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

Publications

• CMS Application Development Guide, IBM 2001, SC24-5957-00

Links

• The Operating System Handbook: VM/CMS