IBM User's Guide, Thirteenth Edition

Table of Contents

Preface to the online edtion of the Guide

1 Introduction to UTCC

  • The mission of UTCC
  • A brief history of UTCC
  • UTCC organization
  • Administration
  • Network Hardware Engineering
  • Operations
  • Systems and Network Software Engineering
  • User Services
  • UTCC services
  • Documentation
  • Educational services
  • Consulting services
  • AppleShare network installation services
  • Novell network installation services
  • LISTSERV capability at UTCC
  • Public data bases
  • User software
  • User comments
  • Computing and office systems reports
  • Computer Select database on CD-ROM
  • Operations input/output assistance
  • Output delivery service
  • Hot line
  • Electronic mail directory
  • Networks at UTCC
  • Local area networks on the UTK campus and within the UT system
  • Wide area networks connecting UTK to the outside world
  • Facilities locations
  • Locations of remotes in the UT System
  • UTCC mainframe computer operating schedule
  • UTCC facilities and equipment on the UT Knoxville campus
  • Microcomputers
  • Microcomputer software
  • Workstations
  • Workstation software
  • Supercomputer center access
  • Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Illinois)
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

    • 2 Policies and Procedures

  • Applying for an account
  • Project codes and programmer numbers
  • Project code classifications
  • Cancellation of project codes
  • Project director responsibilities
  • Project administrator responsibilities
  • Research worker responsibility
  • Responsibility for user data sets
  • Credit policy
  • Acknowledgment
  • UTCC Schedule of Charges

    • 3 IBM Systems at UTCC

  • Configuration of the IBM computers
  • Hardware
  • Machine logical layout for the IBM computers
  • Operating systems
  • MVS/ESA
  • VM/HPO
  • Access methods
  • The UTCC version of the operating system
  • Application programs
  • Software available with MVS/ESA
  • Software available with VM/CMS
  • Program availability

    • 4 Timesharing on VM: CMS

  • Introduction
  • CMS accounts and userids
  • Passwords
  • Logging on to CMS
  • Logging on to CMS through the "DCA" network
  • Logging on to CMS in line mode
  • Logging on to CMS through an Ethernet terminal server
  • CMS NEWS
  • CMS files
  • XEDIT, the CMS editor
  • Printing from CMS
  • Choosing print options
  • Printing on the HP LaserJet printers
  • Printing on the IBM 3816 laser printer
  • Printing on the Imagen laser printer
  • PPRINT lets you print to a printer attached to a personal computer
  • Using a hardcopy terminal for a quick copy of a file
  • The PROFILE EXEC file
  • Getting help on CMS
  • Accessing UTCC documentation with the PRTDOC command
  • Electronic mail and other communication services
  • MAIL facility on CMS
  • Sending a file to a user on BITNET
  • Internet file transfer program (ftp)
  • Talk to a logged-on user on BITNET
  • Internet remote login: Telnet
  • Join an electronic discussion group through LISTSERV
  • Electronic conferencing on CMS
  • Using the COMMENT facility to make suggestions
  • User-defined commands (EXECs)
  • PIPE command on CMS processes data
  • Professional Office System (PROFS)
  • Kermit
  • CMS directory maintenance
  • Use VMARCHIVE to store files infrequently used
  • VM/CMS tape service available through VMTAPE
  • VMBATCH allows batch execution on CMS
  • A CMS nolog account allows shared access to data
  • Access to the MVS operating system from CMS
  • Changing your MVS password
  • Remote job entry and retrieval
  • Accessing MVS disk data sets
  • Submitting a batch job from CMS to the VAXcluster
  • Command abbreviations
  • Other VM/SP Documentation

    • 5 Software on CMS

  • Text editors and formatters, word processors
  • XEDIT
  • WordPerfect
  • SCRIPT/VS
  • Generalized Markup Language (GML)
  • General programming languages
  • IBM Vector Facility Simulator
  • IBM Assembler H
  • IBM C/370
  • VS COBOL II
  • EASYTRIEVE and EASYTRIEVE/IPF
  • VS FORTRAN
  • VS Pascal
  • PL/I Optimizing Compiler
  • SyncSort
  • Statistical and mathematical software on CMS
  • Biomedical Computer Programs, P Series (BMDP)
  • EISPACK
  • Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL)
  • The IMSL Library
  • LINPACK library
  • LISREL 7
  • MINPACK
  • MPSX
  • NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group)
  • Optimization Subroutine Library (OSL)
  • SAS
  • SPSS
  • Engineering and scientific software
  • ANSYS
  • Dynamic Simulation Language/VS
  • Graphics software on CMS
  • GDDM (Graphical Data Display Manager)
  • SAS/GRAPH
  • Expert systems shells
  • IBM's Expert System Environment (ESE)
  • Database management software
  • SQL/DS

    • 6 Timesharing on MVS: TSO/ISPF

  • Getting started on TSO
  • Changing your MVS password
  • Submitting jobs from TSO
  • Using SDSF to view held job output online from TSO
  • Password security considerations
  • Communicating with others on TSO with ISPF
  • Before you begin, establish a group NAMES data set
  • Sending messages and data sets
  • File Transfer Program (FTP) and remote login (Telnet) on MVS/TSO
  • Kermit on TSO
  • Sending files from the VMS VAXcluster to TSO
  • TSO documentation

    • 7 MVS Batch Job Setup

  • Introduction
  • Job Control Language (JCL)
  • Job Entry Subsystem 2 (JES2)
  • MVS control statements
  • JOB statement
  • ROUTE statement
  • JOBPARM statement
  • MESSAGE statement
  • NOTIFY statement
  • UTPARM statement
  • XMIT statement
  • EXEC statement
  • OUTPUT JCL statement
  • DD statement
  • Job setup restrictions
  • Job setup example
  • Cataloged procedures

