that OS/360 was not able to run on the smallest systems. BPS (Basic Programming support) was designed to...
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List of operating systems (redirect from List of OS)
704, 709, and 7090) OS/360 and successors on IBM S/360, S/370, and successor mainframes OS/360 (first official OS targeted for the System/360 architecture)...
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7094 on the IBM Models 85 and 165 using OS/360 - Program Number for M/85: 360C-EU-734 - Program Number for M/165: 360C-EU-740 - OS Release 20 (Third ed.)...
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customer. IMS was only available for OS/360 and its successors, but CICS was also available for DOS/360 and its successors. For many years this type of product...
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z/OS is a 64-bit operating system for IBM z/Architecture mainframes, introduced by IBM in October 2000. It derives from and is the successor to OS/390...
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provide support for overlays. The following example shows the control statements that instruct the OS/360 Linkage Editor to link an overlay program containing...
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OS/2 is a proprietary computer operating system for x86 and PowerPC based personal computers. It was initially created and developed jointly by IBM and...
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Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2); it is the successor system to the MVT option of Operating System/360. OS/VS2 (SVS) was a stopgap measure pending...
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Operating system (redirect from Desktop OS)
operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing...
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IBM mainframe (redirect from 360/370)
Operating systems for the System/360 family included OS/360 (with PCP, MFT, and MVT), BOS/360, TOS/360, and DOS/360. The System/360 later evolved into...
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interactive time-sharing environment for IBM mainframe operating systems, including OS/360 MVT, OS/VS2 (SVS), MVS, OS/390, and z/OS. In computing, time-sharing...
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Microsoft Windows (redirect from Freedows OS)
Windows 11. Its main competitors are macOS by Apple and Linux for personal computers and iPadOS and Android for tablets (c.f. Usage share of operating...
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increase in throughput. FBA is supported by VM/370 and DOS/VSE, but not MVS or successor operating systems in the OS/360 line. Processors with FICON channels...
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Job Control Language (section OS/360)
storage and access handled in large part by the operating system without the knowledge of user programs; datasets on OS/360 and its successors expose their...
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OS/390 is an IBM operating system for the System/390 IBM mainframe computers. OS/390 was introduced in late 1995 in an effort to simplify the packaging...
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15-inch dual graphics late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro models, as its successor, macOS Monterey, drops support for those models. Providing some indication...
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Disk operating system (redirect from Disc OS)
System/360 (BOS/360), Disk Operating System/360 (DOS/360) and Operating System/360 (OS/360) are standard for all but the smallest System/360 installations;...
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System call (category Application programming interfaces)
and the operating system. In most systems, system calls can only be made from userspace processes, while in some systems, OS/360 and successors for example...
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Memory management (redirect from Stack and heap)
share it. In some operating systems, e.g. Burroughs/Unisys MCP, and OS/360 and successors, memory is managed by the operating system. In other operating...
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PL/I (redirect from PLI programming language)
finally ready to ship virtual memory support in OS/360). It supported the batch programming environments and, under TSO and CMS, it could be run interactively...
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IBM System/370 (redirect from Extended Control Program Support)
announced as the successors to the System/360 family on June 30, 1970. The series mostly maintains backward compatibility with the S/360, allowing an easy...
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Core dump (section OS/360 and successors)
Solaris, and BSD systems, Mach-O in macOS, etc. In OS/360 and successors, a job may assign arbitrary data set names (DSNs) to the ddnames SYSABEND and SYSUDUMP...
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Machine-check exception (section OS/360)
set (ERDS) for successor versions that allow the installation to choose the name and for operating systems not derived from OS/360. In OS/360, the installation...
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Access Method (VSAM) Primarily DOS/360 and successors through z/VSE OS/360 and successors through z/OS TSS/360 and TSS/370 VAX-11 Record Management Services...
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