Just in case you need to recall how to do a TAPE to TAPE copy (with IEBGENER, of course) -- punch it out...
//DUPTAPE JOB (accnt),NAME,MSGLEVEL=(1 ,1)
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT-A
//SYSUT1 DD DSN=TAPE,UNIT=3400-3,VOL=SER=004000,
// DISP=OLD
//SYSUT2 DD DSN=TAPE,UNIT=3400-3,DISP=(NEW,KEEP),
// DCB=BLKSIZE=80
//SYSIN DD DUMMY
8 comments:
Man... I thought JCL stood for JUST CAN'T LEARN!!!
Almost forgot this one:
"What's a SOC4?"
"To keep your foot warm you IDIOT!!!"
Any of you guys remember your accounting information? How about jobnames? Am I the only one left who still does mainframes? Remember the IBM 360, mod 40? Running OS/MFT and HASP. I graduated to the IBM 4341 in Iwakini running MVS and ROSCOE, then Okinawa with the Amdahl 470/V8 running MVS. In Albany, we implemented MVS/XA on a 4081 and then systems chained two 4081's together and called it a "4083" (which didn't exist as far as IBM was concerned), then we implemented MVS/ESA. After I got out in 1986, IBM changed MVS to z/OS and now I'm running z/OS 1.8. Been a long time since OS/MFT!
I put the first 4341 mainframe and peripherals into two converted ‘MilSpec’ Vans [you know, like tractor trailer containers] for the Marine Corps in 1983, at Machimanato, Okinawa as the Installation Chief of the (first) Deployed Force Automated Service Center [Yes, I know we had a DFASC in Da Nang, Viet Nam, but it was built on concrete slabs, with air conditioning and dedicated power, and never MOVED anywhere. When we left Viet Nam, we blew it up in place.] to fly from Kadena Air Base to Pohang, Korea for Operation Team Spirit. Won’t go into all the details, now, just suffice it to say, after that adventure, I was hooked on personal computers, because that is when I bought my first K-Pro portable. [duel floppy, four inch ‘green’ screen, and keyboard in the ‘carry’ top.
When I got back to the states (MCB Quantico) I became the Chief of the ‘Small Systems’ Development Center, for the Marine Corps, and actually wrote the technical part of the first directive on local area networking for the Department of the Marine Corps, before I retired December 31, 1986.
I still have my IBM S/360 training books from Computer Science School in Quantico. When I was deployed to Okinawa (mid 1981), they had a 360/65 (first shipped by IBM in Nov 1965) at Butler. Our shop moved to Kinser that year (closer to Naha http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/images/camp-kinser-map1.gif). There we had a spanking new IBM 4341, running MVS. We were hoping for a S/370, but got a machine first introduced on 31 Jan 1979! So we were on the cutting edge. I worked third shift then, too. It was a weird world. That's when I learned to like black coffee. The sergeants and corporals where very controlling about who could even touch this baby. I was a tape ape who learned a lot about the Microfiche machine, too.
You can imagine my disappointment when I returned stateside to the flagship MC base -- beautiful Parris Island (which doesn't smell so beautiful at low tide on a steamy, hot day) -- and learned that I would be working on a monster which had been first released in April, 1965. That would be your IBM S/360, MOD 40 ... Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks! I was fortunate at having been chosen to move to Production Control. I remember hitting the manuals and working hard to show our Staff NCOs that they didn't make a mistake in having "promoted" me. And even today I still do some Mainframe work, Dave. I maintain some PL/1 programs for DOT financial data for the Feds. ...
RE: Bobby and a S-OC4:
Actually, Bob, an OC4 is an internal abend called a Protection Exception. An invalid address has been calculated by the program. The most probable causes are:
a.) Run-away Subscript.
b.) Invalid Index.
c.) Incorrect or Missing DD Statement.
A thorough review of program logic and JCL file specifications should be accomplished.
:>)
Cooch - I think Bob has been away from mainframes too long..... He's working on the Navy/Marine intranet everyone seems to hate.... (that's ok, Bob, the Distributed Processing people I work with are clueless too - I think it's lack of standardization - something OS / MVS / z/OS (or whatever you want to call it) has had since inception!
I remember Bobby in Operations and I/O, using one of these bad boys:
IBM Key Punch
I guess he's come a long way since then. Helping the NMCI "exploit the power of horizontal information flow" (Gen. James Jones, CMC Ret.)
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