DUNITD – Display UNIT NAMES Utility for MVS38J / ISPF v 2.x / Hercules(current version 0.9.00 2025-06-01) Overview Displaying of UNIT NAMES and associated devices (CUUs) can be accomplished by using the TSO CP, UNITS, installed in MVS 3.8J TK3, TK4- and TK5 distributions. Originally, UNITS installed on TK3 as a load member into SYS2.CMDLIB from tape (tsoutils.het) via JOB…
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DEDTD in MVS38J
DEDTD – Display EDT Utility for MVS38J / ISPF v 2.x / Hercules(current version 0.9.00 2025-06-01) Overview Displaying of the EDT (Eligible Device Table) can be accomplished by using the TSO CP, UNITMAP, installed in MVS 3.8J TK3, TK4- and TK5 distributions as part of the DYNAMASK package. UNITMAP sources data from EDT and UCB to display results. The EDT…
Personal DSMON in MVS38J
Overview DSMON – Personal Dataset Monitor(current version 0.9.01 2025-08-08) One day, while reviewing output from the ISPF VTOC Utility add-on, option V (=3.7.V in TK5), with my userid HLQ as the DSN search argument, a numerous set of datasets were listed! Some resulting from manual testing. Others from applications… At this juncture, I realized an alert-type process (aka personal dataset…
MVS38J Software Contributions
Software contributions to the MVS 3.8J enthusiasts and hobbyists community are listed below in chronological order with most current announcement at top. Also, current development workload in progress is listed for awareness purposes to be published and announced at a later date. This post serves as an archive of announcements. Dates are in the format MM/DD/CCYY or monthname-day-ccyy. Thanks,Larry Belmontes…
User-Wide Software in TK5
Overview Corrections applied to step 4 under Implement User-Wide level on TK5 section. Installation of third-party and/or in-house (home-grown) software is ‘normal business’ in computing platforms, regardless of technology stacks. Additionally, safekeeping of user software and/or customization after an OS upgrade is paramount. However, keeping this impact to ‘zero’ is nearly impossible! Therefore, some form of exception is necessary by…
KICKS in TK5
Overview KICKS is a transaction processing system enabling execution of CICS programs directly under TSO and provides a high level of source code compatibility with CICS. Compilers supported (not an exhaustive list) include MVT COBOL and MVS GCC. KICKS is owned and authored by Mike Noel. Complete information on this product available at http://www.kicksfortso.com/ Installing KICKS on TK5 is as…
PRTSCR in MVS 3.8J
Overview PRTSCR – ISPFv2.2 Print Screen Utility(current version 0.9.01 2025-02-08) ISPF v2.2 (ISPF-like product from Wally Mclaughlin) does not include a print screen function (i.e. PRINT, PRINT-HI) as provided by the IBM ISPF product. ISPF maintains several system Z-variables for developer use. Some Z-type variables for screen information include ZSCREENW (screen width, e.g. 80), ZSCREEND (screen depth, e.g. 24) and…
GGUESS in MVS38J
GGUESS – Number Guessing Game across technology stacks from PC BASIC to MVS 3.8J TSO / ISPF / KICKS /Hercules to HTML JavaScript(current version 0.9.00 2024-05-01) One of my first programs to write (during the late 1970’s) was a number guessing game using interactive BASIC interpreters on the Altair 8800 and TRS-80 Model I microcomputers (Intel 8080 CPU). The program…
VSI in MVS38J
Overview VSI – VSAM Information ISPF add-on for MVS38J / Hercules(current version 0.9.00 2023-11-15) VSI provides a function to display VSAM file information on one screen as an ISPF add-on. The single display screen offers a HELP screen, but has no other processing options. This original tool (VI) has been rewritten as a TSO CLIST for MVS 3.8J and ISPF…
MIIA in MVS38J
Overview MIIA – Missing in ISPF Application Panels for MVS38J / ISPF v 2.x / Hercules(current version 0.9.01 2025-03-15) ISPF 2.x (ISPF-like product from Wally Mclaughlin) provides a help (PF1) function. One use of the HELP function is to request more detail on an screen error message. When an error message is displayed, the short message is displayed on line…