z/OS is not an OS. It is a bundle of packages put together and sold by IBM as a product solution. The real OS in the bundle is still MVS clear back to the 60s or is that 50's.
Leif Rundberget MVS, VM, Linux Operating Systems Support Mainframe Network Administrator State of Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA) Division of Information Technologies (DoIT) 690 Kipling Street Lakewood, CO 80215-5844 Phone: (303) 239-4357 E-mail correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the Colorado Public Records law. It may be subject to monitoring and disclosed to third parties, including law enforcement personnel by an authorized state official. Lindy Mayfield wrote:
Is there a general consensus about what pieces or aspects of the software shipped with z/OS would be defined as the "operating
system"?
Thing is, I started thinking about what is an OS and I found myself having trouble defining it. For example, for Unix it seems
to me that the OS would be the Kernel plus any loadable kernel modules that come shipped with the OS, like drivers for I/O and so on. It probably gets fuzzy when it comes to extensions to the OS. Maybe an equivalent to z/OS would be the shipped SVC's as opposed to vendor supplied?
But for z/OS I wasn't how and where to draw the lines. Especially since z/OS comes also with a UNIX kernel. Any thoughts? I was just curious about this. Kind regards, Lindy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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