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mkk157
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| please let me know what is the full form of VS in VS COBOL, I try to search in the existing questionaire, But I fail to get it. |
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William Thompson
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| Usually "Virtual Storage" |
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mkk157
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Hi william,
R u sure about it ? I also have the same answer with me. Even for this also I did not get the confirmaiton in my search. please confirm it. |
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William Thompson
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Sorry, can't locate a manual old enough.... 
But like many other people on this forum, I was working mainframes before there was a "VS" and do remember what the letters originall meant...  |
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Bitneuker
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Morning Bill: may be this will do for TS.
VS = virtual storage = thin air for a lot of money aka SWAP and overlay. Did that at an Olivetti DE 525 (7K octal OS incuded). |
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narendra_12d
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| most propably VS stands for, VS: Visualized Source |
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William Thompson
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| narendra_12d wrote: |
| most propably VS stands for, VS: Visualized Source |
Must be a young'n.....  |
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mmwife
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I could swear I heard VS as Virtual System, as in VS1 amd VS2. But IBM sometimes leaves the acronym and changes the meaning.
The forerunner of JES3, ASP, was an acronym for Attached Support Processor until it was changed to Asyncronous Support Processor.
But for VS/COBOL I've seen it described as Virtual Storage in an IBM Pub. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Another forerunner of JESn was HASP which stood for the Houston Automatic Spooling Program (or sometimes Package). If you look around, i believe you can still see $HASP messages in JES2.
And before MVS, and MVT, and MFT, there was DOS (not DOS/VSE, just plain old DOS) and the spooling software in that environment was called POWER (which was the acronym for Priority Output Writers, Execution processors, and input Readers) - which was - you know - Jes 
And before that, we didn't need no stinking spool. Real programmers allocated devices directly. . .
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