Multiple Virtual Storage
Multiple Virtual Storage or MVS is a long running mainframe operating system from IBM, it is also sometimes used as a "catch-all" term for all IBM VM operating systems released prior to z/OS.
User Interfaces:
- Job Control Language (JCL)
- Time Sharing Option (TSO)
Applications:
See also: z/OS & MVS Tools
History
OS/VS2
Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2) is an operating system, upward compatible from MFT, MVT and OS/VS1. Each job or timesharing user is provided with individual 16 MB virtual address space that include the space required for system code and tables. OS/VS2 supports the System/370 Models 145, 148, 155II, 158, 165II, 168 and the 3031, 3032, and 3033 Processors.
- OS/VS2 (MVS) 3.8G
- OS/VS2 (MVS) 3.8j
MVS/SP
Multiple Virtual Storage/System Product
- MVS/SP Version 1
- Release 1
- Release 2
- Sep 1981: Release 3.0 (MVS/SP 1.3.0)
- Release 3.1
- Release 3.2
- Mar 1983: Release 3.3
- Release 3.4 (MVS/SP 1.3.4)
- Jul 1985: Release 3.5 (MVS/SP 1.3.5)
- MVS/SP Version 2
- Release 1.0 (MVS/SP 2.1.0)
- 1983: Release 1.1 (MVS/SP 2.1.1)
- Apr 1984: Release 1.2 (MVS/SP 2.1.2)
- Jul 1985: Release 1.3 (MVS/SP 2.1.3)
- MVS/SP Version 3
- Jul 1988: Release 1.0 (MVS/SP 3.1.0) - ESA/370 support
- Dec 1989: Release 1.3 (MVS/SP 3.1.3)
MVS/XA
Multiple Virtual Storage/Extended Architecture supports IBM System/370 XA (1981).
MVS/ESA
MVS Enterprise System Architecture (1985)
Publications
- Robert H. Johnson: MVS Concepts and Facilities - McGraw-Hill 1989, ISBN 0-07-032673-8
- David Shelby Kirk: The MVS Primer - QED 1992, ISBN 0-89435-399-3
- David J. Sacks: MVS Answer Book - Wiley 1994, ISBN 0-471-60821-1