OS/VS1

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History of IBM mainframe operating systems

IBSYS 1950s CTSS 1961 BOS/360 1965 TOS/360 1965 TSS/360 1967 MUSIC/SP 1960s MTS 1970s

DOS/360 and successors 1966 DOS/VS 1972 DOS/VSE 1980s VSE/ESA 1991 z/VSE 2005

OS/360 and successors 1966 MFT 1966 OS/VS1 1970s MVT 1967 OS/VS2R1 (SVS) 1972 MVS (OS/VS2R2) 1974 MVS/370 1970s MVS/XA 1980s MVS/ESA 1988 OS/390 1995 z/OS 2000

VM line CP-40/CMS 1967 CP-67/CMS 1967 VP/CSS 1968 VM/370 1972 VM/SP 1980 VM/ESA 1988 z/VM 2000

TPF line ACP 1967 TPF 1979 z/TPF 2000s

Unix-like on IBM mainframes UTS 1981 AIX/370 1990 AIX/ESA 1991 Linux 1999

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Operating System/Virtual Storage 1, or OS/VS1, was an IBM mainframe computer operating system designed to be run on IBM System/370 hardware. It was the successor to the System/360's operating system MFT (Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks), a variant of OS/360. OS/VS1, in comparison to its predecessor, was supporting virtual memory (then called virtual storage)^[1]

OS/VS1 was generally available during the 1970s and 1980s, and it is no longer supported by IBM.

OS/VS1 was intended to manage a medium-sized work load (for the 1970s) consisting only of batch processing applications. This was in contrast to OS/VS2 which was intended to handle larger work loads consisting of batch applications, online interactive users (using the Time Sharing Option, TSO), or a combination of both.

OS/VS1 was OS/MFT with a single virtual address space; OS/VS2 SVS was OS/MVT with a single virtual address space.

OS/VS1 used the batch job management system Job Entry Subsystem 1 (JES1).

OS/VS1 went through seven product releases. OS/VS1 Release 7 was enhanced by fourth release of the IBM OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions (BPE) product. BPE provided support for new 1980s hardware, such as 3380 DASD (disk).

The last OS/VS1 product release, OS/VS1 Basic Programming Extensions (BPE) Release 4, was announced by IBM in 1983 for general availability in March 1984 (product 5662-257, announcement letter 283-266, 15 September 1983).

IBM announced the end of functional enhancements to OS/VS1 in 1984.^[2] IBM recommended OS/VS1 installations migrate to MVS/370 or MVS/XA. To assist with the migration to MVS/XA, IBM made the VM/XA Mirgration Aid. It allowed installations to run OS/VS1 and MVS/XA simultaneously on the same machine, as guests of a third system - VM/XA. This way, the new MVS/XA system could be tested while the old production OS/VS1 system was still in use.

[edit] References

• Functional structure of IBM virtual storage operating systems, Part I: Influences of dynamic address translation on operating system technology, by M. A. Auslander and J. F. Jaffe, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 12 (1973), No 4, Page 368
• OS/VS1 Concepts and Philosophies, by T. F. Wheeler, Jr., IBM Systems Journal, Volume 13 (1974), No 3, Page 213
• The job entry subsystem of OS/VS1, by J. H. Baily, J. A. Howard, and T. J. Szczygielski, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 13 (1974), No 3, Page 253 (The OS/V1 job entry subsystem was named JES1)