Hi, Module DSSUMON is from product QuickTAPE from Texas Digital Systems Inc.
Jim Kyriakakis Architect jim.kyriaka...@hcl.com +61 412 359 318 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2019 7:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: what is DSSUMON? Looking into this has been a chase. The only items of interest in the load module is the assembler product code and the binder product code. .....DSSUMON . .............. 5695PMB01 .... ~..569623400 . ......... ..ε. ..DSSUMON..... .............. There are a lot of messages that start with TDS00..., such as: TDS0001I DSSUMON MONITOR INITIALIZATION COMPLETE V3.1.9 I also what look like commands: ABENDSTOPNODEVVAL3CHARALLOCNOALLOCSTATSWTORRESETRELEASEACQUIRENOTE It is the only item in the library, which has the name: SYS2.QUICKTAP.V3R1M9.APFLIB OK, went looking around for any dataset with 'QUICKTAP'. I actually found the source. The first line has: DSSUMON TITLE 'TDS DISPLAY SUPPORT SYSTEM - UCB MONITOR FOR PCSYS ' But, no copyright. I finally found doc member written by local staff many years ago because it indicates where the system was hosted and it was a long time ago that it was hosted at that location. QUICKTAPE IS A TAPE MESSAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM THAT UTILIZES LARGE MULTICOLOR DISPLAY PANELS TO INFORM TAPE OPERATORS OF PENDING TAPE MOUNTS IN A LARGE MAINFRAME TAPE ENVIRONMENT. A TYPICAL QUICKTAPE SYSTEM CONTAINS THREE SOFTWARE MODULES: DSS, GRAPHER, AND MLOG. IN ADDITION, DSSUMON IS REQUIRED FOR MVS SYSTEMS. DSS (DISPLAY SUPPORT SOFTWARE) IS A DOS-BASED PROGRAM CAPABLE OF MANAGING UP TO 256 HOST SYSTEM INPUTS CONCURRENTLY. THIS MENU-DRIVEN PROGRAM PROVIDES THE USER INTERFACE, DRIVES THE DISPLAYS AND LOGS TAPE ACTIVITY. THE GRAPHER SOFTWARE ALLOWS QUICKTAPE'S BUILT-IN REPORTS AND GRAPHS TO BE PRINTED WITHOUT INTERRUPTING TAPE OPERATIONS. THIS SOFTWARE RESIDES ON A PC OTHER THAN THE QUICKTAPE PC. QUICKTAPE LOGS ALL MOUNT REQUESTS (INCLUDING ROBOTICS), STORING THE PREVIOUS 31 DAYS. AT ANY POINT DURING THE 31 DAYS, THE LOG FILES CAN BE COPIED OVER TO WHATEVER COMPUTER HAS THE MLOG SOFTWARE. MLOG PROVIDES A SEARCH CAPABILITY SO THAT MOUNTS MEETING ANY SET OF CRITERIA CAN BE IDENTIFIED, INCLUDING: <stuff clipped here> DSSUMON RUNS ON MVS SYSTEMS, WHERE IT SCANS ALL TAPE DRIVES AND ISSUES READY MESSAGES WHEN TAPES ARE MOUNTED. IT ALSO ALLOWS MOUNTS TO BE CLEARED MANUALLY FROM A CONSOLE ON THE SYSTEM THAT ISSUED THE MOUNT. DSSUMON IS NOT REQUIRED FOR ANY OTHER HOST SYSTEM. THE VENDOR FOR QUICKTAPE IS TEXAS DIGITAL SYSTEMS (TDS): TEXAS DIGITAL SYSTEMS, INC. 400 TECHNOLOGY PARKWAY COLLEGE STATION, TX 77845-5826 (409) 693-9378 VOICE (409) 764-8650 (FAX) https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=WWW.TXDIGITAL.COM&data=02%7C01%7Cjim.kyriakakis%40HCL.COM%7Cae422bf86c2c4defe2ce08d77cffdd13%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637115310701242205&sdata=ISLmtIy2GKdAhNLq7kZe6fXf1fkjnk4dc6NixH4voYU%3D&reserved=0 sa...@txdigital.com QUICKTAPE WAS PURCHASED BY ACS AS A REPLACEMENT FOR TELEGENIX ON ALL DALLAS LPAR'S. QUICKTAPE'S STARTED TASK IS DSSUMON, AND IT REPLACES TELEGENIX'S STARTED TASK TGXARM. INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUICKTAPE ON DCUF ARE AS FOLLOWS: <stuff clipped here> INSTALLATION HISTORY: DATE LPAR VERSION INSTALLER TASK 05/30/04 DCUF 3.1.9 BPIP 664964 05/30/04 DCU0 3.1.9 BPIP 666222 Tony Thigpen Mark Jacobs wrote on 12/9/19 4:37 PM: > Browse the load module and see if there are any eye catchers/copyright > notices in it. > > Mark Jacobs > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi. > protonmail.ch%2Fpks%2Flookup%3Fop%3Dget%26search%3Dmarkjacobs%40proton > mail.com&data=02%7C01%7Cjim.kyriakakis%40HCL.COM%7Cae422bf86c2c4de > fe2ce08d77cffdd13%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C6371153 > 10701242205&sdata=fIDBE5Lic14IbFhJ3lYUkrTyq4PSUH9UjEHTgORbAqM%3D&a > mp;reserved=0 > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Monday, December 9, 2019 3:56 PM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: > >> I have an auto-started initiator running DSSUMON and I don't know >> what it is doing. Anybody know what this program does? I think it's a >> vendor program that we don't license anymore. 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