Looks like someone wrote an EXEC (or maybe a module) -- 'dt' is not a standard z/VM command.. LISTFILE DT * * to figure it out.
Scott Rohling On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:45 PM, James Hammons <jam...@cdg.ws> wrote: > dt > 13:46:20 - Wednesday 10 Aug 2011 > Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:46:20 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Walter > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 12:28 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: time used on Ready; prompt > > "D T" on a VM system? I think not! MVS (z/OS), yes - that's Display > Time, but never VM. > "Query Time" (abbreviated down to Q T) on VM, yes. And it still works. > > On VM "D T" is the abbreviation for Display (guest storage) Translated (in > hex and character form), which will be happy to display storage, translated, > as in > cp d t > R00000000 03EC2000 85D39114 0E99A630 00000000 F6 *....eLj..rw.....* > > > On some past version, D T alone would display ALL the storage (memory) you > had access to, leading to a very, very long display (usually on the OPERATOR > console, since they are used to MVS commands). I wrote a "D EXEC" for > OPERATOR's 191 disk, displaying the time and suggested that they use "Q T" > from then on. > > Mike Walter > Aon Corporation > The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On > Behalf Of R P Herrold > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:32 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: time used on Ready; prompt > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Gentry, Steve wrote: > > > Does anyone remember when or what release IBM stopped displaying the > > time used(for lack of the correct term) on the Ready; prompt? I was > > talking to an old IBM'er/VM'er and he asked about it. I had forgotten > > that it used to be displayed. Just curious when it disappeared. > > well ... on our S/370 during the Nixon administation, we had to type at the > console: > D T > to see the time and date ... so it may have come and gone ;) > > -- Russ herrold >
