In 1987 I worked on a variant of the 4331. The 8890. Sold by Nixdorf but manufactured by Hitachi in Israel. We ran DOS/VSE with FBA drives made by Fujitsu but rebadged as Nixdorf.
It was replaced by an IBM 9370 with 9335 FBA drives. The 2.5 MIPS of this box soon maxed out and we went back to a more conventional NAS box with Hitachi DASD. On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Michel Beaulieu <beaulieumic...@live.ca> wrote: > I was an IBM systems engineer in that time 1980-1983. > If memory serves me well: there was ECPS:VSE to run VSE/SP v1 natively on > 4331 and 4341 > > with single level storage (somewhat like a s/38 back then). > ECPS:VM was the microcode to provide VM assists to VM/SP v1. > The base code was DOS/VSE ( kind of follow on release to DOS/VS r34). > Adding VSE/Advanced Functions on top of DOS/VSE was the building blocks of > VSE/SP v1. > VSE/SP was the preferred delivery packaging. With the Other Program > Products included in SIPO tapes. > -- > Later, IBM would do one extra level of integration and build VM/SP > Express and VSE/SP Express > > tailored to the client configuration, the installation could restore a > running system using FCOPY or DDR. > > > Michel Beaulieu > > |*| > > > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Farley, Peter x23353 <peter.far...@broadridge.com> > Sent: January 17, 2018 1:16 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: VSE timeline [was: RE: VSAM usage for ancient disk models] > > On this Wikipedia page, notes #44 and #45 lead to IBM z/VSE history pages > that may tell you what you want to know. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_mainframe_ > operating_systems#DOS/VS > > 1980's VSE history: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/about/ > history1980s.html > > 1990's VSE history: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/about/ > history1990s.html > > 2000's VSE History: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/about/ > history2000s.html > [https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systemz_v17_ > zvse_images_zvselogo4_123x50.jpg]<https://www-03.ibm.com/ > systems/z/os/zvse/about/history2000s.html> > > IBM: z/VSE Operating System - History - 2000s<https://www-03.ibm.com/ > systems/z/os/zvse/about/history2000s.html> > www-03.ibm.com > Information about IBM's VSE operating system. Page describes VSE history > in the 2000s. > > > > 2010's VSE History: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zvse/about/ > history2010s.html > IBM: z/VSE Operating System - History - 2010s<https://www-03.ibm.com/ > systems/z/os/zvse/about/history2010s.html> > www-03.ibm.com > Information about IBM's VSE operating system. Page describes VSE history > in the 2010s. > > > > Each of the IBM pages has a link to the next decade's history page, so you > can start with the 1980's page and proceed to the others in sequence. > > I didn't read all the IBM pages closely, but I didn't see VSE/AF jump > out. Was that actually a version? > > ECPS:VSE was a hardware feature on the 43xx machines (I know for sure it > was on the 4361, not sure about other models). IIRC it provided microcode > assists for VSE under VM. > > HTH > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 12:33 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models > > Of course I remember the 3310, although I never used one. But your post > reminds me of a question. > > Does anybody have a VSE timeline from the original DOS/VSE and ECPS:VSE > that includes all of the packages, e.g., VSE/AF? There's a wike article on > VSE and I'd like to flesh that out, or, better, put someone up to doing so. > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf > of Farley, Peter x23353 <peter.far...@broadridge.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 11:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu > Subject: Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models > > The 3090 processor controllers ran VM/370 on 3370 (FBA) disks. I was able > to actually see one of these at a large NYC shop in the 1990's while > touring it with a friend who was the VP of Operations there. The 3270 > screen inside the 3090 box had the VM/370 screen logo. > > That made my day. I was a VM/VSE guy at the time and really resented the > way that MVS shops looked down on us, as if we were deprived, backwards > children. > > And you are right, the 3375's were 3370 boxes that emulated CKD on > physical FBA geometry. > > Anyone remember 3310's? Smaller FBA brothers of the 3370 DASD, sold with > 4331 low-end CPU's for VM/VSE usage. There was a special VSE version > created in the mid 1980's (SSX/VSE) with simplified and largely menu-driven > system generation and maintenance intended for sale with those low-end 4331 > systems. The ISV I worked at then got to play with SSX/VSE to set up our > product for menu-driven installation on one of those systems. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Dana Mitchell > Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 9:47 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models > > Current (for us 2.1) z/OS HCD still shows 3375 as a valid DASD device > type. IIRC 3375 was emulated CKD on FBA 3370 HDA's. 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