IBM VM/CMS documentation

Peter Coghlan cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Thu Jun 13 16:50:32 CDT 2019


I am looking for documentation of the NUCEXT CMS macro/function in IBM's
VM/SP, VM/HPO, VM/XA or VM/ESA from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s.

SC19-6209-0 "VM/SP CMS Command and Macro Reference" from September 1980 
available on bitsavers.org does not contain any reference to NUCEXT,
apparantly because it had not been developed at that time.  The next 
version of this manual that I can find on bitsavers is SC19-6209-4
"VM/SP CMS Command Reference Release 5" from December 1986, however by
that time, the macros section had been moved into a different manual
("VM/SP CMS Macro Reference" I think, which I have not been able to locate
anywhere). Other manuals also reference "VM/SP Data Areas and Control Block
Logic, Volume 2" which I have not been able to find any versions of either.

I am aware of z/VM manuals available on the IBM website which contain some
information about NUCEXT but I would prefer to use the older manuals if at
all possible as internals tend to be documented in far more detail in the
older manuals and the newer manuals contain a lot of unwanted complexity
due to the need to document newer features that I don't have any interest
in, plus the replacement and obsolesence of features I am interested in.

Does anyone have a CMS command and Macro Reference, CMS Macro Reference or
Data Areas and Control Block Logic, Volume 2 manual from the mid to 1980s
to the mid 1990s who would be willing to scan information about NUCEXT for
me?

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.


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