Shmuel, Thanks. Some folk one can rely on.
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, 08 May, 2006 10:11 PM Subject: Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os? > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/07/2006 > at 07:24 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >As a matter of interest, since I managed to avoid this particular > >task, when was it no longer necessary to "generate" "OS", where "OS" > >refers to the ancestors of z/OS? > > I believe that it was the advent of MVSCP that did away with the > IOGEN, but that might have been optional at first. The full SYSGEN > went away in the same time frame. It was well into the MVS era, and > AFAIK you needed a SYSGEN for OS/VS1 until the bitter end. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html