It all started with IPF, the "thing" that was added in the VM/SP days, where you could order a naked VM, or a VM SIPO (System Installation Productivity Option ?), that had IPF as prereq, and you got quite some pre-installed stuff. Remember VMUTIL,DISKACNT, & friends these servers ware new than, WAKEUP was the heart of VMUTIL, and ACCOUNT was used by DISKACNT. Other tools where born then too: DIRMAP, SADT, DEVTYPE, FLIST, BROWSE, all part of IPF. With IPF came also panels, this section of IPF became a bit later ISPF. The IPF panels gave VM a look like TSO has now, one could indeed enter things like 1.2.3 to end up in e.g. FLIST, or x.y.z to XEDIT something... VM's command base is too easy, and customers didn't use these IPF panels. I guess that with VM/ESA IPF died, no more panels, but also no more a pre-installed VMUTIL/DISKACNT/SYSWATCH/.... The modules became CUF (CMS Utilities Feature), a billabe VM/ESA feature. Later the CUF stuff became part of the VM base, I guess with the arrival of z/VM, an incompatible change: CUF got installed on the Y-disk; in z/VM some landed on the S-disk, others on MAINT 193.
2008/10/1 Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It use to be part of the chargable product: CMS Utilities. I think CMS > Utilities became bundled in with VM (no additional charge) as of VM/ESA. > > It was chargeable in VM/SP, and forget about VM/XA. > I don't recall it in the VM/370 BSE days. > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > > >>> Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/2008 10:24 AM >>> > I have been using it for at least 10 years. I think it has been there as > long as account records has. > > Scott Rohling wrote: > > > > So I guess it's on MAINT 193 :-) Thanks to everybody for the > > replies.. I wonder how long ACCOUNT MODULE has been out there -- I > > coded up an EXEC to do the tallying some time ago -- definitely not the > > first time I found myself having reinvented a wheel :-) > > > > Thanks again! > > > > Scott Rohling > > > > -- > Stephen Frazier > Information Technology Unit > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > 3400 Martin Luther King > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > Pager: (405) 690-1828 > email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
