Conversational Monitor System

Conversational Monitor System (CMS) provides an interactive environment. It depends on the Control Program (CP) and cannot operate independently on a real machine.

Features:
 * terminal support facility
 * file system
 * minidisks
 * Shared File System (SFS)
 * Byte File System (BFS)
 * system services:
 * Library Services
 * Utility Commands
 * XEDIT
 * REXX, EXEC 2, CMS EXEC
 * Batch Facility
 * Message Repository
 * Resource Recovery Services
 * Multitasking Facilities
 * OpenExtensions Services (POSIX support)
 * REXX Sockets

Products

 * Contextual File Search/370 for VM/CMS (5664-329)
 * VM/CMS Live Parsing Editor (5788-EDE)
 * VM REXX Compiler for CMS (5664-390)
 * VM REXX Compiler for CMS - Library (5684-124)

Publications

 * Jeffrey Savit: VM/CMS: Concepts and Facilities - McGraw-Hill 1993, ISBN 0-07-054977-X
 * CMS Application Development Guide, IBM 2001, SC24-5957-00

Links

 * The Operating System Handbook: VM/CMS
 * CMS-C370VMa (vm-cms.zip)