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Support programs for OS/360 and successors

This 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 aids; the boundaries are not always consistent or obvious. Many, but not all, of these programs match the types in utility software.

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Miscellaneous supporting programs

Program productsCOBOLPL/IData typeEBCDIC
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Dataset utilities

Virtual Storage Access MethodSequentialPartitioned datasetsISPFUtility
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System utilities

Systems programmersStandaloneASCIISupervisor CallVTOC
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Naming convention

OS/VSOS/VS2OS/VS1Print DumpSMP/E
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Dataset utilities

Scheduler utilities

System utilities

Service Aids

Miscellaneous supporting programs

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Support programs for OS/360 and successors

Nodes84
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Triples4
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

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data set program job os sequential ibm pds utility sort example records sets partitioned used output one input programs control

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SVCinstance ofTraces selected system events0.80text
I/O interruptionsinstance ofTraces selected system events0.80text
5734-SM1instance ofSupport for second-generation disk drives was provided by IBM program products0.80text
the later 5740-SM1instance ofSupport for second-generation disk drives was provided by IBM program products0.80text

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