Talk:DOS/360 and successors
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[edit] Miscellany/trivia
I know that it is Wikipedia policy to squash trivia sections, as requested by a recent {{trivia}} tag; but I think that sometimes they are appropriate, and I think this is an example. Both of the entries here are a) interesting enough to keep, b) out of the main discussion, and c) adjuncts to a small/stub article that IMO shouldn't be diluted with trivial asides in the main content. Perhaps they should go into footnotes, but then they would be nearly invisible. This is of course only my opinion, and it isn't the party line, but I don't think that a "miscellany" section is intrinsically something that needs to be removed/merged, particularly in a short article. I do recognize that they are a problem in mature articles; but isn't this a different situation? Trevor Hanson 07:00, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. The item about GECOS aims to refute an apparent urban myth; and the item about MS-DOS clears up an obvious source of confusion. Philcha 00:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Restructure of articles about IBM mainframe operating systems
After a big edit of MVS I concluded that the whole set of articles about IBM mainframe operating systems from System/360 onwards needed to be re-structured to minimise overlap and to make clearer the evolutionary relationships between these operating systems (notably in memory management, which is historically a major distinguishing feature). There is already some support for this proposal. Please add comments at Talk: MVS. Philcha 23:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Rewrite of Job Control Language in progress
As part of the proposed restructure of articles on IBM mainframe operating systems (above), I've rewritten Job Control Language to: cover IBM's DOS/360 and its descendants as well as OS/360 and its descendants; focus more on the facilities and flavour of the 2 JCLs rather than on details of some statement types and some of their options. Please comment in Talk: Job Control Language. I'd be particulary grateful for more info on DOS/360 and its descendants, especially after 1980 - I only used DOS JCL a handful of times, and only in the late 1970s.
The rewrite does not currently take account of Truthanado's point in Talk: Job Control Language about use of "JCL" by computer suppliers other than IBM, which may entail further restructuring of articles about JCLs. Philcha 00:41, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move and merge
I think this artice should be ranamed to DOS/360 and successors and be merged with DOS/VS, DOS/VSE, VSE/ESA. The Summary style will enable much better explanation and feature comparison between all the systems in line. It will result in a much more interesting article. For more discussion see Talk:History of IBM mainframe operating systems. To be clear, I don't think z/VSE should be merged. --Kubanczyk 14:39, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