    • 8 MVS Batch Job Submission and Retrieval

  • Job submission to MVS batch processing
  • MVS job scheduling and processing
  • Job class structure
  • Job restart procedures
  • Warm starts and cold starts
  • Special scheduling requests
  • Lost input/output
  • Job status
  • Output from MVS batch jobs
  • Sysout units
  • Sequence with multiple copies
  • Output for exceptional conditions
  • Output destination for printed output
  • MVS sysout transmission to a timesharing system
  • MVS JCL requirements for sysout transmission
  • Valid UTCC node names
  • Sysout data transmission units
  • UTCC network sysout limit
  • JES2 News data set considerations
  • Access to the IBM MVS batch system from the VMS VAXcluster
  • Changing your MVS password from the VAXcluster
  • Executing an MVS batch job from the VMS VAXcluster
  • Executing an MVS batch job from UNIX

    • 9 Hardcopy Output for Timesharing and Batch

  • Output to UTCC line printers
  • Non-default output requests
  • Printing on the HP LaserJet printers
  • Printing on to the Imagen laser printer
  • Printing on the IBM 3816 laser printer
  • Plotter directed output

    • 10 Magnetic Tape for Batch Jobs

  • Tape facilities on the IBM computers at SMC
  • JCL requirements for MVS batch jobs requiring tape
  • Tape identification
  • Internal identification
  • External identification
  • Alien tapes
  • Purchasing tape cartridges and tape reels
  • Labeling of alien tapes
  • Tapes from other installations
  • User responsibility for alien tapes
  • UTCC Tape Management System
  • Tape creation and retention
  • Recreate
  • DISP=MOD
  • Tape release
  • Temporary tape data sets
  • Non-labeled (NL) tapes
  • Multifile tapes
  • Password protection for library tapes
  • Checking tapes out-of-area
  • Returning out-of-area tapes
  • Dynamic saving for multi-volume tapes
  • Comments field
  • Messages and codes
  • Online tape inquiry
  • Tape utility programs
  • TAPECOPY
  • TAPELIST
  • TLABELS (tape label listing)
  • KNOWTAPE
  • DENSITY
  • UCCUPDTE
  • UCCBINQ
  • UCCGRW
  • UTCC Tape Management Catalog keywords
  • Expanded listing authority under the UTCC tape management system
  • Tapes for microfiche production
  • Documentation for tape users

    • 11 Magnetic Disk Storage on MVS

  • Disk organization
  • Disk data set location
  • Data set names
  • Virtual input/output data sets
  • Automatic release of unused disk space
  • Data set responsibility
  • System catalog
  • DSLIST
  • Disk data set restrictions
  • Controlling access to MVS disk data sets (RACF)
  • RACF report writer

    • 12 MVS Procedure Libraries

  • Private procedure libraries
  • JCL requirements for private procedure libraries
  • The UTCC procedure library: UTCC.MVS.PROCLIB
  • Cataloged procedures for programming languages
  • Compilers and assemblers
  • Stepname conventions
  • Symbolic parameters
  • DD statement conventions
  • Extensions to the language procedures
  • Other procedures in UTCC.MVS.PROCLIB

    • 13 General Programming Languages on MVS

  • IBM Assembler
  • Assembler H
  • ASSIST
  • IBM C
  • INSPECT C/370 debugger
  • VS COBOL II
  • EASYTRIEVE
  • EASYTRIEVE PLUS
  • VS FORTRAN
  • VS FORTRAN cataloged procedures
  • Compatibility with older versions of FORTRAN
  • Compiling VS FORTRAN to generate vector code
  • Using the mathematical libraries with VS FORTRAN
  • Parallel processing
  • VS FORTRAN extended addressing
  • VS FORTRAN Interactive Debug (IAD)
  • Intercompilation Analyzer (ICA)
  • Documentation
  • FORTRAN Translation Tool
  • Pascal
  • PL/I
  • The Cornell PL/C compiler
  • PL/I optimizing compiler
  • INSPECT PL/I debugger
  • RPG (Report Program Generator)
  • SPITBOL
  • Linkage editor and loader
  • Linkage editor cataloged procedures
  • Loader cataloged procedures
  • Abend-AID

    • 14 MVS Data Set Management Utilities

  • UTCC utilities
  • EZCOPY
  • HSUBMIT
  • LISTCAT
  • PDSUTIL
  • PRTGUIDE
  • IBM utilities
  • IDCAMS
  • IEBCOPY
  • IEFBR14
  • IEHLIST
  • IEHMOVE
  • IEHPROGM
  • SyncSort
  • SORT cataloged procedure

    • 15 Statistical Programs and Systems on MVS

  • SAS
  • SAS/GRAPH
  • SPSS
  • LISREL 7
  • BMDP
  • Programs from other sources

    • 16 Applications Software on MVS

  • Graphics applications
  • CalComp plotter software
  • SAS/GRAPH
  • Engineering applications
  • ABAQUS
  • Fluid Dynamics Analysis Package (FIDAP)
  • Mathematical applications
  • EISPACK
  • Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL)
  • The IMSL Library
  • LINPACK
  • MINPACK
  • MPSX
  • NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group)
  • Optimization Subroutine Library (OSL)
  • Simulation applications
  • GPSS

    • APPENDIX A: System Messages

    APPENDIX C: 3380 and 3390 Disk Drive Track Capacities

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