>From an old internal web page: HACS (Hiearchical Access Control system)is the primary security system that runs on the HoneLink systems in Portsmouth UK (ElinkNL) and Bouder USA (ElinkGB). It is propietary RACF for WW Hone/IBMLink platform and applications.
Even though I was once primary (2nd level) support for HACS (1986-88) in Boulder - it's been way too long for me to remember all it's features. It was all written in assembler .. actually the last time I coded in assembler in any serious way. Development was out of Uithoorn, Netherlands... but we maintained several modifications for US systems. Scott Rohling On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Dave Jones <d...@vsoft-software.com> wrote: > Scott, for those of us not in the loop....what is/was HACS? > > On 12/11/2010 07:42 AM, Scott Rohling wrote: > > Nope - we never distributed HACS externally. I also worked on HACS for > > HONE/IBMLINK in the 80's - putting in mods for those specific systems in > the > > US. I remember when we hit the architectural limit of HACS when we > reached > > 64K guests on a single system .. > > > > Scott Rohling > > > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 3:59 AM, James Laing - Hotmail < > > james_la...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> Been out of the game for a long time.. > >> > >> Does IBM not distribute some version of HACS .. I worked on in the 90's > ? > >> took over from Aad Van Tol .. IBM Uithoorn? An amazing programmer and > top > >> guy! > >> > >> *From:* George Henke/NYLIC <george_he...@newyorklife.com> > >> *Sent:* Friday, December 10, 2010 11:41 PM > >> *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > >> *Subject:* Re: Mandatory ESMs? > >> > >> z/VM has LE ported over from z/OS. > >> > >> So things cannot be all that bad in the world of CMS compilers. > >> > >> "I have heard people rant and rave and bellow > >> That we're done and we might as well be dead > >> But I'm only a cockeyed optimist > >> And I can't get it into my head" > >> > >> Oscar Hammerstein > >> > >> > >> > >> *David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net>* > >> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> > >> > >> 12/10/2010 05:34 PM > >> Please respond to > >> The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> > >> > >> To > >> IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > >> cc > >> Subject > >> Re: Mandatory ESMs? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> GCC for CMS [snip] > >> > >> Building a non-trivial program that involves existing libraries or code > >> that must access things like CSL services is pretty hard to do with the > CMS > >> GCC port. It's a good tool for writing apps totally from scratch, but > it's > >> not something yet that I would rely on for really large mission-critical > >> applications. The generated code is still very conservative in the > >> instructions it uses and what machine functions it can/does exploit, to > it's > >> detriment. > >> > >> I'm concerned that there's no Enterprise COBOL, no more development on > >> FORTRAN, no up to date PL/1… etc, etc. The IBM C/C++ compiler is still > >> maintained and current, but only because it's necessary for CP > development. > >> You can't order CMS VSAM any longer, so there's no direct access file > >> capability from the old compilers without directly interfacing to > assembler > >> yourself. Nothing's been touched in SQL/DS for VM for ages now. TSM is > gone. > >> 2/3 of the function of DFSMS/VM is pretty much gutted in terms of > usability > >> or functionality. ISPF/VM is ancient, and pretty much no longer > maintained > >> in any real sense (a lot has happened in ISPF since 3.2). No Java since > 1.3 > >> (although that's no real loss, IMHO). APL2 is frozen in time. Pascal is > >> frozen in time (and only still exists to service the bits of the VM TCP > >> stack that aren't in C or assembler). Ditto RXSQL. Ditto Kerberos (the > >> shipped K4 is nothing you'd want to build new apps on). Interactive > >> Debugger? DMS/CMS? All pretty much in a zombie state. OpenVM? Not much > to > >> see there either — although we finally have some reason for BFS to exist > >> with the new SSL server (not that it's all that much fun to use). > >> > >> You're pretty much left with assembler, C, C++, XEDIT, REXX and CMS > >> Pipelines as the supported application development languages on CMS. > >> That's a pretty powerful set of tooling by itself, but if you're trying > to > >> preflight applications and do development in the CMS world that is > intended > >> for other places and other uses, that's not much. 3 out of 6 aren't > widely > >> portable outside VM at all, and the other 3 are restricted to a small > number > >> of interfaces with a tiny subset of their function on other platforms. > >> > >> The writing is pretty much on the wall. I know the reason why, but it's > >> still sad. > >> > >> -- db > >> > >> > > > > -- > Dave Jones > V/Soft Software > www.vsoft-software.com > Houston, TX > 281.578.7544 >
